Given the choice most people who I know would prefer the company of others when dining....unless, and that's a big UNLESS, 1) they have had a shit day, possibly at work 2) are not well, mentally or physically 3) HATE people....,,,

When we lived in the States we had a wonderful dinner companion who we would look forward to meeting every week on Thursday night. I miss these dinners now as I climb back into my memory bank and think of these comfortable evenings.......it first started out as a meeting for drinks after work for the 3 of us....I would always ask for my girly cocktail to be mixed with less alchy and my friend would get the remainer of whatever spirit I was drinking that evening. The 3rd, my husband would vascilate between beer and wine so there was never a need to dilute or amp up his drink. Somehow along the way these drink meetings would linger into the dinner hour when we would start to get peckish....this lead to the ordering of a "few snack" to nibble on....then we found ourselves ordering full on entrees!!!! We quickly picked up a regular routine of meeting up every week and pouring our hearts out to each other. Sometimes there would be blissful drama to recount regarding work.....family......or our private lives. I guess that it would be the equivilant to going to weekly therapy sessions.....the regularity of the evenings would keep us sane. The regularity was something that you could rely on....something that one needed in a metropolis like ours....

I find myself trying to recreate this regularity.....and know if my heart of hearts that its not meant to be recreated ever. That is fine with me.

Tonight I have decided to invite a friend of ours, a single gentleman, who we often dine with. I think that its good for us to have others over to eat and share not only food but thoughts with as well. Food definately tastes better when shared with others.....

its amazing to sit back and think about the millions of people who are writing on their blogs right now. did everyone write in journals or in their heads before this technological phenomenon took off? and also just as amazing to think that everyone is freely sharing their daily thoughts, passions, stories, experiences.....

I have just returned from the market and have had an interesting experience. While I was perusing the produce section I noticed that the man next to me was treating himself to the "buffet" of fresh fruits and veggies. As I went to test the nectarines for ripeness I witnessed him helping himself to one of them. Well, that's one surefire way of finding out if the fruit is ripe, I thought. I tried to ignore it thinking that the poor guy is just down on his luck and starved....but I couldn't. As I left the fruit section and made my way to the veggies I found him on my right shoving handfuls of the bulk salad into his mouth and found myself repulsed at this sight. I had to find someone, a manager to report this! Just then, the produce guy walked in with a box of fresh lettuce.....I quietly relayed my dismay and alerted him to the situation. He swiftly escourted the guy out and it was all over.

As I continued with my shopping I wondered, had I deprived this poor man of his dinner, or had I done the right thing? Would prices go up for consumers like me as people like him treat the store as a buffet?!?!?! Would karma come back to haunt me?

I still cannot figure out if I did the right thing? Why is that? I think deep down that I did the right thing but for some reason I still question it....