So Derrick and I decided to go to the mall in Braintree on Saturday. For some reason it's the only mall in the Boston area that has both a J. Crew and an H&M. After a while we got hungry and decided to eat at the Cheesecake Factory.
After waiting for an hour to be seated, we're seated outside. We place our food order and then I get up to go to the bathroom. While walking back to the bathroom I see a couple of little boys standing there looking towards a booth that's kind of hidden behind a plant. Then their mom comes up behind them and says "Don't bother him. He's eating." So as I walk past the booth to go back outside I glance in that direction to see who's there. I see two attractive, athletic looking guys with shaved heads. The one I see more clearly kind of looked like David Beckham.
I get back to our table and tell Derrick what I've just seen about the kids and the guy who looks like Beckham. He says things like "Are you sure it wasn't Tom Brady?" and "Maybe it's one of the Red Sox." I decide that they must be athletes, because I would have recognized actors, but that they aren't hugely muscular or tall so they probably aren't basketball or football players.
A couple minutes later the guy that didn't look like Beckham comes to the patio door with one of the waiters, points to a table in the center of the patio, says "Yeah, with the three women there", then goes back inside. The waiter then goes over to the table with the three women and says something to them, then two of them head inside. They return five minutes later.
Meanwhile, at the table next to us, are two middle aged couples getting increasingly drunk. One of the couples seems to be having some marital issues (something about the wife going out with a male friend and the husband finding out about it from someone else) that they were receiving advice about from the other couple. It's very strange.
So after a while we notice that a crowd has gathered outside the patio area and a lot of people are pointing cameras towards the restaurant. We figure word had gotten around about whoever is in there. Derrick gets up to go to the bathroom and to look at the table on his way back. While he's gone the waitress comes to take our plates away so I ask her who it is that's causing all the commotion. She says "It's David Beckham." This is when Derrick comes back and I tell him it turns out I was right all along. Derrick then asks her if she knows why he's here. She explains that the Boston soccer team (who I now know are called the Revolution) plays at Foxborough and he's there for a game. Derrick says that Beckham was signing autographs and taking pictures with people as he had walked by.
At this point I text some people to let them know. As we're getting our check we see him leave towards the outside of the mall. The guy he's with opens the door to the restaurant for him, then opens the door of a gray Jeep Cherokee. Before he gets in he smiles and waves at people while some TV cameras shine bright lights in his face. Then the Jeep drives away. As we're driving home Derrick comments on the fact that the most famous person I've ever seen was in Braintree, Mass, and not in LA.