We must be able to laugh at ourselves...and our own...

Because we must be multi-taskers extrodinaire...there are some who are just not cut out for this line of work.....

One evening several of us were watching...(some from different vantage points)..as a fellow server was trying desperately to cut the foil from the top of a wine bottle.....after digging away, (for a few minutes) with the miniature knife on the wine key....and getting nowhere.....the server finally realized that this was a screw cap bottle.....What's that you say.....did any of us walk over and try to help? What, and ruin a good show?!?

Then there are the ones who have a (as in singular) table...and immediately go into panic mode....Hey Bob! (for lack of a better name) Can you.... "Not right now...I have to get two pepsis and a wine!!!"....as he makes a heavy-footed dash through the restaurant...slightly bent over as if he were heading into a wind tunnel.. face in a concentrated scowl...."Okay...no one talk to Bob until the shift is over...he's gonna short-circuit"

Who can resist cracking up when an entire tray of food goes down...right to the floor...the sound of the plates crashing, draws attention to this unfortunate turn of events....likes moths to a flame....suddenly the manager (who no one could find 5 minutes ago)...is standing in the midst of this carnage of what was once a dinner for four...looking like a deer in the headlights.....the chef is throwing fits....(just to be stereotypical)...the server is trying to inconspicuously side step away...several other servers are re-routing themselves through the restaurant,just to get a better look....and the busser (the only using any common sense here) meanders over with a broom and dust pan and begins cleaning up...(just another day in the life....)

And then there are the oil slicks...these are formed when the bread dipping oil (which we have to pour from a too large awkward container..into a too small container, c'mon, the writings on the wall) and it inadvertently ends up on the floor....the best way to clean this up is to pour semolina flour on it....we all quickly say "SHHHHH!!!" when one semi-clueless server yells, "Someone get the salmonella!"