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There is this hostess at work, Natalie. She is a complete idiot. She looks Hispanic and speaks Spanish fluently so everyone just assumes that English is her second language. She has a semi-thick accent and can't spell to save her life. But no, English was in fact her first language, she was born and raised in Norwood Massachusetts. She graduated from Norwood High School. Anyways, I came into work tonight at 5pm, and she had already written up the specials board. Soup tonight was cream of butternut squash, but Natalie wrote "creme of butternut sqach". First off, every word in the English language that has a "q" in it, the "q" is followed by a "u". So why would squash be any different? Secondly, even if you sound out "squash" phonetically, "sqach" just sounds wrong. Thirdly, "cream" is in soup or coffee. "Creme" is a dessert, like creme brulee. The specials we write on the board, are written down for us, most of the time typed up all nice and neatly. All she has to do is copy it from a piece of paper to the chalkboard. She has it written down in black and white! How hard is it! And now we're on to the to go order she took. She took the order over the phone and had nothing to copy off of so maybe I guess I can let this one go. But on second thought, no. It's far too amusing. The guest ordered a turkey BLT wrap and a diet Coke. Natalie wrote it as "toorkey BLT and diet cock". Moving on, she took a reservation for tonight, during my shift. I had no idea what the reservation notes meant until the party arrived. Here's what she wrote: "two guests older one has a whoalchare they need to request a table is possible to be comefortabble a quiet table would be nice". Translation: "2 old folks, one in a wheelchair, request a quiet table". It just boggles my mind, the level of stupidity and ignorance that passes for a high school graduate.
On a much better note, yesterday was Jimi's and mine 2 year anniversary. I took him out to dinner at Cafe Nuovo in Providence. It was fantastic fine dining. He got a calmari appetizer and lobster tail lo mein and I got a smoked salmon appetizer and pinot noir duck breast. We both got smashed off great cocktails and expensive wine, then we has creme brulee for dessert and Jimi had the pastry chef write "Happy Anniversary" on the creme bruless plate. It was romantic. He got his 125 year old Gran Marnier after dinner and I got Nuts and Berries (tehe) which is frangelico and chambord. We somehow made it home and had crazy anniversary sex all over the place and then Jim got sick from all the food and all the booze and didn't go to practice. Oh well. :)
Our lease is up May 1st! YAY!!!!!!!!! NO MORE FERRET!!!!! As sad as it will be to leave B5 it will be awesome at the same time. We are going on Monday to take a look at the apartment we are moving into and to finalize all the security deposit/lease paperwork stuff. I am so excited. Ok, well now it's 3am and I'm too pooped to party anymore, so peace
On a much better note, yesterday was Jimi's and mine 2 year anniversary. I took him out to dinner at Cafe Nuovo in Providence. It was fantastic fine dining. He got a calmari appetizer and lobster tail lo mein and I got a smoked salmon appetizer and pinot noir duck breast. We both got smashed off great cocktails and expensive wine, then we has creme brulee for dessert and Jimi had the pastry chef write "Happy Anniversary" on the creme bruless plate. It was romantic. He got his 125 year old Gran Marnier after dinner and I got Nuts and Berries (tehe) which is frangelico and chambord. We somehow made it home and had crazy anniversary sex all over the place and then Jim got sick from all the food and all the booze and didn't go to practice. Oh well. :)
Our lease is up May 1st! YAY!!!!!!!!! NO MORE FERRET!!!!! As sad as it will be to leave B5 it will be awesome at the same time. We are going on Monday to take a look at the apartment we are moving into and to finalize all the security deposit/lease paperwork stuff. I am so excited. Ok, well now it's 3am and I'm too pooped to party anymore, so peace