It wasn’t too busy last night.
I checked on the few tables that I had and everyone was happily eating so I walked to the front cash register to wait for more customers to come in. I glanced to my right and saw a cutie sitting at the counter.
Mmmm…mmm……mmmm
I looked at him and smiled. He motioned for me to come over…he did it just like a pro. I raised my eyebrow and smiled again. I walked over.
“Hey…Is someone helping you?” I ask him.
“I’m fine,” he says. “They got me.”
I realize that I know him. I met him a few weeks ago when he came in and all of the female servers were sweating him. I walked up to him and asked him where he was going so late at night and he told me that he worked for a recording studio. I was suprised when he told me which one. I had JUST been thinking that I needed to meet someone who worked there because that studio was infamous for hosting celebrities and I wanted to write a story about it.
So I guess in a way I manifested meeting him.
We chatted for a bit and he told me that he checked out my blog. I laughed and joked with him about needing some relationship advice. I went to check on my tables and then came back and sat down two seats down from him at the counter. I didn’t speak. I just sat down.
He had on his earphones, listening to music. He turned to me and asked, “Tee, do you have a piece of paper?”
I reached into my apron and grabbed my order pad. I tore off a sheet and handed it to him. The other servers were standing around watching as he took out a marker and wrote on the paper.
He handed it to me and I read his small handwriting. It was his myspace page and his email address.
I smiled and slipped it into my apron.
I went to check up on my tables and when I came back he was STILL sitting there. I asked him what his order was so that I could check on it and it turns out that they hadn’t even STARTED making his order and he had been sitting there for almost an hour already.
My manager came and apologized and immediately began making his food. He’s a sound engineer INTERN for the studio and also the food runner. What impressed me about this dude was the fact that he did not get heated or over react about his food not being ready. Most customers would curse or ask for a discount or something. He was so cool about it all.
I noticed him with a paper in his hand, checking off everyone’s order on the list. He double checked it to make sure he got everything and organized everything just right. I asked if he needed some syrup and he said he did. I made him a package of syrup- about 7 of them, for the guys at the studio.
It’s funny that..as I waited more tables I would occasionally glance back at the corner where he was organizing his order and…more than once…I caught him looking at me too.
Cute…
After he left I texted him and wrote: I really like the way you handled that situation. You were very smooth and level headed. It was nice seeing you again.
He wrote me back just about 10 minutes after I reached home this morning: Thanks. In this industry you have to have a cool head especially when you are around people who want things “Now”. It’s crazy. It was nice seeing you again too…Much love. Thanks for your help with my food. PS- Make sure you check out my myspace page.
I laughed when I read his text…glanced back up at the screen of my laptop…his picture stared back at me.
He has no idea…I’m on his myspace right now. ~smile~