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  • From: John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Note to waitpersons
  • Date: 17 Jan 2005 17:00:06 GMT

rws6 wrote:

> please. this has to stop.
>
> listen. i used to wait tables. i am too uptight to ever have brazenly
> asked somebody if they need change. waiters typically do this for two
> reasons:
>
> 1) they want to save a trip (as grady suggests).
> 2) some people get very annoyed when you bring change to them
> (seriously).
>
> so, on the one hand, you've got your gradys: simmering in their
> annoyance at the repeated violation of a hitherto unannounced social
> taboo. on the other hand, you've got your no-changers, ready to plunge
> into the sautee of animosity at the suggestion that they did not include
> your tip in their overage. what does a poor waiter do?
>
> here's my solution: grab money from table, thank patron, while still
> looking him/her/them in the eye(s), announce "i'll be right back with
> change," and wait a beat. the gradies look relieved, and the
> no-changers have the opportunity to announce, magnimously, "there's no
> need!"
>
> please, let's get back to talking about how fucking over rock music is
> anymore.
>
> r.
>

I am cycling through my Johnny Cash LPs. Nothing beats the sound of a room
full of convicts cheering when Johnny says, "I killed a man in Reno, just to
watch him die.."




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