Neecha's Blog

I felt twangs of guilt when I perceived one of the dine and ditchers was embarrassed after I publicly blacklisted her. So I turned to the footage from the security cameras, where I could count precisely how many bites of food the two women took and see how long they waited before telling their server […]

On a Sunday afternoon, two women sat and ordered one entree each. Six minutes after their food was served, they sent both dishes back to be reheated because it wasn’t hot enough and they wanted more sauce. The waitress said she could microwave it for them. The women said they didn’t eat food that came […]

At the produce market, one of the Chinese workers taught me how to say, “I love you” and “hello” in Cantonese as he loaded cases of fresh vegetables into the back of my car. The next couple times I saw him, he tested me on past vocab and taught me the names of vegetables, numbers, […]