The Professor And Other Writings (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
as usual, women’s restrooms jammed, and then the waiter in Aunt Chilada’s Cantina—garish faux-Mexican with a jalapeño pepper theme—calls me “sir” when he takes our order. Fume for a second, then descend into bath of elemental shame. Why does this always happen to me? Do I really look like a guy? No doubt I will suffer the lonely death of the sexual pervert. Can’t get mad about it, though: my mother, thankfully, seems not to have heard the waiter’s mistake. She is sitting right across from me in her US Airways wheelchair, peering around inquisitively at the lissome Hispanic busboys, off-duty pilots eating lunch, and our monstrously fat fellow diners. She can’t drive anymore and hasn’t been out of her house in San Diego for quite a while, so this Santa Fe trip is a huge and somewhat nerve-racking adventure for her. Given the ear-splitting noise around us, I have been spared, though, her usual critiques of my personal appearance; restaurant clatter and the boomy voices of Fox News emanating from the big-screen TV at the bar, thank God, have clearly flooded out her hearing aids.
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