I'm bored.

I go on vacation in less than 5 days. It's Friday. 90% of the office is out at an employee outing. I didn't go because I wanted to get work done before going on vacation. However, I am now clearly bored. Yeah, I still have a lot of work to do, but it's so quiet here, I'm falling asleep and need a break. So now you have pleasure of hearing about my day.

Have you ever watched 3rd Rock from the Sun? It's about these aliens who come to Earth to learn about... Earth. Well there's this one episode where Dick, the "father" alien, is learning about tipping at restaurants. No, not like cow tipping. Like "giving your server a gratuity" tipping. Anyway, once he learns the idea behind it, he goes out to eat and puts a pile of $1 bills on the table. He tells the waitress that he's going to take a dollar away every time she provides poor service or generally screws up. By the end of it, she's freaking out because her tip is basically waning down to nothing.

Here's the point. That's what I felt like doing at lunch today. I went to Timpano with my boss, and our waitress brought us water and menus and then DISAPPEARED. I mean, seriously. I think she totally forgot about us, despite the fact that she was totally on top of the table right behind us. Maybe it's because they were ordering alcoholic beverages, which means a bigger check, which means a bigger tip. Whatever. She sucked. It took less time for the food to get to our table than it did for us to actually TAKE our order. And forget asking for the check or her picking it up after we put the credit card in there. We were there for over 90 minutes, and only 35 of it was spent with food in front of us. That girl sucked big time. It's not even like it was busy. There were maybe a dozen tables with customers, and at least 8 different waiters (yeah, I counted). So she had no reason to be as confused as she looked.

At least the food was good.









Can I go home now?