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Why I Want To Have Dinner With Walter Mitty
In the book “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Herbert, Walter Mitty daydreams all the time. He daydreams while driving, eating, and if he’s working he is probably day dreaming. I would have dinner with him because I can talk all i want, I can space out when i want and he won’t care. Also when I’m done eating I can leave him the bill and he has to pay. Those are some of the reasons I would like to have dinner with Walter Mitty.

The best reason I want to have dinner with Walter is that he and I can space out together whenever we want. So while Walter is daydreaming, I and start to daydream too. When I’m done daydreaming, I can tell Walter about my daydream, and when i am done telling him about my daydream I can try and get him to
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I can talk the whole time when I’m not daydreaming and I can do whatever and say whatever I want. I can also order a lot of food and I can eat in peace. I say that because he would be daydreaming the whole time and he won’t be talking so it will be quiet while I am eating so I am able to concentrate on eating my food.

Finally, I can leave him with the bill. I can order the most expensive food on the menu and he won’t know until he stops daydreaming and looks at the very expensive bill. After I eat all the food I order. if I’m still hungry then I can order more food. So I am kinda taking advantage of going to dinner with a very bad daydreamer. When I am done with all my food and when I’m full I would just get up go to the bathroom and after that I would just walk out the front doors and he won’t know I left until he stops daydreaming and sees he is all alone. The good thing about that is that he will not remember what happened and I can call him the next day and ask him if he wants to go to dinner again.

In the end, that is why I would have dinner with Walter Mitty. We could space out together, I could talk all i want and I can just up and leave him with the very expensive bill and he won’t remember a thing about dinner. Then him and I can do it again another night whenever we

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