Being Remembered ...

Last night, well more like late evening to be more specific, my buddy Adrian called me. He was having his dinner (I'm guessing) at this restaurant called Sri Paandi which we both used to frequent quite a long time ago. He still does, but I've rarely been there much nowadays. The conversation went like this,

'Say buddy, I'm at Sri Paandi's and Pete asked for you.'

In a shocked voice I went,

'Seriously? He actually asked for me?'

'Yeah buddy, he actually asked for you' was Adrian's reply.

Now before you all go wondering who the heck is Pete, let me tell you that he's one of the waiters from the restaurant. And his name isn't really Pete, we have absolutely no idea what his real name is ... LOL!

We actually gave him that name. In fact we practically named almost all the waiters at this particular restaurant ... hehehe ... This naming thing all happened one fine day a couple of years ago. Like I mentioned earlier, we both used to patronize this restaurant a lot and when I say a lot I mean by every day! And we used to sit there for hours on end at times that all the waiters including the owner of the place knew us well.

All the waiters that this restaurant, which is a Indian restaurant specializing in banana leaf rice and stuff like that hired an all Indian crew of waiters and I really mean all Indian cos they were actually from India. And they're all pretty nice people and after awhile they even knew what we'd be ordering (well, mainly me, cos I ate the same food everytime we went there).

So one day, during one of our very normal hang out sessions at this restaurant, we decided to start naming the waiters with their characters or appearance just for the fun of it. Little did we realize that the names we gave them stuck with them (of course they didn't know we had names for them ... hehehe ...).

Over time we've manged to name them such names as Eddie Murphy (cos he looked so much like Eddie Murpy), Pistol Pete (I can't really remember why we named him Pistol Pete), Sponge Bob Square Pants (well, if you've seen Sponge Bob and if you've seen this waiter, you'll know why ... LOL!), Crackpot Joe (after the harrowing experience my buddy put him through, he still claims it was me, this guy ended up a little loony), Bill man (cos he was in charge of billing), Friar Tuck (the guy who was responsible for frying the chicken and stuff), Water boy (for obvious reasons) and a few more I've totally forgotten their 'names' ... LOL!

The sad thing is I haven't been there for quite a while now and when my buddy called yesterday to tell me Pete was asking for me, you can imagine how surprised I was that he actually even remembered me. I told my wife about it and she said that I must call my buddy and arrange to go there one of these weekends for breakfast or something which I will definitely do but not this weekend cos I have something special cooked up for the kids at home :) It's good to be remember by someone though and thanks for calling and letting me know buddy, that sure made my night :)