On the Monday before last – Victoria’s typical day to go to Darlene’s for breakfast – Keith had to go into work early and wasn’t able to keep their date, so they elected to go to the diner on Tuesday. They don’t usually go on Tuesdays, because that is one of Darlene’s days off (and Victoria insists on seeing Darlene), but Keith was going to be busy most other mornings and Tuesday was the easiest, most sure-thing day of the week.
When Victoria walked in, she took her usual path to her usual seat walking along the counter, passing about 10 people seated to her right, made a right turn and continued along the counter to her seat in front of the griddle. She didn’t even notice that the first person that she passed, seated at the counter, was Darlene. Keith had to talk her into walking back to the end of the counter to see who was sitting at the head of the line. “Good morning, Victoria!” Darlene shouted down the counter to our daughter, who began grinning from ear-to-ear.
A few moments later, Darlene came over to visit with Victoria and say hello; Darlene told Victoria that she had missed Victoria not visiting the day before, so she had to come in on Tuesday to see Victoria then.
“Can you believe it?” she asked.
“Thank you,” Victoria said, before turning to Keith, seated beside her at the counter. “That’s really nice of her, right Daddy?”
Later that night, Victoria shared her story with Austin. “Austin – you won’t believe it. Guess what. Darlene came into work today special, just to see me, because she hadn’t seen me yesterday, because Daddy had to go to work.”
Without skipping a beat, Austin asked, “If that were true, how would she possibly know that you were going in today, instead of any other day this week?
Victoria looked at him, tilted her head to the right, “I don’t know. I just thought it was nice,” she replied, and proceeded to eat her dinner.