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NECTION MAGAZINES
Once again, one of my sisters
who resides in Denver, Susan, is
smack dab in the middle of a con-
nection. Knowing her since birth (I
am eight years her senior), I can’t
recall anyone calling her Susan.
Maybe our Mom used “Susan!”
when disciplining or chasing her
when she was a child. However, the
world knows her as Susie, both per-
sonally and professionally.
Somewhere along the line, she
picked up another nickname,
Snooze, that a few relatives call her
today. According to Susie, it was
my stepfather that started referring
to her as Snooze, shortly after he
married our mother in the mid-70’s.
Since my stepfather didn’t have any
children of his own, Susie believed
he was not used to teenagers
sleeping through the entire morn-
ing on weekends, and hence
Snooze.
For a period of three months in
the spring of 2016, I traveled to
Denver ten times on business, typi-
cally spending 3 to 4 nights there.
On a few of those trips I was able
to stay with Susie and her husband,
which was nice.
Most of the time I stayed down-
town or near the old Denver Sta-
pleton airport area, both of which
were close to my team and our
business partners. As you might
expect I was eating three meals a
day at a variety of restaurants.
One morning, I had a late morn-
ing breakfast meeting scheduled
with one of our business partners. I
looked for a non-fast food restau-
rant close to his office. About a
block away, I found a restaurant
called Snooze. It was terrific, with
very creative breakfast food, more
like a brunch place. Later I investi-
gated and found a couple more
locations in Denver as well as three
other states.
I did a detail address lookup on
the other two locations in Denver.
None of them were located near
my sister’s house so I wondered if
she had ever heard or been to a
Snooze, which opened in Denver
about 10 years ago. So I sent her a
text message immediately follow-
ing the meeting, along the lines of
“Had a great meal at Snooze.
Thought of you. Check it out if you
haven’t eaten there already.”
She texted me
back immediately.
It didn’t surprise
me that Snooze
had eaten at
Snooze. However,
she attached an
image with her
text
message,
which amazed
me. Shortly before receiving my
original message, she put on old
tee shirt to do some cooking and
cleaning around her house. Per-
haps she was responding to a tele-
pathic “yummy” from me 20 miles
away as I ate my eggs.
SNOOZING THROUGH A CONNECTION
By: Dan Rosenberg
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