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(The hell you lookin' at? - Hudson River Park, NY)
Nalini, Josh, and I decided to take advantage of a rather gorgeous Saturday and took a romp around the city. I had arrived early to stand in line for Shake Shack burgers where a couple tourists from Dallas were standing in front of me.
"Have you eaten here before?" asked the lady with big Texan hair.
"Yeah, a few times."
"So tell me, is it worth it? Waiting in line this long?"
Her accent was distracting me from her question. I wanted so badly to answer with a southern accent.
'This here line sure may be long but I'll tell ya ma'am, they got one of the best burgers in town.'
I blinked.
She must've thought I didn't speak English.
"My son lives around here and told me he's always walked by past it but never actually tried it."
"Yeah, it's pretty good," I said, "The longest I've waited was about an hour and fifteen minutes."
Aren't I just the most charming conversationalist?
Nalini and Josh made it just in time as I was approaching the front of the line. I noticed many of my friends use pizza names, names you use when ordering food.
A typical scenario may go like this:
"Can I get your name please?"
"Nalini."
"Excuse me?"
"Nalini."
"What?"
"Nalini."
"Come again?"
"Janet."
"Alrighty Janet, your order will be ready at the next window when the buzzer vibrates."
"You ever say it with a straight face?" I asked.
Usually when choosing a pizza name, you try to find something that's kinda generic and easy to spell. Sebastian (whose real name is Jae) got lucky and chose a rather cool name which was easy to spell. There's only one way to spell 'Sebastian'. Pizza names are usually reserved for people with somewhat odd names other people can't catch the first time they hear it. You'd think with a short and simple name such as mine, I wouldn't have the need for a pizza name. I can't tell you how many times the spelling of my name has been botched.
"Jina"
"Jeana"
"Gena"
"Jinah"
"Gallina"
Aw, come on! It's not that hard! Must say though, these people are rather inventive.
I overheard this one guy on the Shake Shack line go by "Spider".
Now that's just too much. Granted, it's New York, you could be named "Tuesday" and people wouldn't do so much as to turn a head but this guy didn't even bother to say it convincingly.
"Can I get your name please, sir?"
"Uh...." shrugs, "Spider."
What a douchebag.
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