A short thread at Leaside Community Facebook page makes a pleasant start to Sunday. A reader recounts being out for dinner by herself with “my reading” because her family was busy. She went to the Swiss Chalet on Overlea Blvd. After being seated she was approached by a girl who asked if she wanted to join her and some others. The reader calls it “an amazing gesture, first time ever.” “I thanked her profusely, told her she was very sweet and said I was just going to do some reading (how selfish of me!). They were almost finished but if they were just starting like me I may have changed my mind. Now I need to play this forward and hope the ball keeps rolling in this direction. So unbelievably sweet.” A reader responded that this had happened to her at a conference. She was asked to come over to a table “because no one should eat alone” so she joined the group. The experience paid off hugely as she is still in touch with these people ten years later.
