Word: karle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Square many times before actually meeting him at the Tasty. He sports several earrings and a real smooth mannerism that goes with his jean jacket. This guy also was mean, looking to start a fight with a redhaired guy who sat alone at the table. But Karl refereed and brought the conflict...
...these regulars, Karl calls them the "real people" who dominate his place after 3 a.m. when the bar crowd leaves and it becomes a social club where everybody knows each other, I was the "celebrity grill cook." That was pretty good in my mind because at least I was sort of real. But the two Pine Manor students fresh from the Picadilly Philly instantly recognized me as the Harvard student...
When Harvard students visit the Tasty pack into the cramped diner, they behave as though they were standing around in Weld Hall and a freshman party. There's constant noise, fights break out and couples make out. These are not model customers; they aren't real people. In fact Karl has to make some of them pay ahead of time because he knows they'll run out on him after they have eaten their food...
...students like bantering with Karl. Karl flirts with the women...
...morning Karl stops the witty back-and-forths and begins serious conversation with the customers, most of them middle-aged laborers, men who eat their eggs breakfast in the Tasty. During this time the diner goes through eight gallons of coffee and a dozen eggs...