my first double.

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i know people do it all the time. but not me. today was my first. twelve hours pretty much straight. nothing kinky or anything near the order of, though.. that would make for an interesting piece, huh?. yeah, i'm sure.. actually it's quite the opposite. i'm talking about work. i got and left there at 11-- the former in the am, the latter in the pm. i pulled my first double.. and considering the running around that was involved, i was pretty consistently busy both day and night, i'd think i'd be tired at this point but.. i'm not really.. sitting though helps.. but i'm really just prolly feeding off the rare-occasion adreneline and/or perhaps it won't hit me til tomorrow-- just when i need to be in good spirits and chock full of energy.. isn't that usually the way life hands you things?. and yes, the glass is half empty, duh. we all know that i know that.. in any case, so work is obviously on the brain at the moment. and based on the trend of the day i wondered whether along with the horrendous traffic i spoke earlier of, the turn of labor day brought back the cheap skate patrons that really know how to get under my skin or just annoy the shit out of me.. i mean, don't go out to eat if you don't want to spend the money. times are hard, for sure. and we're all trying to make ends meet.. including the ones who serve you.. i had a woman sitting at a table of fourteen, a business lunch which she i'm sure wasn't paying for.. well, she fretted over ordering a DP [diet pepsi] based on whether it was free refill. i had this girl ask me how many shrimp there was in the jambalaya. i had a man order a red wine. when i asked him which one, his response was whichever was the cheapest.. yellowtail shiraz, i believe it was, which i was actually a lil surprised about since yellowtail advertizes all over the place.. doesn't it?.. my last table though was by far the worst.. two women. i greet them and ask what they want to drink. they have the drinks menu fully unfolded and the tell me they don't know. ok, fine. legitimate. we do have a decently extensive menu on drinks alone. i come back, they don't know. i come back: one california cosmo, one reg cosmo. it took that long just to make the drink order, now they needed time for food.. derrr.. grrrr.. come back. don't know. come back. ummm. i think we'll start with the sonora egg rolls.. come back, ready to decide on entree?. no. come back? no.. don't even come back. i wait.. then finally come back. one of the women is almost reluctant to order. she asks where the app is, prolly preplanning to get the app before ordering the main.. they've been here before.. i have never seen them but i can tell by the way they're ordering.. bullshit that they can't decide/don't know what to get.. really, they're just trying to buy time and sit there as long as they can and doing so by stalling to order.. when i finally got them to-- your app'll be here in a couple minutes followed by a will-you-just-order-already??-stare.. one of them was like.. eh, i don't know.. is this spicy. blah blah.. fine. valid question. UNLESS you already know the answer. which she/they both clearly did.. so they're sipping their cosmos and have a sonora egg roll app on the way. they then order the mango tandori, the garlic cream, and the crab cakes. three entrees and the app between the two of them.. they prolly didn't even have the opportunity to get upset about the calories on the menu since they prolly already knew what they wanted before even entering the store. in any case. it took forever for the sonora egg rolls to come up.. they eat. they hail me down to order another drink-- two lemon drops, without the need of a menu, and make sure there's sugar around the rim request. again, no menu onhand.. ahem. they eat more. eat eat. i set down a dessert menu as they start to slow down... i ask if they want dessert when they're done.. they say they might consider it.. and at that point i want to shoot myself and transfer the table far far away from me despite all the work i already put into them.. when i go back they're ready to pay.. thank god, you know?.. and i guess at that point they decided they spent enough time in the joint and paid relatively [to themselves] quickly and then they left. thank god..
.end.. i was prolly going to continue on, but was tired and was going to go back but didn't get a chance. so o well. abrupt ending.. so neeehh-xt..