he was glad it was on the menu

The fortune from the cookie that followed Littlegirlcop's shredded pork lunch special said "Romance comes into your life in a very unusual way" That might be ok if it were very unusual in a Cary Grant screwball comedy sort of way, Murphy wasn't sure he was ready for very unusual if it were in an interspecies – I fell in love with a large cactus – sort of way or even worse an interspecies Berkeley sort of way. He didn't want a physical relationship with a differently abled house cat or an endangered marine mammal or anything other than a reasonably whole middle aged male human. What could very unusual mean in the context of his love life. In that Venn diagram where the circles for unusual and romance overlapped; what could be there? Murphy could think of lots of things that were in the very unusual circle; and he could think of a lot of things in the romance circle; but he was having a really hard time thinking of anything that was in the overlap of those two circles.

He and Marty had just been having lunch at a place they called "deep fried little bird." That wasn't the resteraunt's real name, Murphy wasn't sure what it's real name was. All he knew was that he liked the place, the food was tasty and the lunch specials were cheap and plentiful. He also enjoyed the translations on their menu which were as erratic as the service. While neither Murphy nor Marty had ever ordered the deep fried little bird, they were glad it was on the menu. While not appetizing, the string of words was poetic and the nickname livened up the lunch spot in a way that a more usual names like, china express or peking gardens couldn't. There were lots of things he could think of that would be where the tasty, cheep, and plentiful circles overlapped. The shreaded pork lunch special would definitely be there, but Murphy had his doupts about the deep fried little bird.