Oh, Quanto Basta: our longtime across-the-street Italian restaurant! Over the years, we have gotten to know not only the fine folks who work there but also plenty of the regular customers who park in front of the house and are warmly greeted by the pooches.
Last year, on a summer afternoon, while we were enjoying a pleasant sit under the huge Bradford pear tree in the side yard, I saw a couple walking past your back kitchen door where the washpit is. The gentleman liked the look of your mop left drying there from the weekend cleanup and decided to take it with him.
Just as I thought I might step out and confront him, I remembered when the amazing film students from the UNC School of the Arts asked to use your empty parking lot across from the house, while they were filming here on a Sunday and Monday. You know: days that the restaurant is closed. And you hard-heartedly said: “Nope!”
You were the only nearby property owners who were unwilling to help these film students out. So I thought to myself, as the gentleman with your mop exchanged glances with me: “Enjoy your fine new mop, sir!”
It’s a neighborhood. Either we are in this together, Quanto Basta...or we are not.
No comments:
Post a Comment