:: Life on Planet Dan-E ::

:: Monday, November 19, 2007 ::

:: Server Stories: Coffee Addict ::

It seems there's a few axioms about the service staff who work at a restaurants; you like to drink, you like to do drugs (or perhaps both), you're kinda of a slacker, and you need lots and lots off caffeine.

I don't have a drinking problem, I don't do drugs, but I seem to have a fairly strong need for caffeine. You'd think this would be odd considering that I wake up around 12:00 and most of my shifts start around 5:00pm. In my case, I usually chug some Diet Coke with my breakfast (a few of my co-workers wake up just before they come to work). But even then I need something, extra once I get to work so I pick up a can of Rockstar or Monster energy drink when I start. If you've never had it, it's Red Bull but the can is twice as large. It used to be sufficient but now they started selling an even larger can (the equivalent of three Red Bulls) and I've switched over to those.

Pretty intense, right? It gets better; now that it's getting darker sooner and the first couple of hours of work is dead, I also drink a couple of cups off black coffee while I stand around. And the funny thing is, that's still not as much coffee as I used to drink back when I had a desk job.

How human beings survived before discovering coffee, I'll never know.

Labels: coffee, NaBloPoMo, server stories, waiting

:: Miscellaneous Ramblings by Dan-E at 10:41 PM [+] :: | 0 comments
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