Delightful Sushi Date

Dining in or out?

I'm unsure of its because of the pandemic or because I used to live in NYC but there is no better luxury than being able to get take out or local pick up from your favorite local restaurants. The journey to said place is usually calming to me whether its walking down the streets of my old Clinton Hill (Brooklyn) neighborhood or driving to a local spot 4-6 minutes away, long enough for you to play one banger super loudly in your car.

A new favorite luxury and penny pinching strategy of mine would be the drive and pick up a to go order to avoid the extra delivery fees. But this time I changed my mind and instead of placing a to-go order I actually decided to eating in! By myself! At the Sushi Bar!

It was the Monday before Thanksgiving and usually around this time on the east coast I'd usually be spiraling… BUT now I’m on the west coast and it has been such a treat. Yes, my skin is dry, yes my allergies still kinda suck, yes my coworkers are trying to condense 5 days of work into two because its the week of Thanksgiving...but it could be so much worse! My positive mood is really surprising me.

When I come in to the sushi spot to place a to go order the owner looks at me and goes, "OMG.. you're walking!" The distance from my handicap parking space to the spot by the sushi bar is maybe 35-40 feet max so I decided to forego the right crutch that has become my personality for the last few months... (like, you can hear me coming from a mile away, every other time I move, the crutch falls and makes a crashing noise to everyone's "delight". There's no other way to people respond to that/me but with a half smile… How dare those able bodied people give me any other type of look for my crutch falling! )

Anyways back to sushi...her excitement reminds me, ‘heck yeah I am walking!’ (imperfectly, with a limp, and still in some paid) but its such a change from a few months ago when I was rolling in trying to fit my wheelchair, or waiting for the people sitting at the one handicap spot that my wheelchair could fit into to finish their dinner so I could have my turn

Ugh, I love this sushi place so much.

So there I am and you know I'm like 'Hey is this seat at the bar open. I'll sit here and order my hand roll' (currently going through a hand roll phase - there is no better way to consume real crab sushi)… To the right of the seats next to me are the owners' children doing some homework or playing games. How I wish that was my experience during the holidays…It's such a simple, but perfect moment and I smile at them…