Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

1) After a big college football game where the local university lost, a group of people with opposing t-shirts come in and sit together, and I’m like, “Hey, no gloating [opposing team name] here!”, and towards the end of the meal when they don’t want dessert, I turn to the opposing team guy and am like, “Hey, what, no dessert to celebrate?!?!”

Later, too, when I’m on my break and having a cold brew coffee at a local patio, a guy with an opposing t-shirt goes right by me to go to walk in, and I call after him, “Hey, no [opposing team name] here!”, at which he laughs, and then for some reason he’s back out of the door a few minutes later, and as he comes out he turns to me and mugs this dramatic face and is like, “They kicked me out!!”

2) A big group of people come to order but ask about quick stuff, and when I ask them, it turns out they’re playing a nearby music bar and their cover band event had actually caught my eye, and so I pull out my smartphone and show them a picture of me with some serious rock and roll memorabilia of the group they cover, and they say that I should come by, but I say that I work too late and I could only come over for the very last part and it isn’t worth the money to get in, and when they hear that, they’re like, “We can put you on the list.”

So, I tell them my name, and, they do!

(It was kind of awesome.)

Also, they were waiting for one band member for a while, and I was like, “He has to be the drummer,” which made them laugh, since it wasn’t the drummer, the drummer was already there, but it totally is a thing that a drummer would do.

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