Yesterday afternoon, a friend of mine took me out to dinner to a really nice, very popular restaurant overlooking the bay, were the view is spectacular, the food is good and one needs a reservation, or has to wait a long time to get a table, on a Sunday, especially, and by the water, definitely. It was a spur of the moment decision on his part and I liked the idea, so obviously, we didn’t have a reservation. We chanced it, nonetheless.
As we walked toward the entrance, over to one side of valet was parked a Ferrari I had recently decided I would look good driving, in the exact color I thought would suit me. I had seen it in a magazine and ripped out the page so I could think about it some more. I was thrilled to see what it looked like in real like and I asked my friend to take a picture of me next to it, because I was in manifest mode. Which he did.
In the restaurant, we were told the wait would be shorter for an inside table than it would be for an outside table, but we chose outside anyway, knowing we might be waiting for at least a half hour. That actually wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be. Though there were many waiting people in line, maybe there were mainly bigger parties waiting for tables and not that many pairs of people waiting. Who knows, all I know is that I told my friend, it probably won’t even be half that long. We both looked at each other and smiled, knowing I was “playing,” “let’s manifest this.”
I wanted to wash my hands, so after we put our name on the list with the Maitre d’, I used the facilities. By the time I came out of the bathroom, our table was ready. Not even five minutes had passed. My friend and I looked at each other and smiled, as if to say to each other, “nice, now, what else can we manifest?” Now, the reason we had wanted to sit outside was because the weather was sunny, warm and beautiful, and in the off chance we could have somewhat of a bay view, wouldn’t that be nice. So, without saying a word to each other, I know my friend and I were thinking the same thing, “bay view.”
We followed the Maitre d’ through the dinning room, and then outside onto the patio, the upstairs patio with the nicer views. We were lead across the patio to the far end of the patio, right in the center, right on the balcony overlooking the bay from the center of it all. “There you go gentlemen,” said the Matire d’, and then he said these exact words, “Right where you want to be. The best view in the house.”
Both my friend and I looked at each other and smiled and my friend proceeded to sit at one end of the table. The table was set so that we could face each other, however, the view was set to the side of us, and I wanted to be able to look right into the bay. So, I moved my chair so I could face the bay. Consequently, he was sitting to my right side and there was another table for two directly behind me, butt up against my chair. At this point, I officially had the best seat in the house, a seat the restaurant had not planned on giving me but that I wanted to enjoy. Seeing this, my friend said, “The best table in the house is not good enough for you? You have to face your chair that way and cause a problem?”
“Problem? No problem,” I responded, “no one is going to sit there.” I said that a little tongue in cheek because I knew there was a line of people waiting to be seated and that there was no way anyone could be seated on that table if unless I moved back to where the seat was originally. But I figured, I would enjoy the best seat in the house until the Matire d’ came and sat someone behind me. I knew they wouldn’t be shy about asking me to move, and I wouldn’t be offended. I knew the score.
Within minutes, a couple waiters came up behind me and pulled the table away from me and butted it up to another couple tables away from me to create a six seater table for a party of six. I have to admit, I was a little surprised. It was such a random thing to have happen. Or was it so random? Had I actually manifested that? My friend looked at me and smiled as if to say, “I can’t believe that just happened.” It was absolutely ridiculously interesting. And to add to the ridiculousness of the situation, I looked around me to see if there is anything else I wanted changed about my environment and spotted something. And almost not being able to hold my own laughter at my own joke I was about to make, I said to my friend, “And next, I’m gonna shift that pole, that is in my way.”
There was a lamp pole, or some kind of pole, to my right, next to my friend, that blocked two inches of the bay view, and if the pole were literally six inches to the right, it would be positioned in front of the houses that lined the bay and no longer be a disturbance to my view. I of course was kidding. And my friend knew that, but he took the ridiculous and went further and said, “great, after what you’ve been able to manifest today, now there’s going to be an earthquake or something, just so you can have an uninterrupted view.”
“NO!” I said. This I took very seriously. “No, what I want benefits all, otherwise it doesn’t serve me either in the end. If that pole is supposed to move, it will move and benefit me and my view and everyone here, somehow, or it won’t happen.” Moments later, the woman seated behind my friend tried to get up, but my friend’s chair and her chair were so butted up against each other that it was hard for her to move, so my friend asked me if I could move the table about “six inches” so the lady behind her could have more room. Just as we were moving the table, I noticed in the same movement that the pole had “moved” six inches too. I sat down in absolute amazement how the “shifting” of the pole, for my pleasure had served the lady sitting behind my friend, and consequently my friend as well. “That’s better.” he said.
I then brought to his attention what had just happened and we laughed and we knew we were on to something. In fact, because I moved my chair for my pleasure so I could see the view, it created a space on the balcony, where no space had been before. Throughout our dinner, many children and many people came to stand for a moment at the balcony next to our table to look out and enjoy the view and take it in. It didn’t disturb us at all. In fact, it pleased us no end. Some people, especially the children, actually turned to talk to us. In my mind, as if to say thank you for “shifting the pole.”