My Class Picture circa 1988
I was 13 years old back in 1988. I know who Flo Jo and Greg Louganis are. I will never misspell potato. I remember President Reagan. I had a crush on Jessica Rabbit. I saw Rattle and Hum on my 13th birthday because it was rated PG-13. My girlfriend taught me to dirty dance, but I my guy friends were more into Def Leppard. I know for sure that Dan Quayle is no Jack Kennedy.
Yet, when I card someone and they were born in 1988, the math says that they are legal to drink. It doesn’t seem like 21 years ago in my head. It seems like a few years at best. It is a sign that I am getting older. When I started serving, 1973 was the magic year. I know this well because being able to convincingly turn a “75” into a “73” on a driver’s license with chalk and a mechanical pencil was worth ten bucks in my dorm. Everytime someone proudly shows me an ID with 1988 on it, my arthritis starts acting up.
The other downside of this long career is that the jokes I used starting out are no longer laughed at by most of my guests. I have retired jokes in the past due to menu changes. I miss serving duck. I never knew how to describe it, so I would often have to wing it. Guests who enjoyed it would never mind it being on their bill, even when I would serve it with a side of quackers.
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Love the photo and references to your Gramdma. A great lady
I walked right into work and made the Dione Warwick and Juan Valdez joke to my first table. Some habits die hard.
Love the photo and references to your Gramdma. A great lady
I walked right into work and made the Dione Warwick and Juan Valdez joke to my first table. Some habits die hard.
I’m a Pepper Too!
I’m a Pepper Too!
Yeah, I laughed at the Dr.Pepper joke AND I remember Juan Valdez. Great post! I’ve been waiting tables as long as you’ve been alive! Keep up the great writing!
Yeah, I laughed at the Dr.Pepper joke AND I remember Juan Valdez. Great post! I’ve been waiting tables as long as you’ve been alive! Keep up the great writing!
Someone told me a joke last night. Why did White House staffers have to get rid of the dog? It kept treeing all the coons.
Why do people think you are as racist as they are?
I pointed out it was a Portugese Water Dog and not at all useful in treeing coons.
A better joke would be, Why did the Obamas’ get a Portugese Water Dog? Because they didn’t want a coon hound treeing all their friends. If I was a racist, that is.
I once was working a slow shift when a manager got a complaint call. You can always tell a complaint call because of the profuse apologies coming out of the room. Afterwards I got called in. I was asked if I remembered any racists comments made by a table on Saturday night. I said I remembered a coworker in the same room complaining about a table that kept making racist jokes. The manager said that one of my tables had called to complain because the other server laughed at their jokes. The manager was literally ready to fire this server until I pointed out that there is no good way around it. You can’t tell them off for it. You just smile and walk away to avoid making a bigger scene of it. Then you walk back to the side station and complain about the ignorant rednecks at your table. They are obviously trying to offend someone and giving them the reaction they seek only encourages the behavior. The manager reconsidered and the server was never disciplined.
Someone told me a joke last night. Why did White House staffers have to get rid of the dog? It kept treeing all the coons.
Why do people think you are as racist as they are?
I pointed out it was a Portugese Water Dog and not at all useful in treeing coons.
A better joke would be, Why did the Obamas’ get a Portugese Water Dog? Because they didn’t want a coon hound treeing all their friends. If I was a racist, that is.
I once was working a slow shift when a manager got a complaint call. You can always tell a complaint call because of the profuse apologies coming out of the room. Afterwards I got called in. I was asked if I remembered any racists comments made by a table on Saturday night. I said I remembered a coworker in the same room complaining about a table that kept making racist jokes. The manager said that one of my tables had called to complain because the other server laughed at their jokes. The manager was literally ready to fire this server until I pointed out that there is no good way around it. You can’t tell them off for it. You just smile and walk away to avoid making a bigger scene of it. Then you walk back to the side station and complain about the ignorant rednecks at your table. They are obviously trying to offend someone and giving them the reaction they seek only encourages the behavior. The manager reconsidered and the server was never disciplined.
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