Robbie Williams Instagram – ‘’Sir, would you like some hypervigilance with your Edemame?’’
I play a fun game at restaurants that only I know im playing. I survey the tables on the way in. I clock who clocks me and I make
a calculated guess *usually with stunning accuracy* who’s gonna try and take a sneaky pic. Sometimes it’s an overwhelming
amount and im completely outgunned. But most of the time it’s 3 or 4 …
So, I sit down and in the next 5 minutes, people are gonna try and figure out how to take a pic without me catching them in the act. This is when my game is afoot.
Normally one will do the ‘’im just taking a photo of my friend’’ thing.Whilst aiming directly over their left-hand shoulder straight into my eye line. At this point, I will drop my tablecloth and spend a while picking it up. I reemerge to normal seating position to see them looking at the shot they have just taken with a quizzical expression on their face. Thinking they were just unlucky they wait for their opportunity to do it again. When they next raise their camera I will bury my head into Ayda’s neck making it look like we’re having an intimate moment. The best shot they will get is the side of a lady’s head and some dude’s shoulder. Once again I return to watch them out of the corner of my eye, Staring at their phone screen and beginning to get really frustrated. Next, I will pretend to cough into both hands, bow my head into said hands and pretend im scratching my scalp. They will then get a pic of some dude and the top of his head. This can go on and on. All the time they don’t know that I know. And they get more and more wound up.I can do this whilst holding a conversation with my friends and they are none the wiser. Of course, sometimes I lose this game and someone will get a perfect shot. But MOST of the time. I win.
If there are a lot of people taking shots I can end up being a bit like Neo from The Matrix. Then the game is to avoid the shot AND not make the people im with think im being weird. It’s a great game for someone who doesn’t like going out for food anyway. Restaurants are for grown-ups.
Jack Dawkins
namaste ❤️🙏 | Posted on 06/Nov/2023 14:49:23



