I am le tired–long but profitable day at D-town
I don’t mean for this blog to turn into my personal tip notebook, but working a full day’s shift leaves me close to empty by the end of the day. When I got off work yesterday, for some reason I decided to go for a run that totally destroyed me. I’m not even sure why I subjected myself to such torture, especially when you consider I spend most of my day running on the Denny’s treadmill.
Today the workout was worth it. I made $45.50 in tips, the equivalent of the last two days combined. I barely had a moment to breath. At the same time management was pushing servers to sell the nearly expired desserts. And guess who won the contest?
That’s right, yours truly served a couple apple pies a la mode. The prize: my choice of any nearly expired dessert. I picked the chocolate nut brownie, which I scarfed down on my way to the parking lot because didn’t get a chance to eat lunch—my break was at 9 AM.
Tomorrow I have an interview with Canadian public radio. It will be my last interview until a literary agent has given me the green light to come out of media hibernation. For now, I have been instructed to keep quite, at least until a book is on the shelves.
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February 4th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
“management was pushing servers to sell the nearly expired desserts.”
Hahaha!
February 4th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
If a book is on the shelves, I will certainly be one of the first to buy it! I wish you good luck in your endeavours!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:40 am
I have to ask…why the Canadian connections all the time? I’m a proud Canuck (Canadian) and I saw your story featured on a Globe & Mail page and ended up here checking your story out. Now I see that you have landed an interview with Canadian public radio! What’s up? I have to say, we have a lovely country over here you should try to Craigslist your way into another country & see how that goes! think of the writing possibilities…border controls, tim horton’s coffee (possibly for the first time), what are the differences between these 2 neighbouring lands, etc?!!
Love the posts – a lot of fun. You seem to be a really decent non-judgemental guy. We need more!
ps – Obama is right, btw, our health care really is great. despite your news to the contrary…:)
February 9th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I can’t wait til I can hand-sell your book to customers!