Jimmy’s in Minnetonka
by G. Sax
It was all white people at Jimmy’s in Minnetonka. They were wearing various uncool shades of gray and had this year’s jacket style slung over their chairs. John Mayer played overhead. She ordered water with no ice. The other, a salad with a light pasta. They cared not for cheese. I felt the walls closing in around me.
I need to relearn how to play the game. I used to not mind mingling with white people in pseudo-fancy restaurants. Now, I burn disdainfully within, which is not healthy.
“Don’t ever settle,” goes the deep, internal mantra, but have I already? Why am I even here? Need to stay positive. Need to keep the attitude up. But I am feeling a need to check the bread crumbs I’ve scattered behind me before the squirrels eat them.
Tags: Deep Thoughts, Food & Drink, Work
April 10, 2008 1:08 am 
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