I have never before gone more than a year without dining in a restaurant since perhaps I was an infant.
Some of my earliest memories are with my parents enjoying some fancy dinner somewhere.
I don’t know that I saw either of them prepare a meal inside the central air conditioning of the family home. That sort of stuff was left to the domestic staff. Yea, I grew up in some pretty serious luxury. However, I sort of turned my back on that when I left for college. I wanted to study a passion and see where it led as far as a career. And my parents weren’t happy with that. I ended up paying for college myself. Part of that meant that I lived inside the dorm with that intense radiant heating all the way through college. But that was okay with me because I was being my own person for the first time in my life. And that sort of stuck. However, one of the things that I do find an affinity for from that life is fine dining. When the pandemic hit, my wife and I were stuck inside the quality heating and air of our home like so many other people. And that meant that we were going out to dinner at all. This was somewhat of a tough thing to do without believe it or not. The first date night that we had once we were vaccinated and felt comfortable to dine out was a disaster. And it was all due to the fact that this awesome little restaurant didn’t have proper commercial HVAC equipment. It was such a bummer and we haven’t been back. In fact, I’m not sure their doors are even open any longer. Not surprising.