I’ve been working all day. Ok that’s pushing it a bit, I’ve been at work all day. Being at work all day I missed all the big news stories. You know what it’s like, the world could go to war and I’d miss it. And I’m obsessed with the news. I have BBC News 24 [...]
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ewwwwwww One of the most fear inducing phone calls a waiter can get goes like this, “Hello what time is the latest we can get a table for a dinner?” Late supper eh? BOLLOCKS, I have no time for the late bloody supper crowd. Now there is no chance in hell I’m giving them a [...]
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Honestly folks I’ve got nothing today. I considered counting the ceiling and floor tiles then realised we don’t have ceiling and floor tiles. It’s not a Pizza Hut you know. So times like these call for desperate measures……….it’s meme time……(it’s a life saver when you have nothing proper to write about) Ellie tagged me last [...]
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the house red? if you must sir…. This current down time in restaurant based activities, cleaning aside, leaves me with little or nothing to blog about. I know you are all waiting with baited breath for the result of my counting the tiles, both floor and ceiling, but you shall wait. That shall be a [...]
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I’m a skeptical/cynical bugger at the best of times. I wasn’t always that way. I suppose a combination of lethargy, discovering how comfortable clothes from the Gap really are, and post Live 8 disillusionment (we could have changed the world man, we could have changed things for everyone, and not just improved album sales) has [...]
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some waiters are always ready for love….. Just because it’s quiet doesn’t mean that I wont write. Hell I’ll make it up if I have to. But we aren’t quite there. Yet. I’m going to spend this time catching up on my correspondence. For example I got an email recently from a young lady, her [...]
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But tonight it wasn’t me. It was everybody else….. I cleaned the window sills. Then I had a little smoke. And then another. I followed that up by polishing a tray of cutlery. I killed another 15 minutes by searching through the diary for any interesting bookings later on in the year. There are no [...]
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Paddington BearNot Paddington Bear, Manuel Waiter actually…. Snow sucks balls. I don’t think I need to explain myself with regard to that bold statement. In fact it’s not even a bold statement, it’s a statement of fact. Let’s have it again just to make sure we all know my position on snow, SNOW. SUCKS. BALLS. [...]
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Evil: snow the view from faultless towers It’s snowing. I fucking hate snow. I can’t cope with snow. I can’t walk in snow. I can fall over in snow. I can look like a idiot in snow. But I cannot walk in snow. I dread having to go to work, it’s gonna be a disaster. [...]
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Nostradamusprobably worked as a waiter… As I’m sure I have said before, stop me if I’m repeating myself but you know what it’s like when you get to my age, the restaurant year is pretty much the same from year to year. Moveable feasts such as Easter provide the only variance of any note. So [...]
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pastures new? no thanks Ah January, another year begins and a young waiter’s mind turns to thoughts of pastures new. And fair play to them. Not me though, I’m not a young waiter and my mind has trouble enough focusing on what’s happening right now let alone pastures new. No I’m in a rut, work [...]
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Happy New Year folks from all at WellDoneFillet Industries. I meant to post this last night but between work, a bottle of New Zealand’s finest – The Ned, Little Miss Manuel, and the emotion of the night I never quite managed it. I was a near bubbling mess of tears and quivering lip’s before the [...]
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The wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, well read, charismatic, funny and all round good eggs from the Irish Blog Awards (that’ll do darling-LMM) are now inviting nominations for this years awards. Different format this year as the winners will be decided by a panel of judges as opposed to a popularity vote. I wonder who the judges [...]
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me A lady touched my bottom on Friday night. There I’ve said it. It’s good to get that out, to admit it, to start dealing with it. It wasn’t as a result of a swinging arm, leaving us both embarrassed and apologising at the same time. She hadn’t mistaken it for a comfortable cushion that [...]
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I very rarely want to hug a customer, but tonight I wanted to hug a customer and tell them everything was going to be okay. I wanted to take their pain away. I wanted to make sure they didn’t do anything silly. Let me tell you the saddest Christmas story ever. A young lady had [...]
Read more...Some people have too much time on their hands and little to be worrying about. I don’t mean bloggers, we are vital and important and pioneers of the new media. Or maybe not. But honestly some people must really be living charmed and easy lives. A friend, who must remain nameless but lets call him [...]
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threadless It wasn’t a bad year for music. Not the greatest but not bad all the same. Some people should have called it quits, I’m looking at you Billy Gorgan, and you Interpol people should have red faces too. Both managed to produce albums so weak they barely registered as music. Both c.d.’s are being [...]
Read more...I’m a huge great big fan of end of year lists and reviews and that sort of thing. It’s quite nerdy, but there you go. So I’ll be shoving a few lists under your nose’s over the next few days much like TV news shows do at this time of the year when they have [...]
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