Overpopulated

It looked like it had been decades since anybody had eaten. The place was so full of people; people were leaving out of claustrophobia. Not one table was empty and I had been waiting all week to eat this type of food so weren’t leaving. We braced ourselves and went in, we decided to take the food to go since we wouldn't really enjoy our food there.

After ordering, we found out the standard waiting time was an hour and since we were in no hurry we decided to wait. Spotting a couple leaving their small table, we hurriedly walked to claim it. Although not the best spot, it was better than waiting standing up. After being situated, it is then that I started to observe the chaos around me. There were to large groups in the center with a variation of groups of two and four around them. The first was a family, composed of the two parents and their six children. The two older siblings were girls probably one or two years apart, and the rest were little boys ranging from ages six to nine. This family was all wearing the same t-shirt, but half the family was wearing jeans and the other half football pants. It is then that I realized that the family had probably come to celebrate the boys’ football game victory. The really didn't seem talkative, as the boys were inhaling all the food around them the girls had a fork in one hand and their bedazzled iPhone in the other. The parents seemed to be talking about the game they had just attended, with the mother occasionally telling the boys to stop making a mess, reaching towards their face with a napkin.  

The other group was made up of three couples probably enjoying date night away from the kids. They all looked around mid to late thirties. Their table was round, therefore making it easier to chat with everybody. They all seemed to be talking about the game that was on the TV above them, laughing and making jokes about the teams.

A group of five girls got up and followed the shortest one of the group to the front to pick up her order. A few minutes later, another name was called and another girl from the group proceeded to grab her order. As the rest of the group waited for their orders, they kept to the front of the place, standing of to the corner. They were all laughing at something one of the girls was saying. The girl they had followed to get her order, shifted towards one of the counters and placed her food, as she did this the rest of the girls subconsciously shifted towards her and continued their conversation. I found it very interesting that the girls didn’t even know they had moved to accommodate their leader. What was most interesting was that the girls was an average girl, she wasn’t the tallest, or the prettiest, and maybe not even the smartest one, but there was something about her that made all the girls follow unknowingly. There were only two girls left now waiting on their food, (which made me super excited because they had ordered before me ) when I noticed one of the boys from a table getting up and walking towards them pretending to grab a straw. Any other time I would say this is normal, but this was the fifth time the boy had gone up from his table to try to approach this group of girls. It was quite funny seeing him try to get their attention with no prevail.

As the last girl of the bunch grabbed her food and they started to head towards the door, so did I, I was surely the next one and we were hungry.