Today a friend and I decided to go out for lunch after church. Sounds easy right? Since our church is downtown, we decided to walk the one block to Proximo's, a very popular local restaurant. So popular, in fact that it was booked solid for the afternoon, although we could wait approximately 35 minutes for seats at the bar. We decided that was too long to wait so we walked on down half a block to JK O'Donnell's. It was closed. But two buildings beyond JKs is a little Chinese restaurant called the Double Dragon. I had eaten there once before (pre-pandemic) and knew the food was good. What we didn't realize until we had walked in and placed our orders (it wasn't crowded at all, in fact we were the only ones there) was that it was carry out only. So, ok, we started thinking about where we could take our food to eat. It was a little chilly to eat outside. Twenty-five minutes later, after six other patrons had walked in and picked up the orders they had placed on line, we finally got our food. By that time we realized we could have just waited at Proximo's. Ah well. Having our food in hand we decided that, since our cars were in the church parking lot, we would go back and eat in the church dining hall. It was almost empty, coffee hour being over, and no one seemed to mind. I'm happy to report that, after all that hassle, we were able to relax and enjoy our lunches and a nice conversation. I had ordered sweet and sour pork, which came with fried rice, hot and sour soup and a fortune cookie, all for $6.75. It was enough food for lunch, supper and lunch tomorrow, worth the walk and wait I think. My fortune wasn't very encouraging. It said 'Beware of bees with honey in their mouths but stingers at the other end.' I think the fortune cookie seer was having an off day.
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