So last night, my wife and I are at a (great) Japanese place in a (not so great) part of town.

We get seated, start chatting.

Shortly after, our waitress comes by with our drinks (I got a miso mulled wine … and … wow 🍷🤌).

But the second the waitress steps away from the table, I get the shock of a lifetime.

A (presumably) homeless man (presumably crazed out on some illicit substance) slams his face — cheek and eye and all — against the glass window just above my wife’s head.

He then looks me dead in the eyes and does that two-finger eye pointing thing just like Robert DeNiro in Meet the Fockers.

The entire restaurant falls silent and watches the scene play out between us.

Then, the man runs to the next window, flips me off with both hands, runs in a small circle and takes off down the street.

IT WAS SO WEIRD.

And … honestly … it’s not the first time something weird has happened to me in this restaurant.

A few years ago, I applied for an email copywriter position for a company in town.

I had three interviews with the cofounders, and although things seemed to be going well, I could tell that the interviews weren’t my best.

So one day, they just … ghosted me. 👻

On the day in question, I actually reached out to the last person I interviewed with to see if they had any update on the role.

No response.

That very same day, I go out for drinks at this exact Japanese restaurant, and as I walk past the bar, I see the two cofounders — the two guys that JUST interviewed me! — having drinks.

We made awkward eye contact, I shuffled past them, and basically forgot about the entire thing.

Until last night.

Good I remembered, though, because this tells me two things.

1. From now on, I can reasonably expect weird things to happen at this Japanese restaurant.

2. I wish I had this blog post all those years ago when I was applying for that email copywriting job. Would’ve made my life way easier.

(Also … man, if those two cofounders could see me now. Lol.)

David Patrick

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