I will tell you a story. After work I took the skyway passage from the metro station and walked through a parking garage to the mall. Then after I’d walked the length of the mall I realized I’d forgotten a coupon from home, so I went to another parking garage where we’d left our car, drove home, got the coupon, and parked at the mall. Then my phone died so I returned home, charged the phone, and heard from Viet, who was waiting for me at the mall. I arrived at the mall for the third time and we had dinner at the new Nando’s Peri-Peri, using our coupon for a free entree that had arrived in the mail. Most of the flavor is imparted by the orange hot sauce that is smothered over the entire surface area of the chicken breast. It hurts your tongue and it is good.

(Photo: Model train exhibit at Brookside Gardens, 2013.)

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