Word: waitering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...called up the place and had a nice conversation with "David," a waiter who seemed utterly puzzled by our interest in the Obama Maki. See the conversation after the jump...
...bitter. Other times it was cloyingly sweet with condensed milk. But the whispered questions at teahouses in Rangoon and across Burma were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling up to slosh hot water into our glasses? Good. What did I, as an American who had the good fortune to vote in one of the most exciting presidential races in recent memory, think of Burma's upcoming national elections...
...them. But the young student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections," he said. "People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look forward to." I watched as the English-speaking waiter loitering a little too close to our table grinned. But it wasn't the smirk of a government informant. It was a smile, I think, of hope...
...busy Saturday evening dinner service became a very busy Saturday evening dinner service, I watched as a fellow waiter burst suddenly into tears.The restaurant’s background music had just transitioned from a soulful Diana Ross ballad to Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” and I couldn’t decide whether “men are dogs,” “insufficient tip,” or “another waiter’s gibes” was a likelier explanation for her sorrow. “My mother...
...popular joke deriding Medvedev: "Putin and Medvedev are customers in a restaurant. After Putin orders a steak, the waiter asks him, "And the vegetable?" Putin responds: "He'll have steak...