While I’m taking the picture of the umbrellas we’re gossiping about these two women – are they in the biz? are they food writers? are they ladies who lunch? They are so perfectly color coordinated with the restaurant, in taupe and white.
The woman in glasses walks over to me and in most urgent tones asks if I might please take a picture of her and her sister as they get together so rarely and it would mean so much to her to have this photo. ‘No problem at all, here, let’s do it now’ I say. The sister in gray tells the sister in glasses ‘just don’t grin all goofy like you always do’. Yikes.
At the end of their meal the sister in glasses leaves and the sister in gray comes over to tell a story about her sister’s husband’s illness and she wanted me to know that in fact she comes here from Texas at least once a month but she did know how her sister was suffering and thanked me for taking the picture.
Just goes to show. You can’t hope to guess.