On Jun 6, 6:54*am, "jmcquown" > wrote:

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> The Rock Bottom Brewery in downtown Minneapolis was fun. *The waiter sat
> down with us and told us all his troubles... that was a little
> disconcerting. *...

I traveled around Greece by car, often stopping to eat in restaurants
where I had no common language with anybody. We were usually invited
into the kitchen to lift the covers from pots and choose by pointing.
We has some wonderful food that way, but I never knew what it was
called. One small town was different. The waiter spoke English,
French, German, Arabic, Italian. Spanish and a few other languages. He
had been a merchant sailor, and come home to help his aging mother
with her restaurant, the only one in town. He hated the small-town
life. He told us, "Everywhere people have troubles. Here, it's always
the same troubles!"

Jerry
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