You will Get Yours!!!

Working at a restaurant is a very intimate thing.

You become very close with the people you work with. Sort of like a LARGE dysfunctional family.

You have the annoying little brother, the stupid sisters, and the new guys...that you are not quite sure that you are going to like...let alone love.

So what do you do to those new people...what any other sibling would do...you pick on them.

There are some things we restaurateurs have come up with that DON'T exist...

1. squeegee sharpeners
2. margarita ice
3. basements
4. the emptying of hot water wells
5. the circulation of stale air

I could go on and on...

The best part about these pranks is that everyone gets involved with it. That is mostly because everyone has fallen victim to it at some point.

Yesterday Miss Waters was due...

I was not sure who I was going to get to do it...Cini...Cini could do it.

She told her she would watch the door so she could do her sidework...

NOTE TO SELF...A SERVER WILL ALMOST NEVER DO ANYTHING TO HELP A NEW HOSTESS...HOSTESSES ARE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE TOTEM POLE!!

So she then takes her to the dish area to get a container...then over to the coffee/tea maker. A restaurant grade maker has a hot water well for hot teas and such. This has a water line hooked to it...not a tank...

So then Cini shows Miss Waters how to hold the container under the stream and drain the tank...

We all looked at the clock to see what time she started...9:56...

Long Legs McGee was getting some drinks...she is really nice so I figured she would spot blow...

during this time you see every person walking through the back line getting all big eyed...and rounding the corner to laugh out loud...literally!!

McGee told her that she hated that part of back work bc it takes forever.

The record was some dummy that did it for 23 minutes...

About 11 mins into it Waterboy suggested that she turn off the hot water valve outside...so Miss Waters asked me to unlock the door outside.

I told her that I could not do that bc it couldn't be turned off while we were open.

Then I grew a conscious...I told her that the hot water valve was something he made up...that Waterboy was pranking her...

THE BEST PART...

She laughed...a little embarrassed...and went back to emptying the well...NOT CONNECTING THAT I JUST TOLD HER IT WAS A PRANK...

I asked her what she was doing...then it clicked...she told us that she hated us...which meant that she loved us...FUN TIMES!!!

Then we explained to her that she had to "pass it on"...it was her turn to get someone else...she was ok with that.

That was the point that we shared with her all the other funnies that people get "got" with...good times...

I found it humerous that Waterboy tried to get her with a second one when after THREE years of working there he called another restaurant to see if they had extra margarita ice...because our frozen margarita machine was running low...

GOOD TIMES!!!