November 21, 2009

So today Fatihah and I had a lunch date at Mevlana Lokantası. I could go into detail about our meal, the dessert and the tea and coffe we had but that isn't the purpose of this journal entry. We happened to be sitting at the first table facing the clear windows and doors. We expected everyone to stare and whisper as they passed and well... they did. However, there were two young boys that came along. I'm guessing that they were 7 or 8 years old because they were fairly small but old enough to be out playing alone. One of the little boys had on a blue shirt and blue jeans while the other had on a red shirt, black jeans and a power ranger mask. The one in red was holding a metal bar that appeared to had fallen offof a rail near by and it happened to be shaped like a gun. As they passed we couldn't help but to  giggle at how cute they were. The one in blue caught a glimpse of us giggling thru the window . He told his friend, "the little red bandit" as I call him now. Boy didn't they have a field day after that. They were so entertaining! They began to "shoot at us" thru the window. LOL! At first we just giggled and after a while we decided to play along. They pretended to shoot us and we pretended to be shot! We were falling all over each other grabbing our chests like we were in so much pain. By mind you... we were sitting at the first table in the nicest restaurant  in our town, and oh yeah we were the only Americans. Not that we needed anymore attention but now, on public display we were horse playing with two little boys thru a glass window. Eventually, it got old and Fatihah and I tried our best to get back to our meal but the two rascals just wouldn't quit and now they were disturbing everyone's meal. Not to mention the PERFECT machine gun sound effects that they were making. After about ten minutes they were still at it and now the restaurant owner was a bit disturbed.... okay maybe a lot. He sent the cook outside to chase them away. They were gone for max, a minute and a half. But afterwards they were right back in the window putting on their show.Now we were watching the cook chase these little boys back and fourth (which could not have been sanitary since he was going back in the kitchen to cook LOL, but tthat's on another note) thru the glass window along with everyone else in the restaurant. Us being the origin of this catastrophe... we decided to pick up our tab and make an escape while everyone was distracted LOL! We made it about ten feet from the restaurant before we heard those same perfect machine gun sound effects. It turned out that we were being followed by "the little red bandit" and his accomplice. Fatihah snapped apicture of and it was on again. The followed us for about 15 minutes. In this 15 minutes they managed to get the whole town's attention, keep up the sound effects and ambush us. This was the most excitement that me and Fatihah had had for a while!