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...newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel, a minister who professes to be "a happy man," Jo is increasingly dissatisfied with her predictable life. Her three grown daughters have left the house, her career no longer provides the excitement it once did and she tires of her responsibilities as the minister...
...therapist keels over and dies of a heart attack. However, Gibbons remains unfazed and leaves the office in a Zen state of unshakable relaxation, having finally decided simply "not to go" to his job. The transition is complete when he breaks up with the girlfriend and begins courting a waitress, played by Jennifer Aniston, who fits in perfectly with this under-talented cast. Gibbons does return to work, however, and his new attitude inexplicably impresses two new executives hired to clean house at Initech, resulting in his promotion and the release of Samir and Michael. Now vowing revenge...
...order another beer. My waitress returns with a plastic cup--the sort they serve in at NASCAR events. I politely inquire as to why my beer is not in a nice, tall, glass receptacle. She explains that the bar has run out of glass dishware. She is not particularly apologetic. I take up my cup, struggling not to collapse its form thereby squeezing out its contents...
...stand at the deli counter, ordering a roast beef on rye with lettuce from a knockout waitress who looks as if she comes from India. She slices the roast beef and reaches for the lettuce. My arm brushes against her wrist. We fix each other in a longing gaze. The lights in the deli go out, and then, in the sweaty summer evening, with the red neon pastrami sign flashing in the window, we roll around on the checkered linoleum among the containers of cole slaw and potato salad with chives. In the morning we run off together...
Erin wouldn't even have voted if not for Jesse, but Trista wasn't that impressed. A third waitress, not crazy about either Jesse or being a Hooters girl, asked TIME to make up a name for her. O.K., we can do that. "I think it's stupid to cut tuition credits," said Bambi. "And all he ever talks about is how he was a Navy SEAL...