There's always one.....

Okay, I worked a shower the other day…..I was scheduled for noon, that meant (according to standard procedure) that the start time of the shower was 1:30. I was already irritated when I had to wash knives, I couldn’t find any because there were 3 other parties going on.

Then I hear them talking…blah blah blah…”No, the invitations said to be here at 1:00.”

OH shit, now I gotta double time it. Went and recruited some help……forgot about the knives for a few minutes…did some other stuff…looked at the decorations they put on the table…..OH! I forgot about the knives! Went and grabbed them…..I’m on the third out of four tables, and one woman looks over and says, “That table doesn’t have any knives.”

Okay, so you’ve got a keen eye for the obvious, HOWEVER……….you lose any possible points that may have been added to your I.Q. because what you FAILED to notice was that I had a handful of knives, and I was presently setting them out.

Then I realized, oh, this is the one.

There’s always one woman who is in charge, and she let’s you know it. Then there’s that family member, that for 30 years they have let think she too, is in charge, but they never let her do anything. They’re the ones who usually try and tell the server what to do. We usually ignore them.

Just as I set the last of 32 filled water glasses on the tables, the same woman walks over and asks for a glass of water. (You’re kidding me, right?) So I made a sweeping arm gesture so as to include the entire room…..”Go ahead, take one. Preferably where you will be sitting.”

The cake was made by one of the women attending the shower….it was really pretty…all covered in fondant. When I picked it up to carry it to the back to slice it….I realized it was pretty heavy. I also didn’t know how small the pedestal was that it was sitting on, so when I had half the cake sliced, the cake slid backwards off the pedestal, the pedestal rolled away. Did I mention the table was covered with plates of cake? So the fondant sure came in handy in preventing any damage to the cake. Just to put your mind at ease, miraculously no cake was harmed in the incident.

And the water lady never bothered me again. (Ya gotta nip that crap in the bud.)