Arnon Grunberg

22:45

Cognac

Last night the restaurant at Hotel Villa Igiea in Palermo was empty. Two waiters were having a conversation.
Thank god, at 21:34 a middle-aged couple arrived.
The couple had dinner and around 22:45 the rather bald man asked the waiter: “Do you have cognac?”

“Of course we have cognac,” the waiter said.