On Saturday night we attended a university dinner held in honor of departing faculty and in particular to honor our retiring Provost Tim Sullivan. The food was great, the speeches very touching, and the site – J W Marriott – beautiful and quite exclusive.
One slightly odd detail obscured the whole evening though. Quite early on, when we were being served by a sea of waiters with bottles of wine and water in their hands, one waiter in particular singled Courtney out, and after having poured him his choice of wine, leaned over and whispered in Courtney’s ear “I will keep coming back to fill you up!” The waiter had a very odd appearance – Nubian of origin but with some very strange features - and kept throughout the night, in addition to filling Courtney’s glass up after practically each sip, ignoring my glass entirely, all the while stealing angry and jealous glances at me. Everybody at our table found the whole affair quite amusing, and naturally neither Courtney nor I felt threatened in any way, but it was still a very bizarre experience. When we left, the odd waiter made a point out of coming up to Courtney to say that it had been a pleasure serving him and bowed good bye.
What in the world would you make of this?
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