 "People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones." --Charles Kettering I sat with my feet up in the wooden booth, studying the lunch items on the menu, while the noises of the crowd droned on around me. "I'm going to do it today," I vowed! "I'm going to pick something totally new for lunch!" My husband looked skeptically at me over his menu, but nonchalantly said, "Okay, babe. Have whatever you want." The waitress showed up, "Do you need another minute, or are you ready to order?" "You go first," I told my husband, as I considered all of the options one last time. Fresh Tuna sandwich--sounds great! Soup of the day, North Carolina Clam Chowder--yummy! But he was done and she was waiting for me. I panicked! "I'll have the Fish and Chips, please," I blurted out. "Great choice," the waitress assured me, smiling. "I'll be back with these orders shortly," she said and bustled back to the kitchen to put them in. My husband was laughing. "Shut up," I said with a smirk. "Did I say a word?" he asks, still chuckling. "What if I don't like something new? What if I get it and it's good, but I really had a taste for the fish? I know I love THAT." He stops me from going on and on, "You should get exactly what you want, babe." But that's just it! I know this restaurant well, it's my favorite one to go to at the beach and it also happens to be owned by my Uncle. I'm only at the beach maybe once a year, so my opportunities to try "everything" are limited when I'm there. I like the familiar. It's comforting, especially when it comes to food (ergo the term "comfort foods"), but really it's applicable to any number of things. And isn't life JUST like that? New things make us anxious. What if we don't like them? What if they don't work out? Of course, if we never try them, we'll never know, never find "new things" that we fall in love with and add to our "comfort" category. Okay, so almost every time I go to The Red Drum Grille & Taphouse in Nags Head, NC, I have a list of menu favorites I always order from. Someday, really, I'm going to just throw caution to the wind, pick something completely random from the menu, and dig in! And then I'll...run for Governor--or something! 
2412 South Virginia Dare Trail, Nags Head, NC 27959
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I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter. Archives
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