Another recent day…

…at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, this past fall:

1) My one (chubby) (Thai) coworker shows me pictures from her recent trip to see Maroon 5 in concert, and she shows me this far-away picture she took of a tatted Adam Levine taking off his shirt.

“He showed his abs,” she was like.

“How do you know?”, I was like. “It’s so far away.”

And, I puffed up my belly and used my finger to trace lines across it like a six-pack.

“Maybe he has a tattoo on his belly so it looks like abs, but he doesn’t really have them.”

“You!”, she was like, at that, meaning that only I am the kind of person who would do that sort of thing.

2) When I passed by the one back-counter register, I saw the owners’ (eldest) daughter, and I was like, “[Her first name], I didn’t know you were working today!!”, and she turned around, and it turned out to be their (middle) daughter.

“See,” my (chubby) (Thai) coworker was like, “They look alike! I do that.”

“Yes!”, I was like, “But you have glasses! I have no excuse!”

I then proceeded to tell the (middle) daughter that all this meant that if she wanted, she could steal her older sister’s ID and use it for stuff.

3) When I bring a large soup-pot back to the dish-washing area because we don’t have many of them and so you need quick turn-around with washing, I ask my one (Guatemalan) coworker if he wants it here or there, pointing at each of the two sink-basins, and instead he’s like “Alli!” (“There!”), pointing to the nearby trash-bin.

4) A (fatter) (younger) (gay) (Latino) customer is in with his partner and another couple, and he asks if we have anymore special desserts like we did for Halloween.

(We didn’t.)

And, he says that he loved it, and he thinks that the owner should make more, like for Christmas and stuff, so I pass that along to her.

5) My one (younger) (taller) (Latino-American) coworker is on a hot story about a major campus business closing down, and so towards the end of shift when stuff is slowing down, he pulls his laptop out and works on the story and is messaging other campus people through Slack to figure out the state of inquiries to major proper-holders etc.