Unruly chopsticks

I won't lie. Sometimes when I am out running errands, I stop and get (lunch special) sushi. So sue me that I love a good "table for one." You know I love a table for 2, 8, 30 too, but every once in a while I need some "table for one" therapy. 

When it comes to my love for Sushi, there is just one problem....

I can not use chopsticks for the life of me. 

Every time I go, I pretend that I can use them, but end up getting frustrated and my graceful attempts end in me stabbing the roll and then the roll falls apart and so I use my hands like a four- year- old. 

So the other day I went to one of my favorite little sushi places. Just a small one room quaint restaurant  where everyone is so sweet. I sat over at a small table in the corner where I could just sit, relax and enjoy the quiet hum of the aquarium across the room. 

I had just ordered a soda when in walks a darling couple who walk across the room and sit in the table right next to mine. I swear there was only a foot between me and the guy. I decided to just ignore them because if I started talking, I would have probably said a hundred awkward things (right, Sandy?) and the last thing this cute couple wants is a random mom talking to them. So, I just squished as close as I could to the wall next to me (to add an inch or two extra between the guy and myself) and waited for my lunch to arrive. 

Once it arrived, I started eating, all the while pretending to use my chopsticks.

When all of a sudden, I lost control and my sushi roll did just that.... 

It rolled right off my chopstick, bounced off the table and onto the floor. 

I tried really hard not to laugh and it made it even harder because I knew the cute couple next to me wanted to die laughing, but they held it in. I kept my "no eye contact/no talking- because- it- would end- up- being- really- awkward" rule and kicked the sushi roll under the table. 

With that, I went back to eating with my unruly chopsticks and pretended like nothing happened. 

It was at that point where I wish I had a table for two, so I could have died laughing with whoever was the two. 

I learned a valuable lesson that day... 

while eating sushi at a table for one... 

ask for a fork.