Making Friends Is Hard To Do...

Why is it that when two girls meet at a restaurant to eat and goof off, everyone thinks they're a "couple"? Has society slipped that far in its morals that girls are no longer allowed to be friends, but must instead have a sexual relationship to hang out? No wonder it's so hard to make friends as a single, thirty-something female! It's hard enough that other girls automatically assume you're trying to steal their boyfriend or husband when you try to become friends with them, but then when you do happen to find a friend, people stare and point at us because "we obviously must be lesbians" since we're laughing and having fun as friends. What is it with people?!

I just found out that one of the girls at work has a similar background to my own and we decided to meet for dinner at Mojitos--a delicious tapas bar in the Winthrop Center off of Bloomingdale and Providence. Neither of us had been there before and we were both excited to actually have evening plans like other "normal" people. Our server was a little cheeky at first when we told her that we had no clue what tapas are (appetizers made to share with others), but we took it in stride as she became a little more cordial throughout the evening. (Of course that was probably more to the fact we were drinking their homemade Sangria rather than an actual personality change.) My friend and I had a wonderful time talking and getting to know each other. (Our backgrounds are very similar and so were our horror stories about life.) Eventually we decided to leave since the restaurant was getting busier and our server wanted to turn her table.

As we were leaving, one of the other servers mentioned that they had a special for couples for Valentine's Day. You see what I mean?