MOVE!!!!!!

To my sheer delight, I got to go in to work at 6:30 a.m. yesterday. We had a breakfast for 75, at 7:30. They stated arriving at about 7:00. By 7:30, I’d hit my idiot limit for the day. These people stood around and blocked EVERY aisle way, and the door to the wait station, which leads to the kitchen. (I’m not sure they figured out, that that is where the food comes from.)

My polite “Excuse me” changed to “Hot coffee coming through! Watch out!” Every time I had to come out of the wait station, I had had to get them out of the doorway, and as soon I passed, they would go back to their original formation. It never occurred to them that we would have to pass back through there. (Idiots)

One guy stopped me and asked “When are we going to eat?” “Soon.” (I wasn’t real big on conversation at this time) So then he starts rambling on about how he usually eats much earlier than this and he’s hungry blah blah blah….when I was reasonably sure he was done prattling on, I said “Oh” and walked away.

A few minutes later, I fought my way through this crowd of totally lacking any sense of situational awareness morons, to refill the coffee cups of the two drinking decaf. (Who drinks decaf at 7:30 in the morning?!?) As I was pouring, one woman asked, “Is that decaf?” “Yes it is.” “Why are you pouring it is that cup?” “Because that’s what she was drinking.” “How do you know that?” “Because she’s (Why am I even having this conversation?) standing right here.” I pointed out the woman, as I felt adding visuals was the only way to get my point across. Shame on me for not knowing that the woman asking the questions was appointed to the Coffee Police Committee.

They were just as clueless when it came to bringing out hot pans of food. As they were going through the buffet line I guess they felt it was their duty to tell us what we already knew. “We’re out of eggs!” I replied, “We are aware of that.” As I am standing behind them with a new pan of eggs….but they would stand and stare at the not quite empty egg pan for a minute before allowing me access to the table to put down the fresh pan.

I was thinking perhaps we should get some of the 80 teachers (holding an all day seminar in the room downstairs) to come up and explain fire safety, and why it’s necessary to keep the aisle ways open, and maybe run a fire drill.