A Case for Getting Dinner

Make the reservations and show up on time.

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I could have called him. Or met up for coffee. Lord knows we text a lot. And email. But getting a proper meal promised more. It commanded our undivided attention.

A reservation itself forces you to divert from your regularly scheduled programming of life and show up or pay a fee — which makes the hangout instantly special. Throw in a few decades of travel adventures, work in the trenches and a friend you haven’t seen in the flesh in some time and you have a setup worthy of the My Dinner With Andre sequel: “My Dinner With Michael.”