Reflection

It's about 4:15am and I got work tomorrow so I should sleep soon, but after I point out something interesting. In tv there are characters which are created by the writers and sometimes we, the audience can identify with that character. Through that way we feel that we can relate to that character and then we are drawn into the show more and more.

Well anyways my brother pointed out something interesting to me a while back and I kinda wanted to post about since lately I've been reflecting how I relate and identify with characters from anime, since that's what I do when I'm not working or sleeping. The show I am talking about is Full Metal Alchemist, or FMA, for those of you who are not familar with it then I suggest you go watch it. This brings me to the point of how me and my brother share some similarites with Al and Ed from FMA.

Both Al and Ed are a year apart and Al is taller than Ed. Those are the qualities that me and my brother share, since my brother joked with me saying how we are kinda like Ed and Al where I'm Ed and Jeff is Al. Also another thing is that people usually mistake in thinking that Al is the older and more experienced person in the show, and the same is for me and my brother. For example me and family are at my cousin's baby party and a family friend asks "How's college?" and they look at my brother, and I'm like umm I'm the one who went to college. I guess its stuff like that which is amusing while me and my brother compare how we are similar to Al and Ed, minus the whole alchemy thing.

Should be going to sleep now so bye for now. I wonder if anyone has the urge to play poker again? Or is it just me?

Meh...

I think another restaurant rant is in order after experiencing some stuff at TGIF. Ignorance seems to be quite common among all the customers at any restaurant. It would seem that all customers desire nothing more than to treat people of the food service ranks with nothing but disrespect, because we're supposed to "serve" them. Granted that's true, but we're not servants we are human beings with the same rights as they, the customer, has. It kinda gets me irratated to see how a lot of people get mad that something isn't going right like the wait the host/hostess told the customer is taking longer than they predicted, well that's probably due to all the people who already ate but are just talking. I know that I talk with my friends at restaurants, but sometimes the length of time people spend is ridiculous. Also one must take into account the amount of bussers since the table must be bussed in order for the customers to be sat.

Another thing that irratates me is when a customer who's waiting points to an empty table and says "Well, why can't we sit at that table?" and I really hate to answer this question because I need to come up with a plausible excuse which will calm them down and not get them upset so they can wait a few more minutes. This is where more ignorance is seen because they have no idea that sometimes the server in that area is on their break that they've finally got or we don't want to sit there because we just sat that server, and we don't want that server to get pissed at us. Sometimes its simply because there's so much to do that the servers have so much extra work and can't serve that table. An example is that a large group of people just sat down around the bar, and when you sit at the bar there's no wait its first come first serve, although after those people asked if they could sit there I was just informed to tell them that they cannot sit there. Since the bar area was a little short staffed on servers since the bartenders were busy and the other server was helping getting the food to the tables. So I go and tell them that they cannot sit there and the mean woman says "I want to speak to your manager!" Then I go and find the manger and tell him the situation which he is most understanding, its just getting the customer to understand. Well this ends with the group of people sitting there and dragging the server whose helping everyone to do more work. The manager told me that the woman said "What kind of business are you trying to run" so I guess the manager had to cave in to the customer since "we want their money." The ignorance of some people is suprising.

I understand that in order for a restaurant to be able to remain open it needs the money from customers, and I wouldn't have a job if not for the customers. Although everyone who works in the food service dreads having to face a difficult/mean/ignorant customer. The customers who are patient and understand are great, too bad there aren't a lot of them.

Another point I want to make is why be mean to a complete stranger? I mean I understand being mean to someone whom you know, but it kinda boggles my mind to see that. Why be mean to people who are serving your food? You would have no idea what could have been done to your food. A good example is from Waiting, where a woman's food is completely messed up and she eats it unbeknowst to her what was done to her food. All people in the food service have the power to mess with your food unless you are able to watch them while they make your food. I believe that all employees in food service know this and its a good thing that they don't use that power. Whether it be the moral of that person or just how completely messed up it would be food service employees won't mess with your food.

Edit: For some strange reason I have a strong desire to go karaoking. Anyone wanna go?