"Stuff is eaten by dogs, broken by family and friends, sanded down by the wind, frozen by the mountains, lost by the prairie, burnt off by the sun, washed away by the rain. So you are left with dogs, family, friends, sun, rain, wind, prairie and mountains. What more do you want?"
Federico Calboli
Monday, July 30, 2012
Aphorism
""A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person."
Yep- I have just spent a week with a Jazz course crowd who treated a hard working waitress as if she was invisible! - I demonstrated how to appreciate her, and embarrassed some . It turned out she had just completed a 5yr French law degree, and was about to begin further studies to become an international Corporate Lawyer
Yep- I have just spent a week with a Jazz course crowd who treated a hard working waitress as if she was invisible! - I demonstrated how to appreciate her, and embarrassed some . It turned out she had just completed a 5yr French law degree, and was about to begin further studies to become an international Corporate Lawyer
Did I ever tell you about the United Methodist minister, pastor of a "progressive" congregation in Denver (we were friends with his wife), who went ballistic in a Vietnamese restaurant in Philadelphia because they would not take credit cards?
He made such a scene that I thought the cook would come out from the kitchen and "sort him out" with a cleaver.
It was one of M's sister's and her husband's neighborhood hangouts, so we were mainly embarrassed for them.
Yep- I have just spent a week with a Jazz course crowd who treated a hard working waitress as if she was invisible! - I demonstrated how to appreciate her, and embarrassed some .
ReplyDeleteIt turned out she had just completed a 5yr French law degree, and was about to begin further studies to become an international Corporate Lawyer
Moral: Never assume anything about ANYONE!!
JohnnyUK
Yep- I have just spent a week with a Jazz course crowd who treated a hard working waitress as if she was invisible! - I demonstrated how to appreciate her, and embarrassed some .
ReplyDeleteIt turned out she had just completed a 5yr French law degree, and was about to begin further studies to become an international Corporate Lawyer
Moral: Never assume anything about ANYONE!!
JohnnyUK
Damn straight.
ReplyDeleteJim Cornelius
True dat. As they say
ReplyDeleteDid I ever tell you about the United Methodist minister, pastor of a "progressive" congregation in Denver (we were friends with his wife), who went ballistic in a Vietnamese restaurant in Philadelphia because they would not take credit cards?
ReplyDeleteHe made such a scene that I thought the cook would come out from the kitchen and "sort him out" with a cleaver.
It was one of M's sister's and her husband's neighborhood hangouts, so we were mainly embarrassed for them.
I've heard a slightly different version
ReplyDelete"If they are nice to you and mean to the waiter, how they are to the waiter is how they really are."
SBW