{"id":104,"date":"2004-04-28T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=104"},"modified":"2004-04-28T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T11:07:00","slug":"the-fullstop-cafe-parkhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-fullstop-cafe-parkhurst\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fullstop Cafe, Parkhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Wednesday, April 28, 2004<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Food: * * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Ambience: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>     Babe Count: * * * *<\/i>       <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve hinted generously and abundantly in my smss to Mariaan that I&#8217;m       hoping to get her naked tonight.       <\/p>\n<p>She arrives for our date looking radiant and ready to get undressed.       But I could just be projecting.       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeez, Roy,&#8221; she says. &#8220;This is so weird. I mean, I       don&#8217;t really know what to say. It&#8217;s just weird.&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me wanting to get you naked?&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, the whole Coffee-Shop Schmuck thing. I don&#8217;t really know what       to say.&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cos it might make it onto the site?&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes!!!&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relax, I&#8217;m not going to put anything incriminating onto the site.       I&#8217;m quite sensitive that way.&#8221;       <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, that&#8217;s okay,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I trust you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been some sort of odd mistaken identity thing between me and the waiter. When I arrived, I was playing with my Nokia 6600. The waiter said something along the lines of my having my entire life on the thing, and how I used it for everything. I was wondering how he could possibly come to that conclusion when he said, &#8220;I mean, I even see your phone coming up on our website statistics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hmmm,&#8221; I said,       &#8220;which website would that be?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He cuffed me gently on the arm, and smiled broadly, a kinda, &#8216;how-on-earth-could-you-FORGET!!!-which-website&#8217; kinda smile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come       on Sandy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh&#8230;&#8221; I       said, &#8220;Bad news&#8230; I&#8217;m Roy, not Sandy. But now I&#8217;ve got to know about       this website.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no!&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m so embarrassed.       Oh no!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>So I tell Mariaan about it. Our speculation is that this MUST be gay underground. I&#8217;m fairly camp, and very much in touch with my feminine side, and many gay guys mistake me for gay.<\/p>\n<p>So when Ian arrives to take her white wine order, he calls me Sandy again, but this time in jest, to show that he&#8217;s not ALL THAT embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p>He       brings the wine, and I say, &#8220;Oh no! No quick escape this time. Reveal       all!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So he digs around in his little waiter-sack, and slides a full-colour business card onto the table. No information on it, except for a funky graphic, and a web address. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artlounge.co.za\/\">http:\/\/www.artlounge.co.za<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But       what IS it?&#8221; says Mariaan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a party we&#8217;re organizing. At CarFax. Can&#8217;t give you any details,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But we&#8217;ll be putting snippets onto the site to tease people. Hope we&#8217;ll see you there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mariaan orders the haloumi salad. I go for the California chicken. I&#8217;ve been a regular at one or other of the FullStops for a good ten or so years. I don&#8217;t even recall when the first one opened in Melville, but I was there for its first night of operation. And ate there almost nightly for around four years when I lived in Brixton. And for some odd reason, I simply don&#8217;t recall the California Chicken. Which I deeply regret. Cos it&#8217;s seriously lovely food.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken breast, with mozzarella       cheese, bacon, and avocado. Hmmmm. Yummmmmmy.<\/p>\n<p>And Mariaan appears to have ordered the starvation version of supper. I&#8217;m guessing that she&#8217;s like many women&#8230; obsessed about her weight. And she&#8217;s probably read some or other John Gray type of book that suggests that it&#8217;s un-ladylike of a woman to order a decent meal, since it might give the man ideas that she&#8217;s greedy or out of control or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can tell a lot,&#8221; I       say, &#8220;about how someone is in bed by the way they eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s       picking at her food, as if she&#8217;s a touch scared of it. Maybe she thinks       it&#8217;s going to rise up and bite her?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you serious???&#8221; she       says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, think about people you know,&#8221; I say.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wow.       Never too old to learn something new,&#8221; she says. &#8220;It explains A       LOTTTTTTTT about my ex-husband. A LOT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How did he eat?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very       very anally,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, she&#8217;s in for a treat if she ever gets naked with me. I&#8217;m a very carnal eater of food. I love the stuff. I enjoy rolling it around my mouth. I&#8217;m also the slowest eater I know. And I love tasting every mouthful. I chew a lot, and really get to the flavour.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that puzzles me about myself, and ISN&#8217;T reflective of me in bed is my aversion to sticky food. I simply cannot abide getting sticky stuff on my hands or face. I have very mild obsessive compulsive traits, so I think this would be one of them.<\/p>\n<p>In bed, I LOVE       juices. All of them. But at the table, even sugar water is too sticky for       me to get on my skin.<\/p>\n<p>We talk about her breasts. They really are enormous. &#8220;I just wish men would be able to see past the breasts,&#8221; she says. &#8220;They&#8217;re really just breasts, nothing special. Just part of me. And men don&#8217;t seem to get that there&#8217;s actually a person inside here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A common complaint women have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to get naked, and we don&#8217;t have to make love,&#8221; I tell Mariaan. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we just go home to my place and cuddle a bit? And if you like, I won&#8217;t even touch your breasts.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 28, 2004 Service: * * * * Food: * * * * Ambience: * * * Babe Count: * * * * I&#8217;ve hinted generously and abundantly in my smss to Mariaan that I&#8217;m hoping to get her &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/the-fullstop-cafe-parkhurst\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fullstop Cafe, Parkhurst<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-1G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}