Monday Lunch

Every Monday, I take myself out for lunch to Azteca - a local Mexican chain based on Jalisco style of cooking.  It gives me a chance to just be around people for a change - listen to life going on for others.  Okay, and eat some good Mexican food as well!

Usually, the place is deserted on Mondays.  Not sure why people do not seem to go out for lunch on Monday's, but it gives me a chance to chat with a few of the waiters I have come to know well across the past five years.  But, this Monday was an utter zoo!  Every table taken!  So, I got to listen in on some conversations that were interesting ...

From the table next to my booth, I learned about the specials current at Wal-Mart.  Good to know but I do not shop at China's number one customer (officially yeah!).  And really I could not follow along with the conversation delving into where the best crack was available from.  Really?  I do not "get" the drug problem in this country, nor the desire to detach from reality.  I wondered if their choice of crack came from China as well ... 

Behind me were two men discussing the medical billing field.  They were creating some form of middle man effort to do billings for a doctor I use.  They seem to think that by increasing patient costs by 10%, would yield them a living income and be of value to the doctors they are lining up.  And they are hiring their spouses and children to pad the payroll it seems.  Do you ever get the urge to get up and just *&*&&$ slap someone at another table?  I sure did.  But, my wrists still hurt from surgery last week.  But, I can dream :)

I learned that my favorite waitress was not in because it was her birthday.  Must be getting mighty close to 30 for her.  But, her stand in is a new girl from Jalisco and her English is still in the learning stage.  LOL!  Not that I am complaining, this darn language took me perhaps 15 years to conquer!  And written English only in the past 9 years!  Another good reason to have lost my earlier blogs!  How embarrassing they must have been!

The founder for the chain's daughter was in one of my youth groups back in the early 1980's.  "My Boys" had nicknamed her Angel, as in Death Angel because she was the death of all fragile male egos.  LOL.  I like seeing my kids from decades ago and know they are doing well.  She married a pretty nice man, Christian, and we have had some great conversations on slow days.  One of the better Christian males I have observed through the years.

Well time to get my morning going!