this is not an entry about a flag
On Friday I got a call from Andrew, whose dad owns Saffron. He asked me if I wanted to work for a day for cash because they were short on dishwashers. I said I would do it but when I got there, the dishwasher on duty was way crazy and refused to train me. So they basically offered me a job right there. They told me to come in Saturday at 2. This saddened me because I wanted to see the show at 112 Huger Street that night but I thought it would be inappropriate to ask off my first day. So I went and it is the best "first day on the job" I have had in years. Almost everyone is super nice there and almost no one is a jerk. I was astounded how pleasant everyone was. I guess McDonald's gave me a false idea of food service. I was like Jack Skellington in Nightmare Before Christmas: "What's this? Employees actually asking if they can help another employee out? With no favor requested in return? Why is no one yelling in anger?" So anyway I worked until about 10:30 and walked home. Before I left, Chef Ali told me I did a good job. I worked with this guy named Herb who was cool.
Yesterday at 5 I left with Matt Foreman, Janie, Amanda, and Tay to go to Savannah to see the OK/P&F show, the last of their tour. We got a smidge lost but we made it in plenty of time for the show. The show was great and afterwards I got some bubble tea which was certainly a new experience that was fun at the time but honestly now it's making me a little sick. Chad and Mustafa and I rode back in the tour van and we were about 30 miles from Charleston when the rear passenger tire went flat. We tried to walk to some lights that we thought might be a business but it was just lights near a house. We called Kim who arrived on the scene with what we thought were the necessary tools. Mustafa tried to change the tire but the lug wrenches we had both were too small for the tire. Kim called AAA and pretended to be Jodie and by then it was like 4:30 or something and the guy showed up at maybe 6:30. After he changed the tire (which seemed to take forever; I couldn't see what he was doing) we had to drive away from Charleston again to the nearest gas station to inflate the tire. There was a frog on the window of the van. I went to the bathroom and beside the door in the gas station there was a container of crickets that was like a shallow box on a table. I can't think if that kind of thing has a name right now. Anyway, when I got out, Kim and Mustafa had left in Jodie's car and Chad and I drove back to Charleston listening to Aphex Twin. We got to the peninsula at about 8, maybe 8:15.
We went to Saffron for breakfast because eating a huge breakfast was all I could think about from about 3am onwards. We ate the heck outta some food in there. And it was 50% off because I am an employee! They asked me to stay and work until 4 as a busboy but then changed it to coming in at 4 as a dishwasher. The first option I almost took but the second I didn't want at all. I don't to be in the kitchen running around with wet socks and wet shoes and probably like one cumulative hour of sleep or whatever, and also there is a show tonight, so sorry Manager Ali, not gonna work tonight. I'll see you Tuesday morning. As Chad and I walked out of the restaurant, one of the ladies from the kitchen saw me and told me I did a good job Saturday night. BEN ELLENBURG IS MAKIN WAVES IN THE DISHWASHIN BIZ
Yesterday at 5 I left with Matt Foreman, Janie, Amanda, and Tay to go to Savannah to see the OK/P&F show, the last of their tour. We got a smidge lost but we made it in plenty of time for the show. The show was great and afterwards I got some bubble tea which was certainly a new experience that was fun at the time but honestly now it's making me a little sick. Chad and Mustafa and I rode back in the tour van and we were about 30 miles from Charleston when the rear passenger tire went flat. We tried to walk to some lights that we thought might be a business but it was just lights near a house. We called Kim who arrived on the scene with what we thought were the necessary tools. Mustafa tried to change the tire but the lug wrenches we had both were too small for the tire. Kim called AAA and pretended to be Jodie and by then it was like 4:30 or something and the guy showed up at maybe 6:30. After he changed the tire (which seemed to take forever; I couldn't see what he was doing) we had to drive away from Charleston again to the nearest gas station to inflate the tire. There was a frog on the window of the van. I went to the bathroom and beside the door in the gas station there was a container of crickets that was like a shallow box on a table. I can't think if that kind of thing has a name right now. Anyway, when I got out, Kim and Mustafa had left in Jodie's car and Chad and I drove back to Charleston listening to Aphex Twin. We got to the peninsula at about 8, maybe 8:15.
We went to Saffron for breakfast because eating a huge breakfast was all I could think about from about 3am onwards. We ate the heck outta some food in there. And it was 50% off because I am an employee! They asked me to stay and work until 4 as a busboy but then changed it to coming in at 4 as a dishwasher. The first option I almost took but the second I didn't want at all. I don't to be in the kitchen running around with wet socks and wet shoes and probably like one cumulative hour of sleep or whatever, and also there is a show tonight, so sorry Manager Ali, not gonna work tonight. I'll see you Tuesday morning. As Chad and I walked out of the restaurant, one of the ladies from the kitchen saw me and told me I did a good job Saturday night. BEN ELLENBURG IS MAKIN WAVES IN THE DISHWASHIN BIZ