Because I have been out on the dating scene for a while now I think it is possible that I may have picked up a few things along the way. There are some things you can say to a person you are already fully in a relationship with that perhaps should not say to someone on a first or even second date.  So, I had been out with this particular guy on one other occasion and it was pretty clear there was a connection, I say it WAS because after this conversation, I never saw this guy again. He did text me once but we will get to that later. Now, for those of you who know me the following will be something that would not cause you pause or any trepidation as to what may or may not happen to you because you know me.  But for those of you who don’t know me or are getting to know me, you might possibly want to run the other way after reading it. I shall lovingly call this conversation, “What if I was a Criminal”

Okay so I tend to like to watch a lot of forensic type shows.  I am talking the real deal like “Forensic Files” or “Snapped” or the like.  Having done so I have thought through in my twisted brain, how I could commit crimes and never be caught.  Unfortunately the man I was dating brought up the type of shows he likes then we got into the whole forensic thing then I told him I felt I could commit crimes and totally get away with it.  This intrigued him which was his mistake, then he asked me to tell him how and I did, which was my mistake.  I proceeded to tell this man in excruciating detail what I would do.  You now reading this are about to get into my brain.  *WARNING* Reading beyond this point is done at your own risk because once you do you will never look at me the same again, whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is for you to decide.

I look him in the eyes never breaking contact as I tell him that the first part of my plan would be to become a pen pal to an inmate.  This would not be a death row inmate and you will see why that would not work in a minute.  So I become pen pals with a non-death row inmate and get him to either fall in love with me or at the very least trust me completely.  I am going to make sure that this person is a complete degenerate who committed some heinous crime.  Once the relationship is well established I am going to help this inmate escape.  You may be wondering if I picked some really bad guy why I would want to help him escape, oh ye of little faith, I am getting to that.  Once the escape has happened I will take this criminal out to the desert, kill him in the most humane way possible (I mean I am NOT a monster) and then I will carefully remove the tips of his fingers.  I will also collect other bits such as hair etc. so that I will be in possession of his DNA. At this point I will make gloves that I can wear that will have synthetic replicas of his finger prints on the finger tips.  I will then go on a crime spree (no more killing, again, I am not a monster) while leaving his prints and DNA all over creation.  The cops will of course think it is the crime spree of an escaped convict meanwhile their escapee is buried out in the desert somewhere!

Of course I end the entire description with a big old toothy grin in a proud moment as I feel I have just unloaded some serious intelligence all over this guy.  It was in that moment that I realized I had actually just unloaded some serious crazy on him in his eyes.  His mouth hung open in what can only be described as duplicating someone at the receiving end of a “Shock and Awe” campaign.  After a long, stunned silence he finally says to me, “Woooow, you have really thought about this.”  I tried to salvage things by saying it just came off the top of my head, which was actually true.  This really was a bad idea because now I have let on that I am quick on my feet and if I decided he was no longer valuable I could hatch a flawless plan in seconds.  We finished the dinner and eventually parted ways.  I knew I would never see or hear from him again….I was wrong….he texted me two days later and asked me to please lose his number.  I in a moment of humor sent him a text back that said, “I will lose your number but keep in mind, I know where you live,”  Then I waited on my front porch for the cops….totally worth it…..just sayin’…..

Wilson

I want you all to know that I really love my job. I have not always been able to say that about jobs in my past and I think many of you are shocked that I am a waitress by choice and that I love doing it! It is really no mystery as to why I love the job, the restaurant is great, the customers are diverse and interesting, I get to talk and laugh, and have fun all freakin’ day and get paid for it.
Recently, through a series of fortunate and unfortunate events I worked a 19 hour shift. It was a night full of adventure, pain, laughter, pain, lots of money, and lots of, you guessed it, pain. I thought you might enjoy a little glimpse into what 19 hours on your feet and serving customers would be like.

HOURS 1-6 This was my normal shift, and though 6 hours on your feet can be tiring especially when you stay busy as I often do, I am used to this.  These hours are very similar to when I get my naughty bits waxed, these first six hours were like the outer parts, slightly annoying but not really painful.  Towards the end of hours 1-6 is when I find out that two people from the night crew have called in sick, so I jump on the opportunity to earn a few extra hours and a few extra bucks (yes the first agreement was only until 8 or 9pm just 3 or 4 hours passed my shift.)

Hour 7 Hour 7 was not so bad really because one of the stipulations I gave to the night crew manager was that I had to go pay a bill.  It had to be paid by 8pm and I did not want to take a chance.  So this is where I got to sit down in my car while running said errand for about 20 minutes….ahhhh, never thought of my P.O.S. Chevy Cavalier as the most comfortable thing but at this point…yeah…good stuff.

Hour 8 This was the hour in which I agreed to the torture I was about to endure.  This may sound dramatic, but as you will see when the hours march on, not so dramatic….reality….it is a bitch and that bitch likes to inflict pain!

Hours 9-12 These hours were busy for part of them and then a slow down.  At the end of hours 9-12 I knew I was going to get a bit of a break!  See on Monday nights from 10 to 1030pm I do an internet radio show on blogtalkradio.com it is a comedy duo type deal so obviously it cannot be done without both myself and my best friend Jason of jaysays.com and our comedy website ejoculation.com.  The fact that I was going to do this show come hell or high water had to be agreed to or I was not staying on the overnight.  This was agreed to quite easily as a.  Noone else could stay overnight and the overnight person had called in sick and b. I was starting to look a bit frayed and fragile at this point and I think they were afraid to say no.  Whatever worked!

Hour 13 30 minutes of this was spent sitting in my car (already established as comfortable) doing a very funny show and smoking a few cigs.   All of which were going to be important more than I knew to the last 6 hours of this saga….and everyone who came into the restaurant in the middle of the night’s safety.

Hour 14 and 15 At this point I was thinking this was not so bad, really.  I can do this, with little to no incident.  As you will soon find out when I delve into the darkness of hours 16-19 I am totally speaking too soon.

Hour 16 This is the point of the evening eh morning, that I am now the only waitress, all others have been cut and sent home to do wonderful things like sit… lay down… pee without having to hurridly remove aprons and all other manner of stuff and do it as though you were a car driver in the effin’ Indy 500 only without the pit crew!  I very quickly began to envy my cohorts in the serving industry, these obsessive thoughts would get much creepier in a bit, for now, just a mild jealousy.

Hour 17 Delusions are starting to kick in, I am managing to keep it from the endless parade of customers, but my own head, well it is impossible to hide from your own head.   I am also realizing that muscles are burning, not a mild burning but a burn that feels like actual flame is being applied to various parts of my body.  Also, did you know there is a muscle right behind your ear that does actually start to hurt when you have been waitressing for 17 1/2 hours?  Finally at about hour 17 and 3/4 I went into our walk-in fridge, grabbed a cantelope, made him hair of parsley and a face of fruit and called him WILSON.  He would be my companion for the rest of the ordeal, and really the only reason I survive it.

Hour 18 This was the hour in which I became very happy that my only customers on the 8 tables I had were one of two things, cops or drunk people.  I was grateful for the tables of cops because I felt that if I were to pass out they would have the training and wits about them to save me.  I was grateful for the drunks because my exhaustion at the this point was so severe, I was slurring my words and making no sense and this was going completely unnoticed.  They also seemed to not care that what I was bringing them was not what they effin’ ordered but rather what I saw fit to put in, or not so much saw fit to but what I DID put in during brief blackouts.

Hour 19 Several things happened in hour 19.  First I completed my hit list for those of my co-workers that were home and asleep, it was less of a list and more of a kill everyone I work with type thing written over and over and over again on my order pad and kids menus in crayon.  I also realized I could now feel nothing below my waist.  In a way that was a blessing for me but not really considered one by the customers when I did things like come walking up to their table dragging a leg behind me or using my good arm to throw my now dead arm on the table with the pot of coffee in hand.  I also think it might have been slightly off putting when I started having arguments with Wilson, hey that melon head has some really strong opinions on things and I really just do not agree with his philosophies, he is kind of an asshole.

Also in hour 19 I cried real tears when I saw my replacement walk in the door. I might possibly have run to her and screamed out “MY HERO” and lunged myself into her arms and kissed her all over her face as though she were Richard Gere and I was Debra Winger in “An Officer and a Gentleman” but I don’t believe I did, though the survellience video kinda looks like I did, it was a bit grainy so not sure.  I choose to believe it did not occur.

I have to say I think I handled the whole thing with grace and style.  I don’t think anything out of the ordinary happened that I should be in any way ashamed of or worried about though I have no memory of anything after Malinda arrived.  I also choose to believe that the ticket in my apron for driving erratically, the fact that my shoes were on the wrong feet, and the fact that I woke up in the fetal position on my front porch about six hours later in no way reflect anything at all of any kind whatsoever.

Coffee Urinal

I have no idea what I did to deserve this great couple to sit in my section, at my table at the restaurant yesterday, but I have to say thank you to whatever power, supernatural or not that made it happen.  As some of you know and some of you may not one of my jobs is waitressing at Jim’s, a family restaurant in San Antonio, and I happen to love this job very much and don’t really have a desire to do anything else at the moment.  Now, in general I tend to use my sense of humor in my work, often giving my customers a hard time and joking, sometimes even being “on” like I were an aspiring comedian at open mike night.  This particular day however, I found the one person that had no appreciation for this fact though my reaction to the situation had less to do with my sense of humor and more to due with his lack of one.

So I have this 30 something couple come in, we will call them Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blow (it out your ass) for the purposes of the story. They sit at the table and I approach ready to take their drink order as per usual and then give them time to decide what they want to order to eat by the time I return with the drinks.  In this case, however they are ready to go on with the whole shebang which suits me fine.  Mrs. Blow puts in her order and asks for a glass of milk to drink, then Mr. Blow follows suit and decides he would like some coffee as his beverage of choice.  Now what he asks me next will always lead me to wonder if he had killed some brain cells in his past and was really this stupid, or if it was a simple moment where you mean one thing and say another while still being a fairly intelligent human being.  Judging by his completely childish reaction to my reaction to it I will go with stupidity.

The man proceeds to ask me if we have “any of those urinals” while holding his hands in such a way as to show me the sizing.  I pause as I am thinking, surely I heard him incorrectly and I ask him to repeat himself.  He asks again, “You know do you have any of those coffee urinals that you fill with coffee and leave at the table?”  To which I bust out laughing hysterically!  Not a giggle people, but a full on, from the belly, laugh!  I know this is a mistake to keep laughing as I see he is not amused and really has no idea what I was laughing at.  When I realize he does not get his mistake on his own I decide I shall tell him.  I say, “Hun, a urinal is what men use in the restroom, now I believe you meant an urn of coffee and no this is not IHOP.”  Well that went over like a lead balloon, only a lead balloon that was getting the most evil look possible as it thunked to the ground.  I decide a bit too late for this idiots benefit to try to smooth things over and save his ego by saying, “Well, usually you don’t need a urinal until after you drink the coffee and if you don’t mind I would prefer you to do that in the restroom rather than at the table.”

This was just getting worse, especially because his wife totally had a smirk on her face until she realized he was totally pissed about what was happening.  That woman wiped that grin off and feigned indignation at my gall to laugh at him in such a manner and then further go on to joke about it.  I however, have now had a full on giggle box turning over moment and walk away still laughing at what he said.  The situation was even FURTHER worsened by the fact that the other waitress working that area yells out at me as I was walking away, “WHAT ARE YA LAUGHIN’ AT, TAMMY?”  And I am now frantically mumbling through clenched teeth, “It’s nothing, I will tell you later!”  This was the moment I see out of the corner of my eye, Mr. Blow saying something quietly yet with some anger to Mrs. Blow, and the two rise and slink out the door.

At this point I think it prudent to take my boss aside and tell him what has happened just in case the dumbass calls corporate to complain.  My boss is completely at a loss for words and of course laughs too. I tell him I highly doubt the ego bruised baby is going to call corporate because there is no way he can explain it to them without telling them that he asked me for a urinal at the table.  A couple of hours later I approach my boss and say,  “you know how the other day you were asking us if there were any other dishes, or cups and such we thought you should order, I just realized there is something we are short on.”  He had forgotten of course and did not see where this was going.  I tell him, “Yeah, I think you really need to order some more coffee urinals, we don’t have near enough.”  He threw something at me.

In all honesty I have no idea why people don’t have a sense of humor about mistakes that are made.  I make them all the time and if I did not laugh about it, I would be miserable as it is a daily occurrence that I screw something up.  At this point I just hope that what I am screwing up is not important, like calling an urn a urinal, or messing up my kid for society to have to deal with in a couple of years, you know, the little things.