
Today, I went out to dinner with my grandparents and step-cosuins at a nice (read: not terrific, but still pretty good) Italian restaurant in Lincoln Center. But this was no ordinary dinner. Well, actually it was, but I had a not so ordinary encounter with the third kind.
As I was eating, my mother, in her typical fashion, was yapping away to my step-cousin about my blogging on MacUser, and apparently, one of the waiters overheard. He asked me about it, and, in my typical shyness about being a total Mac geek addict worshiper, I quietly told him I wrote for a Mac blog. He then exclaimed, “I’m a big fan of Macs too!” I can’t say that some kind of magic connection occurred then, but I always feel kind of cool when a meet a random stranger who shares my affinity for all things Apple. As I lifted some of the veil concealing my geekiness, he asked when Leopard was coming out. Aha! This question told me two things: 1) he’s enough of a Mac geek to know about Leopard, and to refer to it as that, and 2) he’s not enough of a Mac geek to know that only two days ago Apple announced the delay of Leopard until October. When I broke the sad news to him, he said “Ah, that’s too bad. I want to get a MacBook Pro, but I was holding out for Leopard.” He then asked for what the blog I wrote for was, and I handed him my business card. The best part was then how he said he may have read it before, and will look at it tonight.
Throughout the meal, this waiter whose name I still don’t know referred to me as “the writer,” which gave my already too-large ego a boost. Still, I do acknowledge my place as a blogger, even a paid one, and not an actual journalist (though if The Jewish Week gets back to me on my idea for a piece, this might change). But hey, when you meet a Mac geek waiter who may have already read your blog, it kind of makes you feel just a little bit special.
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