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Without the slightest trace of irony....
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's a busy day. And at lunch a couple of the servers cut early, leaving the Bosses Nephew and I to finish up.
It's busy, but we can handle it. The owner, he looks for the missing staff, can't find them. I tell them they're gone. And there's a couple of minutes, a couple of minutes only, where we fall behind, the Nephew, he's not so strong, doesn't speak English well enough to answer the phone, he isn't really a big help.
In the evening the boss goes on a tirade. There's the "You fucking lazy bastards" and all sorts of permutations, he's having his monthly rant. Mostly I just ignore it, but it casts a pall over the shift and the staff. He goes on for about half an hour, then "You are all fucking-a taking advantage of my kindness ....".
Customers come in and it's a bit of a relief, he compensates for his earlier tantrum by being extra nice to the customers.
I go for a cigarette. There's a customer pulled up in the back parking lot, he's having some trouble, I walk over to assist him. "Are you wheelchair accessible?" he asks, and as I begin to explain that we'll need to assist him over a short step "No shortage of help" I assure him, he begins to swear, we've misrepresented (in his opinion) our handicapped and wheelchair-accessible options....I walk away. Even I have my limits. He calls me back, apologetic he's assuring me that he still intends to come in for dinner (and I'm not so thrilled, the wheelchair appearing to be the least of his handicaps...).
The customer gets inside (without my help) and the Owner calls me over - "Was he just rude to you guys?" he asks, and I begin to explain and the owner interrupts - "because we don't need any fucking rude-a people around here, we can just-a kick him out..."
Without the slightest trace of irony.
100 Billion Pennies
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Lost
- Hits: 2005
Or, roughly 1 Billion dollars in lost pennies throughout the USA. Of course, the 1 billion dollars is face value only, rarer pennies will be more valuable, and so probably that figure is closer to a couple of billion dollars.
Source: The MegaPenny Project
Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A Japanese woman who lives in Tokyo and takes pictures of herself levitating. Well, not exactly, but the intent is to capture that moment in the jump where she looks perfectly poised and as if she is truly levitating or flying. In some she's quite successful...
The Wedding
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On Saturday half the restaurant is booked for a wedding.
The owner, he's optimistic that they'll be done early, "7:30" he tells us. I don't know, but I'm skeptical, most weddings I've seen go a lot later than that.
They've planned to arrive early and so the staff shows up early to set up the party. Then we eat, and the party begins to arrive in drips and drabs.
G, the Nephew and I are serving the dining room open to the general public, we've let the girls handle the wedding.
At 7:30 they still haven't been served their main courses. And by 12:00 midnight they're still there, drinking at the bar with the drunken staff members. There's the bridesmaid (being set up by the Owner with G, she's newly single - 25, and the owner confides "She wanted me...., but I'm married", and one is a little too discreet to observe that she's had enough to drink that she'd take pretty much anyone), from the tone of her remarks one gathers that she's looking hard for some revenge sex. G isn't fussed, he'll take what he can get....
And there's the bride's mother, also single and drunk and fondling G's ass, telling him how single she is and asking when he'll drive her home. G tries to look disinterested, he's not really but there's the feelings of the bridesmaid (a better deal all round) to consider...
12:30 and I'm done, it's been an extra-long day and G and the manager can close, the wedding guests, bridesmaids and mothers are still there waiting for G, for anyone really to get off work and give them a ride home. And while I should stay and help lock up, given the general level of sobriety this isn't a party that will end happy or anytime soon and so I bid them all goodnight and leave.
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