YES! The seed took root!

[pegkerr]

I had run out of frozen lunches to take to work and so had to resort to buying my lunch out. Considering (among other things) this huge car repair bill, I was most reluctant to spend the money, and so my first impulse was to stop at Subway, which offers the cheapest lunch I know near my work place, just over three bucks. But I really, really wanted a hamburger.

So I chose to go to the establishment next door, the Rainbow Rooster. This is the gay-owned restaurant I mentioned in my recent entry about a coworker's (I thought rather unfortunate) comments about how she never intended to visit it. And so it was with surprise and immense satisfaction that I saw her in there with another coworker, eating lunch.

I stopped by her table after my meal and asked her how she liked it. "Oh, very much," she said. "I had the meatloaf special, and it was really good. I couldn't even finish it."

"It was very good," chimed in the other woman with her.

"I tried it on your recommendation," went on she-who-must-not-be named. "And you were right. It's really a nice place. So big and open. We'll have to get other people to eat here, too."

I managed to restrain myself from pumping my fist in the air and giving a victory yell.

At least until I got out of the restaurant.