I Tipped An Exhausted Waitress One Hundred Dollars Until I Found Something In My Takeout Box

regulars’ favorites. She said it without performance, as a simple statement of professional competence, and the matter-of-factness of it produced in me something I was not quite prepared for, which was the specific small warmth of having been seen. Not dramatically. Not in any way that required acknowledgment. Just the fact of having been noticed, continue reading …