And the days have suddenly gone insane, previously, busy, but in spurts of an hour, now, 2, 3 hours, non-stop all day, people have gotten used to higher prices, it's the same all over, everywhere, there's no getting away from it, patio, restaurant, full, if you're lucky 3 staff, usually just two.
Full on gong show.
Tell the customers - "Sit at any Clean Table", and they'll undoubtedly find the dirtiest table, husband gotten up to pay, wife in bathroom with child, and seat themselves there, like swine the lure of filth is too attractive and steam whistling from my ears they pretend not to understand English.
Sunday, Monday, we're busy, Tuesday the pace is furious, we're the only show open between Nelson and Nakusp, and paving & construction on the road means no one is taking the time to go to town.
Manners, people, manners, and did the Pandemic teach you nothing?
That said, there's the regulars, who've gotten used to it, and so you do what you can when thrown in the trenches but what you can is seldom enough.
7 weeks left of this, the full tilt madness, then it will drop an order of magnitude, things will once again be manageable, but surviving these 8, 9 hour days until then, I'm not sure there's enough Vodka in all the Kootenays...
On a more pleasant note, a rather charming drawing of yours truly done by a child customer when I attempted to ID her for her Shirley Temple...
The resemblance is obvious.