Word: ihope
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reality: ...but only if your mother was a short-order cook at the IHOP...
...thought I knew how to get to IHOP. "Get on Soldier's Field Road and drive, drive," a colleague said. Well the damn road forks. And I took the wrong tine. "I'm sorry I'm late. Stupid woman driver, you know?" I told my interviewee, apologizing for being 40minutes late. "I didn't say that," he said, giving me a puzzled look. Okay. Maybe he passes. It was a test of sorts for the subject of my interview: self-described anti-sexist man Jackson Katz, a former all-state football player who makes his living on the college lecture...
...students on their way to the subway or to stores and cafes around Harvard Square avoid lingering in this smoky hangout of would-be adolescent punks sporting black leather, spikes and the latest in hair design and coloring. The pit is a hangout, and it's nothing like the IHOP or the yogurt store you liked to dawdle in after school. This is a real urban joint, the territory of ruthless teen-age druggies and anarchists. Or so you think...
Wong says that in the garden patch of life, she's glad to have spent so much time peeling onions. "In the working world, you don't have that luxury to share with people on late night runs to IHOP. We'll all be fine--the bottom line is that we'll all be fine--but it'll never be the same...