...and I didn't make reservations.

Fellow noshers,

I see them almost every time I am at the Diner: Roe and Wade. They love this place; are here everyday, for every meal. This year marks their thirty-fourth birthday, and they are celebrating.

We've seen how embarassing the restaurants make it for us on our birthdays. It seems the entire staff, and anyone they could drag off the street, come clapping along with this wimpy little cupcake, with that lonely candle on top burning at both ends. Don't you hate to be that person, singled out for surviving yet another year? Our friends Roe and Wade, however, don't seem disturbed at all to be in the limelight.

Ironically, despite being well-meaning people who simply want folks to be able to choose for themselves, this celebration isn't all that it could be, even for Roe and Wade. My perception is that the Diner is always at capacity, not a seat left in the house. It is only now that I look around and realize how many seats remain empty. The fire marshall would be pleased.

You know, we really should not be surprised that today brings a light crowd to the Diner. Though this is the busiest night of the week (it seems it's always the busiest night here) the patrons at this cantina of corruption grew up knowing that one-third of their generation, and their fellow diners, was missing: tens of millions of brothers and sisters, classmates and soccer team members—all dead on the altar of “choice.” They grew up knowing that they themselves might not have survived if their mothers’ circumstances had been a little different. In a way, how can we blame them for some of the (non)-nutritional choices they themselves make after such a revelation?

For once, I am grateful to be able to partake of the meal served here.

I think I've lost my appetite,

~Bill

P.S. Since 1973, over 30 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States. Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) alleged at the time, that her pregnancy was the result of a rape. She later admitted she was lying. Since becoming a Christian, Norma McCorvey has fought to make abortion illegal.