It was a few weeks ago that I began a lonely journey into town to get my old phone fixed \u2013 since my new one had been stolen (most of the friendly and encouraging Canadians around at the time went out of there way to assure that \u201cof course you\u2019ll get it back. This isn\u2019t South Africa, you know\u201d and even proceeded to help me in finding it). Old habits \u2013 and expectations \u2013 die hard, and I knew my phone, although not very sleek or sexy, was making some little person very happy, and, with any luck, a little guilty.<\/p>\n
Anyway, this is a happy story. I knew my phone was gone the second I was forced to leave myself a voicemail of profane realization. But these types of things seem like water of the back of any good old South African duck. SO I made a merry mission into town to get my old iPhone fixed.<\/p>\n
Now Apple doesn\u2019t house the most forthcoming of helpers. Especially if you have an old version of a phone that was never meant to be unblocked and brought into SA on the sneaky sneak. Bastards. So they sent me away under the \u201cofficial word of Apple\u201d. Rogers were a lot more helpful and happily directed me to a character more willing to do the undocumented dirty work I needed done \u2013 a simple removal of a jammed sim card.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know where Stepho\u2019s is, right?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m from out of town?\u201d
\n\u201cSo you don\u2019t know where Stepho\u2019s is?\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m from South Africa.\u201d
\n\u201cEverybody knows where Stepho\u2019s is. Davie and Thurlow. Everybody likes Stepho\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feeling nice and warm inside \u2013 I was obviously fitting in \u2013 I made my way up Davie St, looking for Stepho\u2019s which was supposed to be next to my cell phone\u2019s savior. I walked for a good while before deciding it was best to at least make sure I was in fact walking up the right street, and that it was in fact the direction of \u201cup\u201d and not \u201cdown\u201d that I should be headed in.<\/p>\n
\u201cExcuse me, am I going in the right direction for Thurlow Street?\u201d
\n\u201cDon\u2019t you know where Stepho\u2019s is?\u201d
\nSilence followed on my part, possibly amplified by the widening of my eyes.
\n\u201cWell,\u201d he followed, \u201c You can\u2019t miss it, it\u2019s on the left. Everybody likes Stepho\u2019s. There\u2019ll be a line outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was a line outside. But I was not a part of such a line last night. I had made a booking.<\/p>\n
Stepho\u2019s is really is gorgeous. Great Greek restaurant. Perfect for students. No entr\u00e9e for over $10.95 (I had garlic prawns), but really, it\u2019s all mostly under that.<\/p>\n
All my friends still reek of garlic, I\u2019ve become our mascot.<\/p>\n
But anyway, the moral of the story is, you should know where Stepho\u2019s is. Everybody likes Stepho\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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