Breaking New Ground

Tara has been working to rid our personal space of plastics connected with food. Last year or earlier this year she bought a crapload of Pyrex storage containers and she has been reusing the hell out of water bottles, peanut butter jars, etc. A couple of weeks ago she decided we should start taking our own containers to Chicago Gyro.

For those who don't know nor read my other blog, Chicago Gyro is a restaurant around the corner from our house, it is the only ethnic food in the neighborhood and some of the healthiest too. We started getting to go from their every Friday when we were dating...dinner and a movie at my place. I actually proposed while we were eating Chicago Gyro. While we remodeled our kitchen - about 3 weeks - we ate their almost everyday. We got to know them, they got to know us and then Tara starting working at the school where one of them attended.

I am not a ground breaker, I don't want people to notice me and Tara wanted me to walk up our street with a bag of Pyrex, ask these guys, mostly Kurds & Iraqis, to put our regular order in them.

I did it and everything was fine. The former student asked if we were going on a trip and I said no we don't like styrofoam. He said ok and that was that. Easy. Still a little embarrassing but easy. I know we are the oddest people in the neighborhood and we have to be some of the oddest black folk in East Nashville, if not all of Nashville.