When everything irritates you....

There are days when you take everything in stride and nothing bothers you. But every irritable thing seems magnified, when you have the granddaddy of all colds. You know the feeling….your sinuses are so stuffed up that you become a mouth breather….on the plus side, you can still breath, but then your lips and throat get all dried out…..it takes a good 15 seconds to get that sneeze out, and you sneeze so hard it feels like half your brain is gonna shoot out….of course then there are those intermittent periods when your nose decides (all on it’s own) to suddenly run, and your standing at a table taking an order….and then all that is topped off by the coughing fits, in which you’re sure you’re going to hack up lung……

With all that being said, enter the first two customers of the day…..being the first two, they have their choice of EVERY table in the place….. So they choose one, sit down, peruse the menu, and then decide they want to switch tables…..great…..not that it’s a huge deal…. pulling the extra settings from the new table, resetting the old one…..but any movement I make seems to resonate with each step, sending that echo effect from my feet to my snot-filled head.

Then there’s that darn tea box! Two women at another table decide they want hot tea…”Do you have any green tea?” “I’ll bring out the tea box.” I hate the tea box, it’s a monumental waste of time. It’s big, it’s cumbersome, and it means an extra trip to the table…..invariably people stare at it, for a long period of time as though they had suddenly lost the ability to read. And they ALL ask the same question…..”Do have more tea in the back?” C’mon people! There are 10 different teas in the box! Choose one! Why would we be hiding more in the back?!? Finally, after poking through all the neat little stacks of tea packets, (to see if we had anything hidden underneath the packets on top), They point, and say “I’ll take that one.” You mean to tell me that after practically rearranging the entire box…you’ve suddenly lost the ability to pull one packet out?

Let’s not forget the coffee drinkers…the one’s who point at their half filled cup and tell you, “This coffee is cold, bring me a fresh cup.” Are you new to drinking coffee? Do you not realize that when you pour a hot beverage into a cup, let it sit for 15 minutes, that eventually it will cool to room temperature?

I feel like crap, and you’re being a moron….all I want to do right now is sneeze on you.