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Freaky

8 August 2005, 07:45

Husband and I took friends of ours out to dinner on Saturday night, to the very lovely Moroccan Soup Bar in Fitzroy North.

That day, I was reading a review of the restaurant online and it mentioned that every night one lucky diner got their meal gratis, just to spread the love around. As I read that, I thought – “that’s gonna be us tonight. Don’t know why, but it’s gonna be us and it’s gonna be because I’m pregnant.”

[Just keep in mind that I’m not showing yet really, and the pot I’ve achieved could be excused away with tales of late-night creamcakes.]

So we rock up (place is packed) and Hana, the owner, goes to great pains to get me a comfy chair. At the time I thought that was a bit strange, but never look a gift comfy chair in the leg.

We feasted on vegetarian moroccan delights (their chickpea bake is so to-die-for, I have wet dreams about it. But then I am pregnant.) and at the end of the meal go up to pay…

Hana says “one of your meals is on the house tonight…” (see, told you) ”... you just need to give [the love] back to someone who needs it in your travels”. Kawaii, ne!

She then looks straight at my tummy and says “and good luck with everything”. I looked at her funny (hell, I look at everyone funny) and asked “Can you tell I’m pregnant” (I guess, as opposed to “Can you tell I’m a fat gourmandising piglet with donuts for specs?”)

She swears, “No…”, winks at Husband and then says “and you’re going to have a girl.”

Well bugger me with a fishfork. I was a bit freaked out by that. Not only am I not really showing (I keep saying that don’t I?), I was wearing my big comfy poncho so you couldn’t even see my tummy.

Sheesh. What is it with these fancy African fillies, and where can I get some?

Posted by Kinki on 8 August 2005, 07:45
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  1. Must be that women’s intuition malarky I keep hearing about… freaky indeed.
    — Dan    Aug 8, 08:56 PM    #
  2. freaky indeedy, as you say sometimes :)
    — megha    Aug 9, 04:22 AM    #
  3. freaky, but Hana sounds delightful as does this Moroccan restaurant. it’s on my list of things to do when next in Melb.
    — nicole    Aug 9, 03:39 PM    #
  4. You’ll love it Nicole – there’s no menu – Hana recites it to you. We usually just go in and say “We’ll have the banquet, but make that chickpea bake a large” and they always take care of us.

    But you can’t make bookings for less than 6 people and it’s always packed. Just as well there’s a nice wine bar up the road where you can have a shiraz or two while you’re waiting the obligatory 45 minutes for a table…
    — Kinki    Aug 9, 04:09 PM    #
  5. The big comfy poncho must have given it away. What colour was the poncho though as that may be important in determining gender?
    — Hammy    Aug 16, 11:53 PM    #