Questions! They're not so bad, right?

My friend and I went to one of our favorite restaurants today. We've gone there maybe 10-15 times altogether, if that, but we've come to recognize the staff who generally works the hours we appear. We sat down and the server Sunny handed us the menus, to which I sheepishly said we didn't need it, and she stopped and looked at us.

"I remember you." And rattled off the exact thing we always order. We agreed and thanked her and things were dandy.

When leaving later:

me: I think it's funny that so many people seem to remember us-- me-- at these restaurants even when we don't go there for long periods of time. That happened at ABC with Kathy, remember? I'd seriously only gone there 3 times with several months in between and she still remembered exactly what I wanted.
A: Yeah. And your girlfriend at whatsitplace.
me: That's right! XYZ! Jesus, I hadn't been there many times either and there were huge gaps of months in between there, too, but that one time I sat down and said I'd get the Happy Farmer she was all, "What, not the mock duck cashew dish?"
A: I remember that.
me: *pause* I think it must be because I'm such a ridiculous tipper. And I always get the same thing.
A: That, and the first time you go anywhere you ask about 7,000 questions about the specifics of any dish you see on the menu.
me: *laugh* That's... true. I don't think there's any place I've been where I haven't asked at least one question.


That conversation made me laugh even more realizing that I'd recently asked a bunch of questions about the specifics of requirements for an anthology I'm considering submitting to, and I asked another zillion questions of another person who recently asked me for help on something, and generally speaking if I'm talking for any length of time I'm probably asking at least one to twelve questions along the way.

Clarification! I must have it!

In retrospect, that makes me laugh because sometimes that shit drove Sonny insane when we were writing ICoS XD He'd write some one liner and I'd be following it up with five, "So by that does it mean A or B or C and if C then does that mean also D or E?"

It's also that inability to take things at face value that make me research the hell out of anything that I've determined I might write about. And that made me figure out stupid details like exactly what the moon will be like in the sky on February 7, 2023 in China.

Mostly, I just find it to be a ridiculous and amusing quirk about myself, and it amuses me even more to realize how appropriate this quote from ICoS (Fade 20) ends up being to my life too:

"You ask a lot of questions," Adam observed.

"I'm a curious person," Boyd replied with a shrug.

Adam's mouth quirked slightly although it wasn't really a smile.

Speaking of ICoS, it's looking more likely I will write a Tayla and Liani story after all, seeing as I wrote about 5,000 words in the start of a potential novella or novel yesterday.