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allegro2/27/2012 9:47:48 am PST

I think it should be required service of every American to wait tables. I chalk up some of my most valuable educational experiences to doing that job when I was in college. Being an uppity little liberal woman, I didn’t suffer fools gladly even then and that job taught me how to deal with assholes without a) losing my job and b) losing my soul.

My favorite story comes from working at a Denny’s type restaurant. It was late at night, after midnight, and a party of folks came in obviously after a night of drinking. One guy in their party was an insulting, insufferable asshole who was quite abusive. Though his behavior clearly offended some others in the party, there was little they could do since he just turned his ugliness oon them. When their order came up, I served them, bringing his food to him in a To Go bag. Man, was he pissed! The rest of his party laughed their asses off. So did my manager when the guy complained.