Ryan Gosling Ate a Meal at a Place Where I Was Once a Miserable Waitress

“In these photos, Ryan Gosling is OSTENSIBLY eating at Peels, a restaurant on the Bowery at which I worked a hell of a grueling brunch shift during the first couple months I lived in NYC. He appears to be sitting ‘in the 20s’ (that is, the group of tables outside and to the left of the restaurant, a location that I always thought smelled a lot like rotting rat and a location at which it was possible to sneak behind that greenery shrouding his left elbow and hide for a moment, catch one’s breath, bury one’s forehead in one’s hand, flex one’s stiff toes inside one’s shoes, that sort of thing).”

Lauren Rodrigue’s dissection of a series of Ryan Gosling paparazzi pics as they related to her own work history just gets better from there.

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