Spotlight: lunch

Isn't lunchtime the best? Taking a brief respite from the madness of phones, meetings, filing, dealmaking, faxes, and the like to sit down to what one hopes will be a fantastic meal and a well earned break. Sadly, this honor is not something normally bestowed on me during my typical workday.

But not today!

Today the illustrious Devo 4 (my squad of hard-working development team members) left the phones on voicemail as the bosses were all out to lunch, and took a field trip in the runner-mobile.

While we were initially startled by the shining orb in the sky (which we later learned goes by the name 'sun'), our eyes began to adjust to the light and we squinted around in search of the restaurant. Once we got there, the normally fearless Devo 4 were uncharacteristically disoriented.

"is that a menu?"
"wait, what's going on here?"
"seriously, I don't understand, do we order here? is that tuna?"

After the initial confusion, I tried to calm one member of the posse down by pointing him in the direction of his familiar friend and old standby, the turkey sandwich. This backfired.

"What? I don't want you guys giving me crap because 'ohh, Jeff's having a turkey sandwich: a-gain!' I'm getting the pasta salad." Well, imagine his surprise when he found out the pasta salad contained his mortal enemy, blue cheese. That's when it pays to be loyal to the friends who have been loyal to you. Lesson learned.

So, we sat out on the patio, with all the suits that work in the area, and overall enjoyed a perfectly lovely lunch. In fact, we took to it so naturally that the time literally flew by, and it was soon time to race back to the office before our bosses discovered we had breached the borders of the compound. Sigh. Until next time, elusive lunch...