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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
My Vegan dream about Oprah! What does it mean?
I literally just woke up from a dream about Oprah that I have to write down before I forget.
It starts with me on stage at the Oprah show, and I'm a guest - or what I don't know. She tells the audience (and Gayle who is on stage too) that there is this restaurant called Trattoire that is so amazing. It's in the oddest place and everyone should order the "Do Nothing" plate. Gayle says the last time she went there she got it and it was amazing. She wouldn't tell us what it meant, she just wanted the camera crew to follow us there.
We (the 3 of us, Oprah, Me and Gayle) are beamed to the restaurant's location. We are walking down a corridor and onto a standing escalator. That's the best way to describe it. Have you ever seen Toy Soldiers, anyway it descends vertically, not diagonally. There is a host stand, we breeze past that and sit down. The whole place is dark red wood, the table is glass and the owner walks us to the table and takes our order.
Apparently, you're not allowed to wear shoes at the table because the owner takes your order under the table, while you're both lying down. By the way, we are also eating with 3 other women, triplets and the owner looks just like them. While she's under the table she says, 'Oh you have to put your shoes in the alleyway - just go ask the host'. I apologize and walk over to the host, I keep looking back because I want them to explain the 'Do Nothing Platter' before they order it for me because I don't know if its vegan or not. I feel that Oprah knows I'm vegan and will not let them feed me anything unsavory.
I walk over to the host stand and take off my shoes, then realize I'm wearing two different kinds of shoes, one short boot and one long boot. I'm also wearing a long skirt which hid this from me until now. I ask the hostess for the alleyway and she points upstairs, so I take the strange escalator back upstairs. I walk down the corridor and reach outside very quickly. Then I realize we are in an apartment building of a slum, there are people outside on the sidewalk waiting to catch the bus. Lots of people. They are freezing cold, I have my shoes off and my skirt just got really short so the breeze is flying up to my - you know wheres.
I keep looking for this alleyway, but can't find it. I ask a guy that's walking by where is the alleyway. He said the only one is called Alleyway #13, and its 25 blocks that way. I look at him like, No! There has to be another one. I told him the restaurant told me to put my shoes there. He was shocked to know there was a fancy restaurant in this slummy building. So I took him there. I walked up to the host and said, ":Listen, there is no alleyway, you're holding my shoes and that's it." She didn't contest that. I take his hand and walk him back over to Oprah's table, and hopefully he can eat with us.
As we walk to Oprah's table, her table gets farther and farther away. When I stop walking it stays put. I try a few more times, then I realize I'm not allowed back there with my new guest. Since I don't know any of them, and I don't like how they owner treated me, I tell the guy let's eat by ourselves.
The hostess walks us to a new table, smaller but quiet in the corner, the glass table has a cloth on it, a candle, and it cozier. He smiles big because he didn't believe there was a restaurant here. The hostess takes our order and asks us if we want the 'Do Nothing Plate'. I said, "What is that finally?" She said, Gayle is eating it and its basically a sample of all the food being made in the kitchen. You get a couple tablespoons of everything from your guests plate, and when you're done with that, another plate full of samples from another table, until you say stop. I thought that was sick!
I told her me and the guest were vegan, I didn't even ask him, and she said there is a Do Nothing platter just for vegans, but we just get samples prepared just for us. We thought that was cool ... As soon as the plate arrived, which was the size of a fruit and vegetable platter - I woke up ...
What the hell does it mean? If you read all this, please decode it for me ... :)
It starts with me on stage at the Oprah show, and I'm a guest - or what I don't know. She tells the audience (and Gayle who is on stage too) that there is this restaurant called Trattoire that is so amazing. It's in the oddest place and everyone should order the "Do Nothing" plate. Gayle says the last time she went there she got it and it was amazing. She wouldn't tell us what it meant, she just wanted the camera crew to follow us there.
We (the 3 of us, Oprah, Me and Gayle) are beamed to the restaurant's location. We are walking down a corridor and onto a standing escalator. That's the best way to describe it. Have you ever seen Toy Soldiers, anyway it descends vertically, not diagonally. There is a host stand, we breeze past that and sit down. The whole place is dark red wood, the table is glass and the owner walks us to the table and takes our order.
Apparently, you're not allowed to wear shoes at the table because the owner takes your order under the table, while you're both lying down. By the way, we are also eating with 3 other women, triplets and the owner looks just like them. While she's under the table she says, 'Oh you have to put your shoes in the alleyway - just go ask the host'. I apologize and walk over to the host, I keep looking back because I want them to explain the 'Do Nothing Platter' before they order it for me because I don't know if its vegan or not. I feel that Oprah knows I'm vegan and will not let them feed me anything unsavory.
I walk over to the host stand and take off my shoes, then realize I'm wearing two different kinds of shoes, one short boot and one long boot. I'm also wearing a long skirt which hid this from me until now. I ask the hostess for the alleyway and she points upstairs, so I take the strange escalator back upstairs. I walk down the corridor and reach outside very quickly. Then I realize we are in an apartment building of a slum, there are people outside on the sidewalk waiting to catch the bus. Lots of people. They are freezing cold, I have my shoes off and my skirt just got really short so the breeze is flying up to my - you know wheres.
I keep looking for this alleyway, but can't find it. I ask a guy that's walking by where is the alleyway. He said the only one is called Alleyway #13, and its 25 blocks that way. I look at him like, No! There has to be another one. I told him the restaurant told me to put my shoes there. He was shocked to know there was a fancy restaurant in this slummy building. So I took him there. I walked up to the host and said, ":Listen, there is no alleyway, you're holding my shoes and that's it." She didn't contest that. I take his hand and walk him back over to Oprah's table, and hopefully he can eat with us.
As we walk to Oprah's table, her table gets farther and farther away. When I stop walking it stays put. I try a few more times, then I realize I'm not allowed back there with my new guest. Since I don't know any of them, and I don't like how they owner treated me, I tell the guy let's eat by ourselves.
The hostess walks us to a new table, smaller but quiet in the corner, the glass table has a cloth on it, a candle, and it cozier. He smiles big because he didn't believe there was a restaurant here. The hostess takes our order and asks us if we want the 'Do Nothing Plate'. I said, "What is that finally?" She said, Gayle is eating it and its basically a sample of all the food being made in the kitchen. You get a couple tablespoons of everything from your guests plate, and when you're done with that, another plate full of samples from another table, until you say stop. I thought that was sick!
I told her me and the guest were vegan, I didn't even ask him, and she said there is a Do Nothing platter just for vegans, but we just get samples prepared just for us. We thought that was cool ... As soon as the plate arrived, which was the size of a fruit and vegetable platter - I woke up ...
What the hell does it mean? If you read all this, please decode it for me ... :)
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