An evening of a storm, at my new job.

1) “Fucking lipstick,” I start saying as a schtick to my one (affable) coworker who was in the (military), pulling up dirty paloma glasses with the red spice still around a bit of the rim in a big blotch that somewhat resembles a gigantic lipstick stain.

2) Before I’m set to clock out as the restaurant is closing, the storm alerts go off on all of our phones, and then the sirens start, and the one (quiet) (introverted) (tatted) (white) manager asks me if I want to leave right away to get ahead of the storm and she can call me an Uber because she knows that I take the bus, but I think and I text the nearby bus stop for arrival times and there’s no reply and so I say it’s better to wait in the basement breakroom and I just have a few more minutes of work so I can finish it up and clock out and go wait there.

And, I do, and I chill out for like 35 minutes and do shit online on my phone as I eat some macaroni-and-cheese and Southwestern corn salad that had been left over from a reception and that they put out in 2 big trays for all of us.

Some of the building residents from the upper floors are in the basement social area, too, and I see the one (older) (Latina) (hostess), who turns out to live in the building, which I did not know.

She says she never knows when we have food “back there” (i.e. in "the server alley" when she's working), so I promise the next time there’s food, I’ll come up to her host-stand and let her know, I didn’t know that that was happening and I would have come up earlier that night and told her if I had known that she didn't know it was there.

3) When I come up and text info for the bus, it still doesn’t return info and I wonder if the bus lines shut down during a tornado alert or warning or whatever, so I walk over to the nearby transit terminal and what do you know, busses are running and mine comes soon, and the driver says wind might have made their system at the bus garage go out, and when that happens it cuts out stuff like the texting and this app that they use for paychecks or schedule or whatnot, too, so that's probably why I couldn't get arrival times on my phone.