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...southern Indian town of Tiruchi last week, a 20-year-old hotel waiter scribbled hasty notes to family and friends, then committed suicide by gulping a bottle of insecticide. He was the third suicide in the area in a week...
...exercise had become a game that might be called "Guess the Source." There is a butler in it, for example, named Butler. Ah, so. When Marilyn Monroe was a starlet, she had a bit part in All About Eve. At a party in the film she called out, "Oh, waiter!", and George Sanders, at her elbow, said to her, "That isn't a waiter, my dear. That's a butler." "Well," said Marilyn, "I can't yell 'Oh, butler,' can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler...
...Silver Platter. All too frequently, complain restaurant owners, guests use doggie bags to haul off pilfered ashtrays, pepper mills, and silverware. A waiter in a smart West Coast spot got suspicious when a svelte woman customer actually demanded a doggie bag before taking a single bite of the sizzling steak he had just set before her. When he inquired discreetly if she were feeling unwell, she explained that her girdle was killing her; after a visit to the ladies' room, she returned to polish off the steak, her girdle doggie-bagged under her chair...
Defective Plumbing. Harrowed by fear that he will not get into college, Joseph is plucked from Brooklyn's comforting concrete and deposited in a summer camp to work as a waiter. Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling...
...pretty nice job somewhere, but the shoeshine boy saved his money and invested in some real estate. The college boy told him it wasn't a good investment. In the end, the shoeshine boy was worth a billion dollars, and the college guy was a waiter in some restaurant. It was one of the best stories I've ever read...