Two recent doings at work...

...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now:

1) The one (new) (Chinese-American) server who's been a hostess before but not a server was like, "Yeah, there really are cultural differences in how people behave," and she was telling me that she was frustrated at this table of mostly (South Asian from South Asia) (undergraduate age) students and a few (South Asian-American) (undergraduate age) students, because they were all talking over one another and not really responding to her when she was trying to finalize their order, as they kept the one menu out on the table maybe for later, like people from that culture(s?) often do.

2) During a slow day, I taught my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker and my one (younger) (female) (Guatemalan) coworker Exquisite Corpse, and we took turns passing each other the little drawings that we were making on the back of old receipts that we keep under the counter and staple together to make the little booklets that we take customers' orders in.

And, when I told my one (younger) (female) (Guatemalan) coworker in (Spanish) that Frida Kahlo played this game, her eyes got big for a second and she was like, "Ohhhhhhhhhhhh," and you could tell that she was very pleased that we were doing something that Frida Kahlo had also done.

(My one [chubby] [Thai] coworker didn't know who Frida Kahlo is.)

A few of our drawings were quite good, but we had miscommunicated and so the top person had drawn down through the neck to the shoulders, and then the person below them had started with the neck and then drawn a second set of shoulders again, and together it just looked off.

So, when my one (younger) (female) (Guatemalan) coworker was saying that we had done really a good job on two of them, I pointed that out and said it didn't look right, and she was like, Hmmph, and then it was like a lightbulb went off and she suddenly took those two drawings and folded them to hide the second set of neck and shoulders, and then the drawings really looked stellar.