{"id":696,"date":"2008-06-12T13:17:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/06\/lunch.html"},"modified":"2008-06-12T13:17:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T13:17:36","slug":"lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/06\/lunch.html","title":{"rendered":"Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u00a0Cindy’s Diner is a Fort Wayne institution <\/a>– one of the few, I’d dare to say. It’s a little – tiny – freestanding building on a corner, with the motto, “Feeding the world..15 people at a time.”\u00a0 I’d always been hesitant to take my crew there, since it is so crowded and I felt kind of bad about taking up almost one-third of the seats during the busy lunch hour. But we hit it early, there wasn’t much business yet, so guilt assuaged.
\nThrough the window, on the corner, a shoeshine guy, arms filled with tats, doing something with playing cards as he waited for customers. And yes, his shoes gleamed.
\n(Katies’ comment on her image: “I look all emo.” Whatever that means – I gather it’s depressed and self-pitying? Yes?)
\n(The menu: hot dogs, turkey sandwich and for me, grilled ham and cheese on rye. Having grilled ham and cheese always reminds me of my heady days working at the K-Mart in Fountain City.\u00a0 It was my great discovery, and what I had for dinner or lunch whenever I worked – yes, those were the days when K-Marts had lunch counters in the back…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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