ICE Freeze Ok, I'm a recovering waiter/bartender who is now stuck in a corporate desk job. Sometimes I actually long for the "life" again. Great to have a wad of cash in my pocket on a Friday night. Anyhoo, I was working in a hotel as a banquet waiter in college and the function of the day was your basic pre-all day meeting breakfast buffet. As many of you know, buffets keep us busy with ENDLESS dirty plates that pile up like crazy. In addition, we had to pour coffee b/c it was not on the buffet line. So, there were two of us handling about 50 (!) people.
Towards the end I was cleaning up the last of the plates from a table of lingerers. One of the other patrons at the table offered to help me out by getting the coffee for his friend at the table. "No," he said, "Let the poor white trash kid get it for me." Everyone in the room froze (except me). I gave him a questioning look like I didn't hear him. He snapped his fingers at me and said, "C'mere boy!" I started towards him with four full pitchers of ice water. I "stumbled" on my way there and wound up giving him and his nice wool suit a TORRENT to ice cold water.
My co-waiter had to dash out of the room before he laughed himself into a hernia. I apologized profusely and tried to clean him off with a napkin. He looked at me to see if I was yanking his chain and did it on purpose but I kept my demeanor and he bought it. He bitched and moaned all the way to his room. I walked into the kitchen to a roar of laughter and copious cheers and applause.