Martini Shot
Being a regular
Rob makes fun of a friend of because he's relentlessly focused and totally impossible to distract, then realizes that he's actually very successful and happy because of these very traits, which is often the way it is with people we make fun of.
A restaurant owner once told me that he considered anyone who came to his restaurant more than once a month to be a regular. If they came on a Tuesday or Wednesday night -- traditionally slow nights in the food service industry -- they were VIPs. Once a month doesn't seem like a lot, actually, but in the restaurant business -- which I've always thought of as the show business that you can eat -- once a month, especially on a Tuesday or Wednesday, is almost bankable loyalty...