Wednesday Nights

It is an Israel Tradition, we are told. Massov Burger at the Tachana on Wednesday Night. Everyone is there.

If everyone is there, we will be there, even if it means we have to bail out of second seder an hour early. We will stuff our faces with Shwarma and hamburgers, and see if anyone can actually eat three of them in one meal. Few can, but Big G and Mick can pull the feat of with some regularity. Lippy might even do it once or twice.

By this time, Menachem has betrayed us at Mercaz for Beis. He still wants to get together on Wednesday’s and he has a key to a room at the LaRomme hotel. The only hotel at the time with an indoor pool.

So Wednesday takes on a new activity. Swimming for an hour at the LaRomme, followed by Massov Burger. It works for a while. We escape yeshiva even earlier, and jump on a bus toward town.

We go for a few weeks, before someone checks his key and we are no longer allowed in the hotel pool. We try to find alternative swimming venues. There is a private swimming club in Talpiot, and we manage to sneak in their once or twice, but for the most part, the Wednesday swimming portion of our day is canceled.