Teleidoscope

Tue, Apr 10, 2007

Telepathy?

Posted at 10:27 pm MDT to Travel

About a year ago I spent most weekdays between the beginning of December and the end of April here in San Jose, working at the same customer I'm currently contracting for. I also spent a week here in January this year.

When I'm at a customer site that has a decent cafeteria, I generally eat at the cafeteria. The guy who runs the grill here remembered me when I showed up in January after being away for 8 months, and yesterday he recognized me when I ordered my lunch from him (I had a chicken quesadilla).

Today was a little spooky: I was looking at the posted menu and thinking that a tuna melt sounded good, and when the chef asked for my order, he just said "Tuna melt?"

I'm amazed by his memory for faces and food preferences.

I'm pretty sure that I never ordered a tuna melt when I was here in January, but I probably had one once every week or two last spring. I was having LOTS of swallowing problems last spring, and tuna melts are hot meals that are squishy and easy to swallow... and also not huge: most restaurant and cafeteria entrees have portion sizes that are really to big for me.

I assume that other people order tuna melts, or they wouldn't be on the menu, but I suppose other people may not order tuna melts repeatedly.

Oddly enough, I'm not particularly fond of cold tuna salad sandwiches.

I seem to write a lot about the weather, and some travelling, so I'm adding Weather and Travel categories to the blog. I don't know whether I will go back and reorganize existing articles

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