TheBanyanTree: Lunch at the Portland City Grill

[Monique Colver]

Turkey bacon avocado on some kind of seed studded bread. Half is still
downstairs.


Great. Now I'm hungry.




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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com> wrote:

> What did you have for lunch, or is this a suspense novel?  :)
> -Mike
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Monique Colver
> <monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > We met a couple of Mr C's childhood friends for lunch today. Childhood,
> as
> > in pre-high school. This will be an important fact later. One of them,
> > Kenny, lives in the Portland area, but the other, Chris, was coming
> through
> > on his way back to Anchorage, after deciding Oklahoma wasn't a good fit
> for
> > him. He's a photographer, and going back to Alaska in time for a couple
> of
> > wedding shoots this summer. I've never met either either of them, which
> is
> > irrelevant to this story, but indicates how well my therapy is coming
> along
> > (being that I met new people).
> >
> > That's a different story. We'll talk about how I'm helping my therapist
> > decide what to do with his life later.
> >
> > By the time we got there, Chris and Kenny had seats in the bar next to
> the
> > windows, with a view of Portland. Thirty stories up means it's quite a
> > view, and I'd go for that alone, especially on a day like today, when the
> > sun is out and you can see from miles. One of these days I'll have to
> take
> > sash there for a lunch time celebration, but it must be on a clear sunny
> > day.
> >
> > Our waitress was in her 20's, a nice mix of friendly and ditzy. Or maybe
> > it's just the age.
> >
> > As the boys talked I admired the view, and tried not tell Chris he was
> dumb
> > for saying he had to pay $5,000 to become an LLC. I try to refrain from
> > insulting people when we're out socially. Both Chris and Kenny have
> LLC's,
> > which is apparently the thing to do in one's thirties.
> >
> > At one point Andrew mentioned something about David, a friend from high
> > school. Chris and Kenny went to a different high school, since Andrew's
> dad
> > had moved the family to a better part of town, so they don't know David.
> > Chris said, "Oh, the Asian guy, right?"
> >
> > I found this hilarious.
> >
> > Yes. David is Chinese.
> >
> > I found this hilarious because Chris is Korean.
> >
> > Yeah, the Asian guy.
> >
> > There was something in the way he said it, as if Asian was meant to
> > encompass a subset of something. Or other.
> >
> > I don't know, and I didn't ask, and Andrew said, "Right."
> >
> > We laughed about it later.
> >
> > Kenny left first, because he had to get back to work, which was a block
> > away. (If I were a block away from the Portland City Grill I'd be eating
> up
> > there more often.)
> >
> > The three of us talked a bit more, and when we left Chris said he was
> going
> > to visit some breweries, brewery visiting being the in thing to do around
> > here. But he didn't leave . . . instead, he sidled up to the bar and
> > ordered a beer, preparing to give the waitress/bartender his full spiel.
> > ("I'm a photographer, I shoot fashion models . . . " which he does,
> > sometimes, but mostly he doesn't. Mostly he does less glamorous
> > photography.)
> >
> > If you've never seen How I Met Your Mother, this won't make sense, but as
> > we left, Andrew said to me, "He's just like Barney," the perpetual sleazy
> > player.
> >
> > Kenny's really nice though.
> >
> >
> > M
> > (I'm jumping back on the horse and am out of practice, so this is what
> you
> > get.)
> >
>