--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson wrote: > > I know this is extremely trivial, but do you remember what was > the best or most fun meal you ever had on a TM course or at a > TM facility?
I've posted this before--maybe even twice--but it's such a good story I'm going to haul it out again. It's not about the meal itself but what happened during the meal, so I figure it's close enough to what you asked about: I was staying at the TM facility in Asbury Park some years back; it was a pretty fancy hotel that the TMO had bought and was running *as* a hotel for regular guests, as well as housing various TM administrative folks and course participants. The TMers' food, all vegetarian, was prepared in the downstairs kitchen, but there was a bigger kitchen upstairs that cooked for the guests. One night I was sitting at a table of TM-lifers during dinner. The hotel was hosting a big Bar Mitzvah bash upstairs. One of the MA-V technicians, a big galoot of a guy with a heart of gold who regarded the blissninnies with good-humored bepuzzlement, had gone up to the guest kitchen to see if he could cadge some real food from one of the cooking staff, a friend of his. We were sitting there eating our lentils and rice and curried cauliflower when he strolled back into the dining room bearing a big platter. He came up to the table and set down the platter, on which rested a huge hunk of very rare steak. You'd have thought there was a severed human hand on the platter. The TM-lifers all gasped audibly, and one of the more delicate of the ladies actually gave out a little shriek. (This was totally spontaneous; these folks probably hadn't even laid eyes on a piece of meat for years, and that bloody slab must have been a shocking sight.) The poor MA-V tech stared at the horrified faces, bewildered. Then everybody started laughing, practically falling out of their chairs. We laughed until we cried--including the MA-V guy, once he realized folks weren't laughing at *him* but at their own bizarre reaction to his dinner. It was one of the best group laughs I've ever had the pleasure to participate in.
