‘There’s actually an excellent restaurant near here. Its only drawback is that it’s a bit expensive.’
He started to describe how to find the restaurant. When he saw how confused his customer seemed to be, muddling up his left from his right, he took a piece of paper and wrote the name and address of the restaurant, then drew a simple map, complete with arrows. But he had barely taken a few steps towards the specific destination when he stopped in confusion at the first crossroads he reached. Did he really want to have dinner in a restaurant? That would mean sitting at a table on his own, when everyone else would be having dinner with their partners or in groups. It seemed it would be better to have dinner at home and to eat whatever he could find in the fridge. A boiled egg and a piece of
