booze+celebrity sighting=utter embarrassment

David Ortiz

Last night my company workgroup had a really amazing dinner at Sorellina. Wow--really loved that place. Incredible decor, great bar and extremely tasty food.  Definitely want to go back there again. I think it places in the top 5 restaurants in Boston for me now.

Last year we had a local celebrity sighting at our company dinner--Bernie from Bernie and Phyl's furniture store. This year the sighting was much better. Red Sox hitter David Ortiz was having dinner with his wife and some other suited, diamond earring'd guy at a nearby table. I stared at the back of Big Papi's huge head for most of the evening.

Toward the end of the night, one of my coworkers, a typically shy and reserved woman, decided she was going to ask if she could take a picture. We were all amazed...tried to caution her against it...but she was determined. We told her she should ask first at least, and that seemed to be the plan. So she walked over, and instead of asking, she just took the picture. They ignored her but a woman at the table next to them mentioned that it was really rude for her to do that. She mumbled something about how she was leaving and when she came back to our table, she had turned nearly purple with embarrassment. She hastily said goodbye and bolted...leaving all of us in shock. She was so mortified, poor girl. It was very out of character for her to be so bold. We all felt really bad for her. What was a lovely evening is now clouded in an "oh my god, why did I do that," moment.

We did find out from the valet that he drives the nice big white Range Rover that waited outside the door...