Great story. Has me laughing now.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > > --- 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. >
