A recent day at work...

...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, before the 4th of July:

1) My one (chubby) (Thai) coworker tells me that she heard that I tipped over a water pitcher by the front host stand, and it turns out that both my one (older) (Thai) coworker who's a whiz at the phones and my one (newer) (taller) (Thai) coworker both were telling her about it, although they had worked that very shift with me and hadn't said anything to me, then, even as I took time and went about cleaning it up.

2) I bring in some sausage and cheese and kohlrabi and put it out on plates for both the front-of-house workers and the back-of-house workers, and I also bring in samples of my white sangria that I'm making for the 4th and I let people try it with and without soda water, to get their feedback.

"The bosses are out of town, and it's like a party in here," I was like.

I also bring in a block of white cheddar cheese where the plastic had started to blow up, to discuss what I'd learned on Reddit and debate with my coworkers whether it was still possible to eat it.

(It was; the taste was just beginning to turn.)

3) The one (older) (Chinese-Thai) cook isn't working that shift, but he was in a nearby major city with a friend earlier that day, so he drops off some to-go boxes of roast duck and roast pork that he had gotten at a well-known (Chinese) restaurant there.

"Here," my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker is like, divvying up pork and duck into a box for me, along with some little plastic tubs of the sauce. "It is like my mother says, if they give you sauce, you use it.'"