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February 16, 2005

Obscenely Early Mornings, Bagels Toasted and Loud Machines

Have you ever noticed that the night before you are supposed to be somewhere obscenely early... that you get a good 'ole case of insomnia? My alarm started going off at 3:45 this morning.. after I had tossed and turned, watched the clock, played on the computer until after 1:30am.. completely unable to sleep.

First of all, 6:30 is way too early for a restaurant to open, and knowing I had already been there an hour when we opened the doors to a non-stop drilling... I knew it was going to be a long day. Before we were even open this morning there was a group of about 10 men wanting to have a Wednesday morning bible study, complete with toasted bagels and coffee. They all showed up a good 10 minutes before we were supposed to open and started banging on the doors and waving their arms, making motions like "let us in its cold outside." All the while I'm thinking... get back in your car if your so cold. They were not in a good mood when we finally opened the door at 6:30 like we were supposed to ... I hope that bible study helped their mood because if not, I feel sorry for the people they had to work with all day.

We probably had over $1000 worth of catering and lunch boxes called in and they all wanted it ready at 11am. We were running around like chickens with no heads. Then you get the crabby professional who doesn't think they should ever have to repeat themselves. They tell you they want a bagel pack (2 things of cream cheese, and 13 bagels). You lean down to get the bagel box while they are already rattling off what kind of bagels they want. Then you have to stop them mid-sentence because the computer makes you put in the cream cheese selections first, and you have to know, of course, before you get started if they want them sliced and/or toasted. Then they tell you sliced so you turn on this 3 foot tall slicer contraption that makes more noise than my clothes dryer. As you are slicing the first 2 or 3 bagels of their selection, with this slicer humming in your ear... this impatient professional finds it necessary to rattle off all the other bagels they want... not that anyone could hear them. I finish slicing the first few bagels turn around to find out which kind they want next and then they get pissy... "I SAID" ... excuse me ma'am, if you said it while I was slicing these I couldn't hear you over the machine. Whatever happened to common sense?

Ok, lunch is over. Going to take a nap until about 4:45. Class at 5:30 .... this is gonna be a long day.

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at February 16, 2005 02:35 PM

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