I’ve been thinking about my time working at Superstars in Fairlane mall when I was in high school. I’ve been thinking about how excited I was to see the REAL Santa as I walked around with Don. That might’ve been the day that we stopped and had lunch at a Coney Island together.
I thought about that lunch at Coney Island today when Sean came home from the second day of taking his finals. He got home a few minutes before 11. Once my Mom and I were finished with our morning routine (we got a late start today), Sean asked me if I wanted him to make me some lunch. I nodded and he asked what I would like to eat.
My answer is what made me think of that lunch at Coney Island. I wanted grilled cheese. I knew that I wanted something warm to eat and I also knew that we did not have a lot of groceries at my house! So, grilled cheese it was!
That lunch I had with Don, I also ordered grilled cheese. Sean made the grill cheese and I told him to cut it into nine pieces. When I was in high school, I had a meeting with Mr. Flint during lunch and he ate his sandwich. As we talked, I had to interject that he took really big bites of his sandwich! He laughed and told me that it takes nine bite to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I’m not sure why I told Sean to cut it into nine pieces because I think Mr. Flint was wrong! It takes MORE than nine bites to eat!
Sean made a really good looking grilled cheese sandwich! I only pretty recently told him about my lunch with Don at Fairlane. It was during that lunch that I ate my grilled cheese sandwich that I ordered with a knife and fork. Don had almost a mobster way of talking and it was toward the end of our lunch that he told me, “Now Jen, i’ve seen some crazy sh*t in my life…” to which I looked at him intently and waited for the next thing he was going to say, “But, I have NEVER seen anybody eat a grilled cheese sandwich with a fork and a knife!”
I was 16 when Don saw me eat that grilled cheese sandwich with a fork and knife; and now, 20 years later, I STILL eat my grilled cheese with a fork and knife! I am not sure that it is just an MS thing; I’ve never liked my fingers feeling greasy after eating a grilled cheese sandwich so that is why I eat it with a fork and knife. But, every time I do which isn’t very often I think of Don saying that in that Coney Island and I smile!