What is a sticker worth?

We have a favorite place to hit in Fairfax. It's Fat Tuesday's. http://www.fatsfairfax.com/

We were in there visiting with the owners and good friends R.L. & Karen Butler last night after casting votes in the election. We are going to have a benefit for a charity I care deeply about in January. So R.L. and I are huddling to try to figure things out. I hope all you blog readers will be able to attend.

Fats is a neighborhood place, it's such a fun place to hang out. The food is really terrific, so is the atmosphere. It's such a wonderful mix of people. It's basically our audience all in one place. You might sit next to a construction worker, or perhaps an attorney. Or you might bump into Dave who works at the EPA, or the guy who works at the Giant Store in the same shopping center. It's where I first met a good friend the Mayor of Clifton Tom Peterson and his lovely wife Jean..

That's Tom pictured on the right. Fats was introduced to us by a good friend who lives in our neighborhood. She's basically in the witness protection program this morning. You'll understand why soon. We called her after settling in to see if she was going to stop by. She replied I'll be up in a few minutes.

She settled in and didn't even order a drink because Karen arrived with her white wine. That's the kind of place Fats is, it's basically Cheers set in Fairfax. Our friend filled us in her kids, her husband, her job, her neighbors, her life basically. Kim, a friend of our daughters stopped by to say hi and to give us a hug. It was basically a great evening, until panic set in. It was my sweater that produced the panic. Our friend spotted something on it, and she said:

"Oh No!"

She grabbed the sticker off my sweater.

"I have to have this, I forgot to vote, my husband is going to kill me!"

A few minutes later her husband calls. He quizzes her on whether or not she voted. She insists she did, he insists she didn't. He checked with the precinct workers.

She said it defiantly:

"You'll see I've got the sticker to prove it!"

I think she owes me one. Although I wasn't really given an option to keep my well earned stickier. She's also lucky that Mayor Peterson wasn't sitting next to her!.