old acquaintances
i don't care for small talk, which is probably why i don't say hi to people i knew forever ago when i see them in public. i avoid it because summarizing my last 10 (or in this case, 12) years in 5 minutes makes me feel weird. you try it.
so we're sitting at la hacienda, waiting for our check when a couple and a child are seated adjacent to us, behind kurt. the waiter gets the kid a high chair and the dad takes the regular chair to fill the space taken up by the high chair, and before the dad turns around, i think to myself, "he looks like he'd be uncomfortable here."
so he turns around to come back to the table, and he ends up being someone i went to high school with. half the reason i didn't want to approach them is cuz i already figured out what they were going to tell me; since he was seated with someone else with whom i went to high school.
they seemed to be doing well, and that was enough for me.