LUNCH

It seems that many of my retired friends spend a good deal of time meeting for lunch. After all, it’s a pastime many ladies enjoy. Although I also like going out for lunch and have the time to do so since I retired, I rarely do. However, in the last 11 days I’ve had lunch with nine different friends on five different days.

The lunch to celebrate my birthday with three neighbors is an annual tradition that we share for each of our birthdays. Another lunch was to spend a little time together with a friend before she leaves on a three-month stay in Florida. But there was really no special occasion for the additional lunch dates. By mere chance I just happened to chat on the phone with the women in the last couple of weeks and we simply decided to get together. The three other women are people whose company I very much enjoy, but seldom have a chance to see them. And so I was glad we met for lunch.

Needless to say we lingered over lunch for a couple hours, happily conversing and enjoying the good food. Often when I eat in a restaurant, I carry part of my meal home. But, I’m afraid that during the leisure lunches, I kept munching on the food in front of me until I had eaten it all. Oh well, good thing I live alone. I certainly wasn’t hungry at dinner time and so it wasn’t until after 8:00 that I finally had a small bite to eat.

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