The Waiting Chronicles: Yea...We're gonna need you to come in on friday too...mmmkk...yea that would be great.

I hate it when people don't do their jobs correctly. This complicates mine greatly. ..

So I am usually very proficient about remembering my schedule and coming to work when I'm supposed to and not going when I don't have too. Well on Friday I was excited because I had looked on my schedule and saw that I didn't even have to go into work at all. So I am just being lazy and having a great time doing it.

Around 12:00 all of that changed...I get a call from not just a manager but the general manager of our store. He says me "Hey Doug! Where are you?" "At home." I replied. "Well you were supposed to be here over an hour ago." As my heart stops I hear myself say "I could have sworn that I wasn't on the schedule today." He continues by telling me " No, I have you written in right here." Now what am I supposed to say," Uh...no...I think your wrong." or "Wow I apologize and will be there as soon as I possibly can." I went with the later.

Twenty minutes later I was showered, had a freshly starched shirt, and had driven ten minutes to work. All this time all I could think was "I'm going to be fired for this. ..Yep I'm going to be fired for this." So I walk in and can see that the place is packed and that there is a lonely four table section with nobody in it. I immediately concluded which section was supposed to be mine. As I walk into the back with my head down in shame I pass by my fellow waiters and find that none of them are speaking to me( a bad sign). I am in the process clocking in and can see my manager coming towards me( a worse sign). I gather up all of my strength and prepare for the onslaught. He then greets me with " Hey man I figured out what happened." Not exactly the verbal abuse I was expecting. He continues to tell me that on their big manager key, they had me down to work. On my schedule, however, there was a blank because whoever wrote it up had forgotten to put that little piece of information in. The manager then asks me if I would stay on because he could really use my help. So I stay and helped until we were not on wait anymore. Once I was off the manager buys me lunch for helping him out in a jam.

So I went on a roller-coaster ride of emotions on Friday all to get a free meal and a lousy 22 dollars. All I can say is this...Come Monday there are going to be three people that defiantly hear from me.

A new line of thought...

So I came up with a new idea for a post. I call it "THE WAITING CHRONICLES."

In this series of post I will weekly(yes weekly for the skeptics) about a particular interesting story that happened to me while waiting tables. I thought that this might be a good opportunity for me to start posting on a regular basis. Please comment and tell me what you think.

The Waiting Chronicles: Something Amazing that happened today...

So I was at work today waiting on tables and it was kinda getting slow. I only have one table and it doesn't look like I'm not going to get too many more. So I go to check on my table and see that I have a new one. So I go and do my usual greet the table "Hello how are you today.? What can I get you started with to drink?" The woman replies that she wants a sweet tea. So I bring it out to her and ask her what she wants to order a Steak and Shrimp so i ask her what sides she wants and how she wants her steak cooked, blah blah blah, as I'm about to leave I thought I heard her say something about an Apple Pie. I jump on that to see if she would like one. She told me that she was unsure, so I tell her that she can decide later if she wants. So I go by the table a few more times and see that she has her head down on her arms. This is a very strange position for one of my guests to be in. I figure that she is tired and don't really think about it anymore. So I get her food out and see if she did in fact want that apple pie. She said that she really wanted to because it was her birthday. This woman was by herself on her birthday!!! When she told me this I immediately felt like I should have talked to her ,given her free food or something. Anything to brighten her obviously dark day. In the end see decided that she did want the Pie. Usually when I find out that it is one of my guests birthdays (and they order a desert) I will right "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on their plate. So for this Apple pie I decided to do something different. I wanted to give her something special. So I wrote all over the outside of the plate "HAVE A NICE AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY". OK so maybe not the best thought-out phrase but I was working as fast as I could. When I brought it out to her she laughed and said that it was very nice. Soon after that she asked for a to-go box. So I bring her one and with it her ticket. She payed me with a hundred dollar bill and wanted change. I bring her change out to her and she gives me twenty of it back and said these words "It was nice to smile today. Thank you" I almost melted on the spot.Amazing, I was able to change this woman's whole day for the better just because of what I did for her. I almost gave her a hug but she was already out of the door. That is the kind of thing that I love about my job that only happens very rarely.

I love this...

Vector Tower Defense
Another Tower Defense Game

Can you get to fifty?

I want one...

I don't think im the only one either. let me know what you think of the new macbook pro

I hate working in a restaurant

Last night i had one of the best and worst nights in my history of working in restaurants. I had to wait on the rudest people i have ever encountered in my life. Not only were they picky but they were impatient as all get out. To them THEY were the only people in the whole entire place who had needs. These people were so short sited that they couldn't see the other tables i had right beside them that i was also having to take care of. We had people on a wait list from the time i got there till about thirty minutes till close. That means from 4 in the afternoon till about 10:30 at night we had people waiting for tables. That is insane. So before people got to my tables they were already irritable and cranky and then the hostess sends them to me. I just wish that people could see that i am a server not a servant!

on a side note i made $103 dollars last night. that is the only thing that made last night almost bearable.

The worst thing in the world...

THE COLD SHOWERS!!!!

My kidnappers "Carnival"...

I just was released from my kidnappers only yesterday and i must recount my experience...

...It was fantastic...

I had a bunch of fun. I loved almost everything about this cruise. The food was amazing and the environment was just as good. The service that we received was really pretty good. I did miss breakfast on one occasion but the fixed the problem after I left so I still give them credit for trying. The off-shore excursions were amazing. I got to ride a 4-wheeler through a sisal plantation in our first stop Progreso. We got incredibly dirty and it was fantastic. When we stopped in Cozumel, we went to a place where we were not only allowed to touch dolophins, but they took us for a ride. Too cool for this blog to write about.

Over all this was a really fun vacation. That will stick in my memory for a long time to come and I hope that everyone can Cruise sometime in there life. If you do i encourage you to go on Carnival. It was amazing.

How Dr.Pepper saved and ruined my life...

Hello out there to the handful of people who actually read this blog....

anyway i thought that i would update y'all on what is going on with the gig I'm doing for Grace Bible. We started practice last night and we were really jamming. Justin Romack, an excellent host by the way, had asked me to go and get a tasty beverage for him. I obliged thinking that i could also benefit from this Dr.Pepper run. Now the machine that i went to has a history. It has been said that if you press a certain button one could receive two drinks for the price of one. i had my hopes up to maybe find this magic from the machine. i was disappointed to not receive two drinks for the price of one. Yes i put in 75 cents and heard thunk...thunk thunk. I looked down in puzzlement and low and behold...three shiny, ice cold Dr.Peppers. Needless to say i was pleased.

However my pleasure was soon thwarted by the very thing that so satisfied me earlier. i had set my beverage on my brand new Fender Rumble Series 100 watt amplifier...you see where this is going. as we were rocking our faces off, i grew tired and sat down on the mentioned amp above and did not pay attention to where i was going. and then...sploosh...(silent screams). And as i gently set down my bass on the floor and fling my headphones to the ground i run to the only place i could think of...the bathroom. i got all of the paper towels that i could and tried to save my baby. luckily i think that i saved my amp in time and no harm was done. but it was very nerve racking for a few minute ts.

so there you go the first update to the gig. hopefully there will be more

Addiction

so i heard that the first step to recovery is to admit that i have a problem so... I have an addiction...I love the X files.

So go ahead and laugh that was my reaction to when i first started watching. I cant quite place my love for it but it is just like Doritos commercials, you cant watch just one. David pointed out that the episodes don't really wrap up all of the loss ends, it just kinda ends. Which is true but you can still find me at home probably rolling through another season of X-files. I'm up to season three...Am i a nerd...on second thought don't answer that. Tell me what slightly nerdy T.V. shows that you are in love with. Don't be shy we wouldn't want any Alias' to pop up.

wow

OK so i know that its been a while, my life has been nuts for the past few weeks. I'I've been wanting to post for a while now and i think that i finally found something worth posting.

Have you ever felt like you were the only person in the world that suffers, and that if other people were suffering yours was far worse than theirs? dumb question because we all have at one point or another. Over the past few months i have felt like this, because of failing out of southwestern, and a few other things, I've just been kinda down. Ive been going to counseling and it has helped tremendously. one of the things that was most helpful to me was watching this video that is at the bottom of this posting. It put things into perspective for me, and showed me that i really needed to check myself when i thought "How could things get any worse?" I hope that this story helps you as much as it did me. I know that its a little long but it is worth every minute.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glrU4JKV1SI

My first post...

Well I've been struggling for a while on deciding to get a blog. My main problem was trying to figure out what I would write about. I couldn't decide what kind of blogger would I be. I finally decided that i would write about things that made me laugh, or things that puzzle me. I hope that there will be many more of these postings. So here is something that I found today that made me giggle.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/al_qaeda_also_fed_up_with_ground

Hop you enjoyed it as much as I did.