Word: waitressing
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...basked in the prime-time televised applause of broadcast executives in Houston. He startled a waitress, "Shrimp" Hamilton, by dropping in at the lunch counter of Houston's Keystone Drugstore to buy a cup of coffee and a 6-oz. jar of hot "Evangeline peppers" (leaving a $1 tip). He took a stroll downtown in that city, and paused to speak with a traffic policeman, Ignacio Aranda. He chatted with U.S. astronauts and Soviet technicians at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, lauding their courage for never "giving up," not even during dire emergencies in space...
...could I describe what I've been doing? An adventure. Also trying to find different people, whether it be the car hiker [parking lot attendant], Lovin' Al Pommier, or a spot welder, or the airline stewardess, or the telephone operator. Or a certain waitress in a restaurant I went to. She seemed good. The one I called Dolores Dante...
...been a waitress in the same restaurant for twenty-three years. Many of its patrons are credit card carriers on an expense account--conventioneers, politicians, labor leaders, agency people. Her hours are from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., six days a week...
...became a waitress because I needed money fast, and you don't get it in an office. My husband and I broke up and he left me with debts and three children. My baby was six months. The fast buck, your tips. The first ten-dollar bill that I got as a tip, a Viking guy gave to me. He was a very robust, terrific atheist. Made very good conversation for us, 'cause...
...People imagine a waitress couldn't possibly think or have any kind of aspiration other than to serve food. When somebody says to me, 'You're great, how come you're just a waitress?' Just a waitress. I'd say, 'Why, don't you think you deserve to be served by me?' It's implying that he's not worthy, not that I'm not worthy. It makes me irate. I don't feel lowly at all. I myself feel sure. I don't want to change the job. I love...