I stopped in for a bite to eat. The proprietor sat at my table. He looked pretty tired. He said he was sleepy. I told him to go to sleep, that it didn't matter to me. He bowed his head and covered his face with his hands. Then, a costumer came along and wanted to pay for their food, so he got up to take their money.
I was reading the newspaper while eating my burrito when the boss came back and sat down. He reached for the calender section of the newspaper.
No show times yet, he said. I new exactly what he was talking about. The new Star Wars movie. They want to keep it a secret to keep the riff-raff out, I said. The boss is about sixty-some, so I was surprised when he turned into Star Wars geek right before my eyes. Not quite a geek, but a more of a Star Wars sage, or philosopher. He was talking about the force and the Jedi all but being gone, and Darth Vader being dead. Where is it going? he asked. I was pretending to be knowledgeable. I saw episodes one, two, three, or four, five, six, how ever they call it, but that was a long time ago. I was thinking hmmm, Darth Vader's dead? I kind of remember that. Ahh, they'll probably create new characters, I said. Or, bring back old ones he said. He rattled off a few names that I'd never heard of before. I was in over my head with the conversation. Then, luckily he turned his attention to a picture in the newspaper. It was a Star Wars character holding the new light cyber. That looks like a fire cross I said. Yeah, it's medieval, the boss said. It's not supposed to be medieval, it's suppose to be futuristic. They're going turn the damn thing into Excalibur!
