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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 so as many of you may or may not know, I serve tables/tend bar to pay my rent and what not. I come up with these brilliant lines from time to time that make my coworkers crack up when I tell them that I say things like this to tables. I was told tonight I should write a book about them, kinda a "chicken soup for the server's soul" except more entitled "another round for the server's soul" or something lame like that. although I am not preparing to write a book, I feel I should at least write them down somewhere so here goes (I hope you find them as amusing as we do) 1) so I once had this table of young, fairly attractive men, about my age. they had pizza. they didn't finish it so I went and packed it up for them. I put it down on the table and look at the one and say "look, I cooked you breakfast". Now in all honesty I meant nothing by this except that I had just provided him with something he could eat for breakfast. obviously he didn't take it this way, and right after I said it, he gave me the wierdest look.. damn was it funny.. 2) one day, a few months after the second star wars prequel came out I was serving some beer. Our glass chiller was working on overdrive and there were many glasses that had a thin layer of ice on the bottom. we were also out of coasters. so I put a pint down on this table in front of this guy and it slowly starts sliding around the table. I put down the second pint and the same thing happens. so I go "all right obi wan, enough with the jedi mind tricks" .. and think "damn am I a geek".. lucky for me the two guys burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing I ever said.. 3) a few weeks ago I was moderately busy and it was one of those nights were things just weren't flowing well. One of my tables says "wow kim you look like you're really in the weeds tonight" my response "actually I think I'm just running on a pentium one tonight".. they thought I was quite the geek after this one, funny thing is I really don't know that much about computers... 4) there's quite a few older, ahem, gentlemen who come into my work and who I find quite, umm, creepy. so just tonight this I was checking on a table and the woman's dining companion was in the washroom. so I'm all chatting with her, I finish, I turn around and he's standing right behind me. so I kinda jump cuz I didn't realise he was there. so he's all "sorry for creeping up on you" my response "creeping up's all right, it's creeping out I worry about. it's all about the preposition".. I don't know if he got it. Anyhow, they're all had to be there, or maybe you just have to work with me things but I hope they were at least mildly amusing... I could bore you with more, but I won't.. maybe later.. posted by kim | 1:47 a.m.| (0) comments Friday, September 26, 2003 so I'm seeing this guy (the rest of this post is censored..) posted by kim | 1:39 p.m.| (0) comments Sunday, September 21, 2003 I hate watching my neighbourhood get yuppified. I could handle the rental apartments being converted into condos, even though it brought down the amount of low income rental units in the area. I could deal with that. I even tell myself that maybe they're being bought by someone who will in turn rent the unit out for less than the rent was when it was run by boardwalk or mainstreet or one of those um, wonderful, management firms. But I'm sick of walking around and seeing these beautiful old homes being torn down and replaced by these terrible big houses that look just like the suburbs. And then there's Garrisson f-ing Woods, this new "neighbourhood" near my house in which they've torn down all these military homes and rebuilt a bunch of new homes that look just like the ones that were there before except they're lacking personality. Or there's these "classic" condos. I mean what the fuck. But back to glorious bankview/south calgary. So they tear down these houses and build new ones, thereby slowly taking the character out of the neighbourhood, one house at a time. What makes it especially painful is that there are some beautiful older homes that have been simply restored and are amazing. Or other homes that have been torn down and replaced with some really cool looking homes (there's one shaped like a soccer ball). But these homes coming straight out of suburbia and into the borderline inner city are beginning to really upset me. that is all. posted by kim | 3:00 a.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, September 17, 2003 I SHOULD UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE TO BRUSH HEAVY SNOW OFF MY CAR AND THEN SCRAPE OFF THE ICE UNDERNEATH AT ANY POINT BEFORE DEC 1. ... I think this city will stop breathing soon if I have anything to say about it... that is all. posted by kim | 1:44 a.m.| (0) comments Wednesday, September 10, 2003 so apparently allie wants to live vicariously through me.. and I get to take history of totalitarianism.. wow allie must be really bored in edmonton posted by kim | 2:09 a.m.| (0) comments Tuesday, September 09, 2003 so I haven't posted for a while. sorry, I'm a busy girl. went and saw the weakerthans last night. f-ing great show, although I've seen them recently so it was not the most exciting show I've been too. am going to see poison up in edmonton this weekend, we'll see how exciting that is. Today was the first day of school. my last first day of school, in theory. how depressing. it was a good day, my first 2 classes are looking good, I saw people I was really happy to see (one of whom I thought was dropping out, so I was extra happy), got to have a pint.. went to work, got a new beer cooler that I've been bitching about for a while now, had over all cheery, happy customers, especially for a rainy monday... it was a good day.. posted by kim | 1:43 a.m.| (0) comments |
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