Reality,
Nope. Not even close.
1) I don't wear a tie to work. Dress at our office isn't business casual - it's CASUAL. Jeans and tennis shoes are perfectly acceptable and quite normal.
2) If the 3 of us gather, it's probably at my place. Therefore, I'll be seated. Skander is most likely to be the latest to arrive, and therefore is most likely to be standing.
3) Caleb isn't going to suggest McDonald's. In fact, I'm probably the only one of us who would ever suggest it. In fact, it's going to be rare that there is a quick decision on where to go. Most likely, it will involve crossing off various places until we find a place that no one DOESN'T want to go. Or, on occasion, one of us will have a particular preference for something, and will suggest that off the bat.
4) Not any one of us would ever ask who is buying. That would be decided at the restaurant by one of us grabbing the check before the other two are expecting it.
5) Skander doesn't look Indian. To be honest, I don't think he looks all that Middle Eastern, either, although he has a darker complexion.
6) If I were to absolutely go off, Skander and Caleb wouldn't look on in stunned silence. They would undoubtedly push me even further. And more than likely, it's Skander going off about something to do with his fantasy team - like Stephon Marbury missing two games that week.
7) It would be a reasonably rare occasion that we'd bring food back to my place to eat. The only case I can think of for that would involve a basketball games one evening. Any other case, we'd probably watch the game at the place we went to eat, or we'd probably have food already over at my place.
The most likely scenario also involves a fourth person - our friend Shannon (not to be confused with Skander's wife, Shannyn), who isn't a big basketball fan. He's a hockey fan - who hates the Lakers, hates the Pistons (because they're from Detroit), hates Jason Kidd (because of the kiss on free throws), hates Tim Duncan, hates the fact that basketball has high scores...like 70 or 80 points...and hates the fact that basketball doesn't allow hockey-style (by the before-the-lockout rules) contact. If you're not offended yet, you will be....take my word for it on that one.
