Somebody I Met While Eating Breakfast

My wife and I are attempting to eat better these days, meaning eating things that are better for us. But we walked into this diner and were ambushed. Unable to resist the tacky decor and the condiments which had obviously been there since the founding of the restaurant, and because everybody knows you don't order the cobb salad in a place like this, we went for the obvious choice: chicken-fried steak.

I asked the waiter if I could take his picture and he immediately froze in his tracks. The restaurant was one of those family affair types and his mom, the manager, shouted from across the room that she'd been trying to get a picture of him for 10 years and he had never let her. I snapped a couple. A few minutes later he came over to the table and whispered to us apologetically that having his picture taken "makes him really nervous."

And, so, the first in a Zippy The Fish sometime series "Somebody I Met While..."