Surveying the scene, Mr. Johnson smiled and said he expected that after Mr. Romney won, he would come back and stay at the Waldorf when he had to be in New York for official business.
I wasn't expecting that". He smiled and told me it was normal.
Always put on a big smile and expect that you are going to have a good time and meet some great people.
Black people know that there's a game, that we're all expected to smile and shake hands and play nice, but we can never forget who created the game and who sets the rules – and that any deviation from those rules looks different on us than it does on someone white and male.
It wasn't smiling and expecting that would be enough.
It probably never crossed that reporter's mind to ask a male athlete why he wasn't smiling, because men are not expected to smile the same way women are -- and that is the kind of thinking that needs to change.
We are expected to smile while up against the gender pay gap, a working world that does not guarantee paid maternity leave or family leave or child care, and a society that tells us our greatest value still lies in the way we look and our ability to attract heterosexual male attention.
Mr. Creamer, 47, an English teacher and longtime atheist who grew up in a family of Free Will Baptists, is constantly urging club members to "be friendly, put on those smiles — people don't expect that from atheists".
But if Jun-chan does mess up the economy, don't expect the smiles to last.
So, between launching the 2011 Jetta with Katy Perry and preparing his PBS series with Gwenyth Paltrow, you might expect the smiling, rotund culinary genius to get a little exhausted.
