I worked a double shift last Friday, actually got about an hour and a half off in between shifts. I went back for the evening shift….was looking forward to NOT having to close. The night was going well, then around 8:00, the manager asks me if I can come in Saturday morning and work a memorial lunch. Fine. Okay. At least I get out early tonight.
Saturday morning, I’m driving to work, the boss calls to let me know the luncheon party will be arriving an hour earlier then we expected. Great. That gives us thirty minutes to do an hour and a half set up. And, I have to stop and pick up one of the other servers.
When I arrived, my partner was already there. We ran around setting up the tables. The only thing on the tables were the napkins. She ran in circles around the tables moving the napkins so we could put down bread and butter plates, I was running behind her setting down the menus, then we both ran around and put the napkins back on top of the menus. (Sometimes things work best when you work in tandem)
Okay, silverware is all set, gotta fill the water glasses and get those out, carafes of water for each table, butter and cream, get the coffee going, get glasses for iced tea and other soft drinks, a bucket of ice, get bread baskets ready…are we forgetting anything? Oh well, if so, we’ll have to get it on the fly. Oh shit! We need lemons for iced tea!
Anyways, it all got done. The folks arrived, everything went smoothly. Turns out we were actually glad they came in an hour early, that way we’ll have more of a break before the night shift, since we were both working doubles that day. Or so we thought. We thought wrong. As folks were getting up to leave (or so we thought, again) they were just regrouping and standing around the room (totally blocking our entrance to the room) talking some more. A lot more. This went on for about 45 minutes. When they were finally down to about a dozen, they decided to sit down again. Really?!? C’mon people! We gotta get this room cleaned up!
So much for our nice long break.
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