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Some people have tough jobs

By Gary Shaporka 3 min read

Isn’t it great to sit down at your favorite restaurant and be waited on by a lovely waitress? It’s so gratifying of them applying their congenial service.

Cooking at home for family can amount to many family members. Cooking on a daily basis can be overwhelming. Culinary responsibilities can be a complex task when a multiple variation of food is being prepared. This is the well-received significance of eating out when the budget allows. It’s a welcome relief from the burden and hot stove of utilizing your kitchen skills as the cook at home. Give due praise equally as well to the restaurant chef working feverishly preparing the large quantity of foods for the many patrons waiting and drooling for their cuisine.

I’m sure we can appreciate the delightful service of the waitress fulfilling your order. They can be so busy at times it can reveal itself in the manner of fatigue. It can be noticeably recognizable. Be patient, at times waitresses may be short of help and doing the best they can to accommodate everyone’s hunger and thirst. They only have two arms and legs and can’t be expected to carry out their workload efficiently going in too many different directions at once. I’ve witnessed coffee guzzlers having an angrily disposition for the reason a waitress wasn’t speedy for a refill. After all, they don’t wear roller skates to zip around by leaps and bounds as if they are superwomen. Wait your turn and give serious thought to decaffeinated coffee. Relax, she’ll get to you. The Old Testament, Ecclesiastes 11:10, “Banish anxiety from your mind and put away pain from your body.”

How can we forget the active occupation of a busy bartender? Chuggers plopped down on the barstool gulping away like a fish and trying to stimulate serious and joking conversation with a bartender which can be difficult when he or she has a bar full of customers. Bartenders generally have their hands full trying to serve drinks every which way and make small talk at the same time. Serving snack foods is also a major task of their busy responsibility. The New Testament, revelation 15:13, “Great and amazing are your deeds.”

Some customers are enjoyable to converse with and at the same time the bartender always has that one argumentative annoying pain he or she wishes would evaporate out the door. They give the bartender and behaved customers the feeling of a fly buzzing around your face while trying to sleep. If brains were chocolate, they wouldn’t have enough to fill an M & M candy.

Need I mention the good old-fashioned fisticuff that may happen and causes the bartender a severe anxiety attempting to settle it or call the police. The uncomfortable moment when the barkeep has to refuse a customer service because of their exceeding the limit of intoxication and their irritable conversation makes no sense. The only time the befuddled drunkard makes sense is when he or she staggers out the door. Realizing the senselessness of the bar room environment, I’ve given up the undesirable insanity ten years ago.

When you think about it, a bartender has his or her responsibilities totally demanding fulfilling their job. A waitress or bartender deserves your full respectful consideration. Without their devoted attention and service you couldn’t satisfy your dire craving for food and drink.

Gary Shaporka is a resident of Jefferson Township.

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