RTP-area local music and culture

[John Iwaniszek <not AT hotmail.com>]

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.."