Soup of the Day

A pile of unsorted old photos was at the bottom of the box where the slides I went hunting for were. It was a surprise to discover this photo taken about 7 years ago with an old EOS at a sandwich shop on the Fresh Pond Mall which was right around the corner from BBN where I worked. There was a McDonald's across the street but the group I worked in would usually go en masse to this place for good fresh sandwiches and cheeky abuse.

The guy who ran the shop [pictured] was a real sweetheart and always had a smile and something fun to talk about. He knew all of his regular customers in spite of lunchtime being SRO daily. His mother was similarly adorable and, being Greek, would always wink at me as if she knew a special ancient wisdom mostly forgotten that my being the only woman in this unkempt group of nerds I worked with could use the friendly feminine comraderie. The guy in the kitchen behind him flipped off the camera but he was always a funny guy.I don't know how many sandwiches they made every day, but it was a rite of passage in our group to always take the new guy to lunch and goad them into ordering the small meatball sub. Seemingly innocent and delicious until one of the guys at the counter yells loudly, "Hey, guy! You order the small balls?", and then giggles when he sees him blush. I miss those guys and wonder if the place is still around and if they still close the shop for two weeks every year to take the entire family and staff on holiday to Greece.

1 Mar 2004 at 19:57, Helsinki