I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

When I worked across town for 5 years, I made lots of friends.  Summer regulars.  Winter regulars.  There we so many people I met over the years. 

I have reconnected with many of these people. 

There are three straight couples that I have not seen since I started. 

One couple was an older couple who lived in Mass.  They used to own a liquor store and had retired.  They came in every few months and were so sweet.   They once heard me say, we were having a wedding and the next time they came, they brought me very expensive bottle of bubbles.  They handed it to me and said congratulation!  They said that they’d heard me say I was having a wedding and had assumed that Adam and I were getting married.  I laughed and said no, the restaurant was hosting a wedding.  We all laughed and they told me to keep the bottle.  Adam and I had a great chuckle when we popped the cork, weeks later.

Another straight couple, were also from Mass.  I met them when I was managing the hotel as well.  They had come to visit, after the husband had had a heart attack at 53.  His doctor had told him to learn to relax.  So every few weeks they’d come up and visit, stay in the hotel and eat dinner with us.  They were so sweet.  They’d usually come without the kids but sometimes it was the whole family.  I have not seen them since I went back to work down there.

The last was a straight couple who started coming in when she rented a winter rental to use to write her dissertation.  She would sometimes come in every so often have a glass of wine and dinner.  Then when her husband came up from Boston, they’d come in together.  I watched her write, finish and defend her dissertation.  They were always so genuinely sweet to me.

So imagine my surprise when I looked up today to discover they were standing in my lobby.  It was their first time at the restaurant.  They were so kind and friends.  I gave them both big hugs and told them I’d been hoping for a year that they would come in.  She now teaches in Boston, they still live there but they’d eventually bought a summer home here.  They looked great.  We talked and talked.

I led them to their table, checked on them throughout and then bought them dessert.  At the end of the meal we all took a selfie and they asked for my number so we didn’t lose touch again.  When I sat down at the end of my shift I had four or five texts thanking me, with photos of the food and the selfie as well.

It was so great to see them and reconnect.  It truly made my night.