R-E-S-P-E-C-T

I'm sure we've all seen shows, movies, and commercials in which a restaurant or store (or wherever) suddenly breaks into song and dance (which the people outside rush to join) and thought "This never happens in real life!" (or some variant thereof). Well, I found out on Saturday that this apparently does occasionally happen. (I had never seen anything like this before in my life.)

I was with Lanth, Zifnab, and Lemming at one of the locations of Johnny Rocket's in Hollywood after seeing Josh at Fight Club (I'll write that entry in a few minutes). People requested songs from their table, and when certain canonical songs (such as YMCA) showed up, one of the waiters went to the back room, raised the volume, and several of the employees did a routine.

The first of these, "Respect," was the best. First, our waitress was really jamming to the song and them several of the other workers joined her. We also noticed some customers inside the restaurant moving a bit in their seats and some bystanders outside the restaurant moving around a little bit. Then, all of a sudden, some people inside stood up and joined the employees AND (most amazingly) a few people from outside ran into the place to jam with the employees. I'm pretty sure there were more people dancing than sitting inside Johnny Rocket's. To see something like this in real life was really quite amusing/amazing.