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mushrooms in creme fraiche!! or broccoli cheese soup. this was hard, i really love meat even though I know I should cut down. I don't know how!

I too, blog by day and serve by night, and hate.this.job. I've been serving for five years (with some detours), working my way through college, and will graduate next month, when I can finally ::SIGH:: get a job that doesn't need to work around my school schedule. This economy has only made people more miserly and somehow, ruder.

On the other hand, even though I can well afford more my own glass of wine when I go out, sometimes I do share with a companion because I want a taste of an alcoholic drink, not an entire drink, ya know? And of course, I tip extremely well, which judging by other servers reactions, is becoming rarer, and not just in my restaurant.

What I hate is when someone is too cheap to get the drink their sister ordered (50 cents more than their own soda), so they mooch off her free refills and rudely ask me to get them a To-Go cup with a drink that's not theirs. and guess how well they tip?

Of course, this economy also means that my managers would rather smooch butt of some rude idiot than lose the pennies they might spend, which includes comping these idiots' food and inviting more morons who also want to sit down and be served for free.