The Devil's Trill
As my dreams have been a bit of a bust lately (today, after my nap, a classic waiter's nightmare: At the restaurant, tables keep coming in and I can't keep up, there are different rooms and every time I discover a different room I discover even more tables I have to get to and visit....and when I'm visiting them, I fall asleep....) I've thought to enclose somebody elses.
Tartini's "The Devil's Trill"
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Bosses Nephew (2)
"You Lazy" he says, then corrects himself: "You're lazy!".
He's annoyed because the new manager has called him lazy and told on him to his pa. Now the new manager isn't one exactly to be throwing stones, and really, it's such a small arena and we're all in it together and small trifles like this annoy him, annoy everyone.
It's true he's lazy, but he also puts in the overtime and shows up on his days off to make sure things are running smoothly. And he's the boss's nephew and so he's not going anywhere and like so many things in the restaurant, you just have to work around it.
So now he's trying to wind me up: "You Lazy" he says to me, hoping for some reaction. I just laugh. And he starts in on how he hates working with all the girls, girls have no place in this restaurant, it's fine dining, they're all lazy, they have no class, and I get to listen.
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Why I don't hang out with staff...
So we start at 2:00 PM on Saturday, there's going to be a camera crew and such filming at the restaurant. The restaurant's had a lot of good press lately, and they're taking it a bit further by having some online videos and such of the staff and food. There's a local news celebrity and sports hero officiating, this I know only because staff is quick to explain to me, not having a TV makes me a bit out of touch.
For dinner we've arranged a long table in the main dining room and the owner has outdone himself with dinner for staff and a few bottles of wine. This doesn't bode well, good spirits in the end will sour...
And G has taken issue with the owner's decision to have a girl doing the serving in the video, he feels that after 10 years it's his right, his due, and he has a fight with the manager, harsh words are exchanged, it wasn't her decision, and G in retaliation tears upon all of the waitresses and other staff.
It's ridiculous, and to add to it G has broken down and is crying. I'm not so good with crying women, let alone men, and there's still 2 hours to go before the shift starts. It's going to be a long night.
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Scratch Lottery Tickets
In the realm of the more day-to-day treasures, a statistician out of Toronto cracks the Scratch Lottery Ticket Code, then turns over his findings to the lottery board because he calculates he can only make around $600.00 a day at it, and it isn't worth his while....
I almost wonder if the Lottery Board itself doesn't put out these news releases, knowing that the number of would-be ticket crackers will fill their pockets far more than the successful ones. I do know that even if he did crack the code, it's unlikely that there's been any great overhaul on the ticket printing process.
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