Mison

Really cute event recently at ihop: our server was named Mison (Mee sone) and she started out being overly solicitous with us...irritating. She called me "beautiful young lady" ( i have noted that as i mature i am quite often referred to as young - conspiracy? condecension? attempt at flattery?). She looked at David and said "beautiful young man". hmmm.
The language thing (possibly Asian descent) probably made her search for masculine adjectives harder; but she tried.
I did have to do a bit of translation for D as he had a harder time understanding her.
When she had taken our order and walked away i said to David, "ohh my you beautiful young man, you".
During the meal a couple next to us left and Mison noted they had forgotten a cell phone. I said oh no and she grabbed it to try and catch them. When she returned, i asked if she had made it in time. She replied that they were actually driving away but stopped for a kiss and that is how she got to them. So i said "see how good kisses are?".
She sort of looked taken aback. Then she said yeah "but my husband does not think so".
This was said lightly but it appeared to be true.
D jumped in with "oh yeah kissing is really good - we do it all the time!"
She seemed genuinely impressed, saying that after 20 years of marriage, she and hubby had stopped doing that.
David and i both said together "try 40!".
Now her look was amazement. "40???!!!" Yes in March 2010 it will be 40!
When she recovered she talked more seriously and we, David and i, held a mini-counseling session right there in ihop.
As she left us i said 'you tell hubby you want to try more kissing'. David added a very philosophical statement and Mison looked to me to interpret.
I said 'i don't know! He says stuff like that.' She said "and you don't know what it means?"
"nope...but it keeps a bit of mystery alive."
She smiled and went away mumbling 'mystery, yeah, mystery.'
That was a good breakfast - started out irritatingly and ended up being cute.
I hope she took that bit of advice and that she and her husband are together, happily, at least another 20.