Fixing Things

Posted on July 31, 2002 in Cafes

I resolved to take a day off before I forgot about the Lake Forest Tully’s altogether. I went over to the Irvine store, where Jerry who used to be assistant manager at the Lake Forest store and told him my grief. He did some investigating on his own and reported a misunderstanding: apparently the girls were curious what I was writing about all the time and mentioned it to this smart ass. I told Jerry to just pass the message that I didn’t mind if they asked about my writing: I kind of thought they were curious. Due to some other things I’d overheard them saying about others, I was a little suspicious about what they were saying about me.

I am going back tomorrow. Hopefully we will just shake hands and I can just get back to work. I will probably start dropping by the Irvine Tully’s more often — it was a nice change and it was good to see Jerry. Jerry’s nervous because he’s getting married next week: I reassured him that terror was normal and that things would go wrong but in the end, everything would turn out just fine.

As for the loudmouth, I intend to extract one of two types of writer’s revenges: either I am going to use him as a complete loser character or I am never, ever going to write about him at all.