Why the 13th is Unlucky for Some
How to drop a real clanger……
Despite the awfulness of December in the catering industry you can always rely on someone or something to happen to ease the torture that is turkey and sprouts 24/7. Usually it is a trainee chef or a young waiter who provides the amusement with some form of gross stupidity but not yesterday.
Lunch service was busy yesterday, a conference lunch, some restaurant bookings, a christmas luncheon, a funeral wake and a delivery of new oven and grill right in the middle of it all kept ones blood pressure on a rolling boil. Until the manager walked into the kitchen.
“Chef, when did you serve the food for the wake?” “About an hour ago” said I. “Ah” said manager. I think there is something wrong, “Something wrong?” I asked (it seemed the best question)
“There are two men stood at the bar, both have just finished eating from the buffet, next to them is a pint which I poured for somebody about twenty minutes ago but he’s left it. One of the men looked at the beer and said “that’s a bit flat” so I explained to them both why it was. The other man looked at it and said there was as much life in it as the bloke who’s just been buried”
“That’s not very nice” I said. “No” said the manager, “But the other chap just looked at him and said the funeral was for a woman!!, this bloke has come to the wrong wake and helped himself to the buffet and now he’s asked me if I’ve any idea which hotel he should have gone to!!”
Customers, love ‘em.
That’s fantastic !
You couldn’t make it up !
Rod
December 14, 2007 @ 8:53 am
Rod,
The best bit was when he said, “I thought it strange that I didn’t recognise anyone” !!
Miles
December 14, 2007 @ 8:59 am
Miles,
Not a bad way to feed yourself - join a wake, birthday party whatever and claim confusion if found out.
December 14, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
Elsie,
It’s worth a try!
Miles
December 14, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
Miles,
Someone once told me a story about a funeral…. everyone was gathered at the church, the widow noticed three attractive women sat quietly at the back and assumed they must have been her husband’s girlfriends…. turns out they were at the wrong gathering too and had sat through the whole service
Cid
December 14, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
Cid,
It is unbelievable, it really is.
Miles
December 14, 2007 @ 10:45 pm