Laughing Stock Farm
The second worst table in my life..............
It went like this:Good evening, welcome to _____ my name is Laura and I will be taking care of you tonight. May I get you a cocktail or glass of wine to start?
No. We will order wine when we order our meals.(4 people at the table, 2 couples, mid 60's, well dressed, aquaintences of the owner)
Excellent, let me tell you about our dinner specials that are not on the menu (tell them about the specials). I will put some bread in the oven and I will be right back.
Um, I want a glass of _______ to drink.
Excellent! I will be right back
Get the wine........take it to the table. Run to the kitchen, get hot bread out of the oven and take it to the table.
I also have 4 people at another table, and 3 at another table, 2 at a forth table. So while this table is 'deciding' I attend to my other tables. My 2 ladies are finished and leave.
After about 10 min I return to the table
Have we made a decision on dinner tonight?
Yes, we want _______ and _________ as an appetizer.
Great! Have we made a decision on a wine?
Go get the appetizers, then we will order wine.
Ok
Bring the ap's.
Have we made a decision on the wine.
Yes we will have the ________. ((Our CHEAPEST red wine))
I bring it and 4 glasses back to the table. I pour the wine.
Um, don't you have big bowls?
((A. we don't serve the crystal bowls with the lesser expensive wine. B. we don't have 4 that match because last week a guest broke 3 of them.))
No sir, I don't have 4 that match, and they are all out on tables.
THEN THE NAME DROPPING BEGINS.........he tells me how he knows the owners wife, and how he knows the owners wifes sister, bla bla, and how last time he was in he got the big glasses...........
So, I go to find, big glasses..........
I find 4 large white glasses.....you can use red or white in them, but tradionally, they are white glasses.
I brought them to the table and asked if these would be acceptable.
He snorted "that's more like it".....acting like his "name dropping" got him what he wanted.
So the rest of the evening was like this. Shoving dirty plates in my face, shooing me off like a fly.........generally treating me like refuse on the bottom of his shoe.
I tell my boss. I am T I C K E D off.
Boss says "he's gonna leave you a big fat tip".
Yeah, they split the bill
$70.60 each
One tipped me $12.00, the other, $13.00.
My boss was so embarrassed he used foul language.
I am a server. Not serVANT.
I am not your indentured slave that you can humilate, degrade, and talk down to. I am a human being. I am not a fly to be shooed away. I am not your puppet to run all over the restaurant to flex your power and muscles...............
I am ALSO the last person to touch your food before you eat.
I have waited tables for 26 years and never have I touched a persons meal, reguardless of how horrifying they have treated me.
But.
I have seen others do terrible things.
The worst I have done is serve regular cappuccion's and coffee when decaff was asked for...........
But I am the exception to the rule.
Torn
I know everyone has seen the Tom and Jerry cartoons, where the devil is on one shoulder encouraging Tom to chase Jerry, and the Angel is on the other shoulder discouraging the chase.I am having a Tom and Jerry Day and it's not even 9:00!
What I should do:
Take a shower, put on nice clothes, fix my hair and make up, put on a smile, and a cheerful heart, get downstairs, make breakfast for my family, clean up the mess, set out lunch and dinner, begin laundry, sweep mop vacuum, wash the windows, get out in the garden pick clean and can my tomatoes, seed my sunflower heads, apply mulch around my fruit trees, put in my flower bulbs for next year, make lunch for my family, clean up the mess, wash my apron in the laundry, go out to the grocery and buy next weeks food, put it away, sort thru the bills, start dinner, make dinner for my family, clean it up, sit with my dh and listen to him-encourage him-etc., serve desert and clean it up, tidy up the house before bed and the head upstairs for the night................
What I want to do:
Tear out the dead in my east gardens and plant bulbs, remulch my trees and tie them up, pick all tomatoes and can, remulch the raspberries, take a shower and then lay on the couch and watch football all day.
What I will end up doing today:
Making a menu-grocerylist-then shopping.
Pet store to exchange leash and get dog treats.
Exchange broken cheese grater at another store.
Pick up paint samples at the hardware store.
Come home.
Put away groceries. Set out dinner.
Clean off back deck
Pick-can all tomatoes
Pull out dead stuff in east flower bed
Get bills out, write checks
Clean house (this is about a 3 hour job)
Empty trash - take to curb
Make dinner
Make lists of what I didn't get done and carry it over to the next days list. Which is full of running too..............
*sigh*
I just want to be a mom and wife when I grow up..........
Budget Friendly supper....
Since moving to the new homestead, our expenses have triple as far as groceries and gas. I have had to be creative as far as groceries are concerned. I am literally spending a fortune and can not wait to get some deer in the freezer but until then, we are trying to do some meatless dishes. Here is tonight’s recipe, super easy!!!!
Black Beans and Rice
I soaked my black beans all day and put them in a bean pot at about 3:00. I covered them with water about 2 inches above the beans. I added salt, pepper, garlic powder and 1 Tbsp. of oil and started to boil them. I turned them down to a simmer after bringing them to a boil. I simmered them for about 2 1/2 hours. After about an hour I started my brown rice. After the beans and rice were cooked, I added some rotel to the beans and simmered it for about 15 minutes. In a bowl I put rice and then topped it with the bean mixture. We added cheese and sour cream to our beans and rice. It was so delicious. We don't feel deprived at all.
Blessings,
Trixi
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