I think that my all-time favorite Cinco de Mayo was four years ago in Brooklyn, with my pals Helen and Sharon. We had dinner at a happening place, in our very own neighborhood, that I had wanted to try for awhile. There\u2019s a street not far from my house there that\u2019s its own little restaurant row, which features many ethnic eateries. And guess what the moniker of this particular restaurant is? Cinco de Mayo!!! How ideal was\u00a0that<\/em>?! I love when things work out perfectly like that! (And the food was good, too. If I still had my New York abode, I would return for that meal many a time.)<\/p>\n I don\u2019t drink at all, and certainly not tequila, but bring on the guacamole and Mexican coke! If ever there was an excuse to drink that favorite beverage of mine, this was it! [Note: I stopped drinking soda shortly after that, so this turned-out to be sort-of my last hurrah in that category.]<\/p>\n Cinco De Mayo restaurant on Cortelyou Road. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n Okay, I have to tell you this quick little apropos story, which happened right now! Here I am, working on this column in the middle of the night, and because I can’t sleep, yet am too bleary-eyed to actually\u00a0write\u00a0<\/em>anymore, I decided to start looking for images to go along with this article. So, after surfing the web and choosing some of the cute cartoonish ones, I thought that I should try to find a photo of the restaurant I mentioned above. There were only a few of those, and the very first one that came up in my Google search was the best one, by far. So, I saved it, and then decided to search through my\u00a0personal<\/em>\u00a0pix to see if maybe I took any the night I was at the eatery with my friends. And voila\u2014there they were, right in a folder on my desktop! But imagine my shock when I realized that one of them was…the pic I had just taken off the web! Yet here it was in my own personal taken-by-me photos from my last hurrah in Brooklyn! So, I went back and checked Google, and it said, \u201cPhoto by Karen Salkin.\u201d I had published it three years ago, when I was looking back on my last weeks in my house there!!! OMG\u2014that really jolted me awake!\u00a0 It made me feel so famous! So, here it is for you guys now, courtesy of…ME!!!<\/p>\n![\"Screen](\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-17-at-4.51.06-PM-e1525368503206.png\")
<\/a>This date was especially festive during my clubbing years, when I would get together with a few hundred of my close, personal friends. Everybody seems to be\u00a0especially happy and crazy when\u00a0pi\u00f1atas\u00a0and tacos abound. Even donning a sombrero, and perhaps a fake mustache, as well, get revelers in the right mood. Add a mariachi band, and you\u2019re all set for some real Mexican entertainment!<\/p>\n<\/a>