I ordered Chinese takeout food today.

When I placed the call to Tai Pak this evening, ordering one number 36 and one number 46, which roughly equates to Hung-Sin fish in soy sauce and squid with vegetables, respectively, I felt kind of like Lucy Kelson, the character played by Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice.

SCENE: Lucy comes home – alone, again – calls up Mr. Wong down at the Chinese restaurant and orders this (without reading a menu):

- Hi, Mr Wong… This is Lucy… Lucy Kelson… Fine… I would like a number 17; a number 4 – no, number 5… no. Number 7…? And then, can I get the number 4 without the garlic sauce…? And then, maybe, two orders of number 26… Yes, this is for one… And that’s it. No… Give me a number 8… Give me two number 8′s. … okay … okay … bye.

I feel like some day I could have my own Mr. Wong who knows me by name and whom I call every other night. Just like Lucy.

Interestingly enough, Lucy is also the name of my other favorite character, Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, from While You Were Sleeping. But that’s a different story.