waitress
...ryone wants to get his order complied with first, when the cooks are also hot and harassed and the manager is also curt and impatient. My job becomes very hard at such times for inside the kitchen I have to be aggressive or the cooks would not attend to me at all, and outside the kitchen I have to be polite and courteous, the perfect waitress. So a complete switch-over of behavior has to take place. But towards the fag-end of the lunch hour, one can relax for by then only the leisurely business crowd is left. They linger over their meals when they want to strike a deal. It is a time that they reveal a great deal about investments. Moreover, if the deal has been an important one, the host is liberal with tips. Besides the businessmen, people who tip fairly handsomely are young lovers or a mature couple celebrating an anniversary. I have often watched love travelling its normal course through desire, happiness, courting, adoration, worry and uncertainly towards love and maturity and marriage. Life as a waitress has multiple advantages and disadvantages. First of all, I will have money to buy goods, clothes and other necessaries I need. I can go to the movies or other amusement places. Then, I have more information when I become a waitress. People sit and talk over cups of coffee and plates of sandwitches, over hamburghes and lunches and dinners and they pay little heed to the shadow figure hovering around their table, catering to their requirements and bringing things to and for. They discuss business deals and family affairs; they discuss problems, delinquent children as well as courtships and marriages. A waiter can, if he so desires, become a very knowledgeable person simply by listening to these conversations. He also learns about the happening in town and may become the best informed person regarding the scandals, next perhaps only to the barber. Not that is all pleasure and no drudgery. Its greates advantage is the crowd of people one meets. As a waitress does not meet them at a social level, there is no question of being involved. Nobody seems to mind the waitress. Restaurant is a place that I can learn more and new knowledge and experience in it. Of course, different people have different behaviours. For example, some people want to choose food theirselves; s...