While Taking a Break From Jury Duty

I was excused for lunch today while serving on a jury. I only had an hour, so I went to the first restaurant in walking distance from the Courthouse. While waiting for the waitress to take my order, I looked up at the TV screen mounted on the wall in front of me. There was our own Joan Holloway looking down at me. At least, it was the actress that portrays her. The sound was off so I have no idea what the show was, but after giving my order I sat and watched. It became a game to pretend that it really was Joan Holloway and to make up a story to go along with her actions on the TV screen. As I watched, Joan sat at a table with a large hairy man and the two of them ate from about 4 different pies scattered over the table. Joan very kindly got up and fetched the milk and poured him a glass. I did not get the sense he had to remind her as the rat doctor did when they ate Chinese. Apparently the man's name was Pookie Bear, and Joan, after eating quite a lot of pie, then proceeded to buy a gun from him - no doubt inspired by thoughts of said rat doctor. When next Joan appeared on the scene, about the time my turkey sandwich arrived, she was putting on a trench coat and seemed to be arguing with a small Asian man in a baseball cap. She kept offering him money, and he kept refusing it. Then he suddenly grabbed her and began pulling her through the door of the apartment she was in into the hallway. She fought him off, and they argued for awhile, and then he grabbed her again, and again tried to remove her from the apartment. Again she desperately fought him off. Again they argued, while she seemed to be encouraging him, and this time he got behind her and succeeded in shoving her out the door into the hallway and slamming the apartment door closed. As Joan stood there gasping for breath looking haunted and hunted, I could only assume she was late for a date with the rat doctor and trying desperately to get out of it. Suddenly she noticed the gun which had fallen out of her purse onto the floor. She picked it up and seem heartened by the feel of the pistol in her hand. Things do not look good for the rat doctor. The screen went to commercials and some other stuff then, but just as my check came, Joan reappeared and seemed to be offering a gift wrapped box to some guy who looked like an extra from The Sopranos. When he opened it, it was full of fishing flies, some of which seemed to have been made from that awful hair piece Joan usually wears on Mad Men. On this particular show her lovely red hair was loose around her pretty face and a huge improvement it was over the ugly hairpiece, let me tell you. At that point, I had to leave and rush back to the Courthouse. I have no idea how the TV show ended, but I continue to be bemused by the pie eating episode and the box of fishing flies. Our Joan is clearly leading a double life.....