Restaurant people:

1) The (college-age) daughter of the (Thai) restaurant owners at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now had joined a sorority a while back, and when I ask her how that’s going, she says, “Expensive,” and she then explains that it ends up costing like $5,000 a year in totalled continual costs, which she hadn’t expected.

2) When after a day at the campus library I swing by a grocery store in the student part of town to pick up some avocados – I had run out and I needed some for my typical morning breakfast, but I didn’t have time to go to the usual grocery store near my house – I walk in and right there like two aisles in is this (early 50s) (white) couple who I know from the restaurant, who live an hour away but come through town once a week for something and so often come in to our restaurant.

“Oh, it’s our friend from the restaurant,” the wife says.

And, it turns out that their daughter has some big concert coming up and she has like four solid days of evening rehearsals, and they’re schlepping her over everyday, and they have never even been to that grocery store before, they just went there to get some shopping done while she was in rehearsal, and I say that I’ve been to that particular store before ,but otherwise it’s pretty rare that I go there, too.

“Isn’t that funny,” I was like.

And, I said that they should probably just rent an Air BnB or something and stick their daughter in it all week, she’s probably old enough and prices wouldn’t be too bad what with a lot of the students out of town, and they said that her choir teacher actually had said that she could stay with her family during those rehearsals, and maybe they would do that, for a day or two, but they weren't sure yet.

I then excused myself to go get my stuff, since I had to run that errand quick before going to meet a friend for dinner nearby.