words through barsmoke
Friday, August 01, 2003
NOTES FOR WAITERS, AN EVENTUAL NOVEL
Chapter Eleven
"On The Dropping of The Check"
When your waiter brings you the check it can only signify one thing; the waiter wants you to leave. In an ideal world this would be the moment when you reach for your wallet. Too many of you don't.
The check signifies a bringing-to-a-close of whatever it is your doing there. It means that you should be leaving now. By not doing this you place your waiter in a moral situation when it's probably not most opportune.
The waiter, having dropped the by now forgotten and isolated check, must now wait. For all that a name implies the contrary is true of most people who have the job. At $2.13 an hour that is just asking too much. $2.13 an hour simply guarantees that the waiter will wear a uniform, show-up, and have a cheap corkscrew on their person when called upon.
