It was the spring of 1986.
Steve and I were excited. We were
excited about accomplishing our goals.
We both had worked hard and diligently for 3 years. Steve was near completion of his senior year
of Pharmacy School
The class of 1986 was invited to Kaufman Stadium by Marion
Labs to eat at the restaurant there. We
went along with the class and sat with Melinda and Hamid Abdanan. They were serving us at our table with
appetizers. One of the appetizers looked
suspiciously like frog legs. I picked it
up, sniffed of it to see if it had a wild game smell, started to eat it, and
stopped. Steve, “I asked. What is this?” He replied, with a smile and raised eyebrows,
“Peg legs which is part of a chicken wing”.
I did not believe him.
In the meantime our friend Melinda had a big mouthful of
chicken peg leg. “I said do not eat
that? It is frog legs!” Pluh, pluh, pluh! Melinda spit out all the food in her mouth
onto her plate. Steve and Hamid got a
really good laugh out of that one.
I still did not believe him so we called the waiter over to
our table. Holding up one of the pieces
of chicken, Steve asked, “What is this?”
The waiter, looking confused, said, “Chicken, Sir.” Steve looked at me and smiled in satisfaction.
Grrrr! Steve was
right! Deep down in my heart, I knew
Steve was telling the truth about the chicken.
I can not imagine him not telling the truth but the coy smile and raised
eyebrows threw me off.
I felt a little embarrassed that Melinda spit the chicken
out due to my warnings. The four of us
looked at each other and busted out laughing.
William Arthur Ward said, “To make mistakes is human; to
stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
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