Typical Day...

It’s a rather warm Friday today considering how chilly it got during the days for the past week. As I walked into the restaurant I was greeted and seated. The woman who greeted me seemed rather irritated as if she hated her job and did not want to be here. When she seated me she simply slid the menu over the booth and stormed off. I looked around in quite astonishment when I realized how many people were in the restaurant in the middle of a weekday and it wasn’t just elderly folks as usual either.

The booth that was directly in front of me was occupied by four females. They all ranged in age by quite a difference so I thought to myself that they were most likely some sort of office employees also considering the way that they were dressed would suggest that their job did not require much physical activity as they were all wearing fairly high high-heels and dresses or skirts. As I was asked what I would like to drink, the ladies in front me were receiving their food. Oddly, every single one of them got a sandwich with fries. When the waiter returned with my beverage she asked me if I was ready to place my order. After I gave her my order I noticed that one of the women had already finished all of her food in a matter of five minutes or less! I wondered to myself as to how that woman could not be embarrassed with herself considering that she had finished her whole meal before anyone else in less than five minutes. She then exclaimed how she could not believe how she ate all of her fries as if it were funny or cute (I found it quite unattractive). After some more time passed, all the women finished eating and none of the other three women completely finished their meal as the first woman did. In fact, it looked as if one of the women had only taken one bite of her sandwich and picked through her fries and left the rest there only to be thrown away. The women then gathered their belongings and left. When the waiter came back to start clearing up the huge mess of food, dishes and used napkins, the bus boy arrived and began to help. She began to talk with the bus boy about how the women left her a ten dollar tip but also about how few tips she had been getting lately. He simply stated that that was how things work.

As I continued to observe everything that was going on around the restaurant, an extremely loud voice startled me and what seemed to be like everyone else as well. It turned out to be an older man about in his late forties answering his cell phone. At first I thought to myself as to how rude that was, especially because of the fact that he was talking in such a loud and disruptive manner and continued to do so for what seemed to be at a very least of ten minutes. He was speaking so loud that the whole restaurant could easily hear everything that was going on. People continuously turned and looked at the disruptive man in disgust throughout the whole time he was on the phone. I wondered to myself as to how he couldn’t notice how loud he was being and how he could just continue to talk on the phone with everyone staring and giving him dirty looks. I wasn’t sure if he just didn’t care what other people thought or if he just didn’t notice everyone looking at him. I figured that he maybe just didn’t notice the attention he was attracting and as to how loud he was being, I thought he looked as if he was an individual with special needs; he was obese, had an oddly shaped body and had some facial features that could be comparable to someone with down syndrome.

When I finished my food, I set my dishes aside and looked around for my waiter the get my check. She was nowhere to be seen, but a very pretty blonde waitress about 19 years old that was sweeping the floor caught my eye. She noticed me looking and her and smiled, I awkwardly looked away as I instantly became the most nervous person in the world. Again, I inconspicuously looked at her noticed she had set the broom down and began to walk in my direction. Panic set in as I noticed that the only person she could be walking to was me. When she arrived, she asked if was doing alright and if she could get me anything and I simply replied “no thanks” after what seemed to be hours of thinking what to say. She replied, “just wave me down if you need anything”. I then exclaimed that I had actually needed my check. She then returned with the check and I awkwardly walked away disappointed in myself confidence.