Ethnography

Ethnography
Showing posts with label Jeffery Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeffery Jones. Show all posts

December 11, 2015

Way to kill the mood

    It was a late night a stacks, It was around 9:00 at night. It was a regular night at Stack's. The were about 5 tables filled. One table had a couple sitting at it. The man appeared to be 40 or so. The woman was in her mid to late 30s. The were bother dressed casual but not bad. The woman said, "Andrew, I love spending time with you. Even if it is just a stacks a night away from the kids is always nice." "I know, Jessica. Those Kids can be quite the handful, I'm not sure if the babysitter will survive the night." Andrew laughed.  The waitress walked up to the couple and said, "How are you two enjoying your evening?" Andrew, "Everything has been fantastic, thank you Susan!" The waitress was a young woman in her late twenties. Her eyes had bags under them; She was probably tired from a long day at work, and looking forward to her shift ending. As the waitress walked away Andrew reached out and grabbed Jessica's hand lovingly as they gazed into each others eyes.
    At that moment four boy's around the age of 18 walked into Stacks. two of them were white, one appeared to be native american, and the other one was African american. As they sat down at the table the African american one, Isaac said, "So what are we going to my place after this to pre-game?" One of the white ones, Travis said,"I don't really care dude but where the hell is the waiter i'm thirsty as hell!" The other two sat on their phones barely paying attention to the other ones.  The waitress walked up to them and said, "Would you gentleman like anything to drink?" The other white one, Jake said, "I'll have a Dr. pepper, beautiful." Travis just ordered a water, Isaac got a sprite, and the native american one, Adan ordered a coffee." After the waitress left to get their drinks Jake whispered, "Guys did you see how that waitress flirted with me she totally wanted me." Adan turned and slapped Jake on the head and yelled, "You're the only one flirting dumb-ass! She's probably at least ten years why would she want you?" Everyone in the restaurant turned their heads at the sound of the commotion. The other two boys pulled out their phones again right before Jake slapped Adan back and exclaimed, "Dude shut the hell up! What do you even know!" Travis and Isaac both said, "Boy this is totally going on my story!" The waitress came back after thing settled down and the boys placed their orders.
      After the waitress left Isaac crumpled his straw wrapper into a ball and yell, "Three pointer as he tried to make it into Jake's drink. The shot missed, but Jake got mad and said, "Isaac are you trying to catch these hands?" A crumpled wrapper made it into Jake's drink and Travis laughed, "He might, but i am!" The other boys laughed while Jake steamed.
     The couple looked back at the boys and Jessica said, "Even if ours aren't here some kids have to ruin the mood." Andrew asked, "why can't we have just one quiet night together?" Andrew then left the money on the table and left angrily with Jessica.

September 7, 2015

How Rude

I walked into Stacks Pancake House, and I sat down at a table in the middle of the restaurant. At the table in front of me sat young Hispanic woman with her three daughters, Sara, Lily, and Stephanie. The youngest, Stephanie was making mess of the place, but she was making an even bigger scene with all the noise she was causing. The other daughters weren't much better either. Martha continued to look at a phone an completely ignore the ruckus her daughters were making the entire time. The most she did was stick a tablet in front of Stephanie to quiet her down instead of scolding her.
An elderly couple was also in the restaurant, they gave the woman dirty looks, and they also whispered to each other. They were probably remarking on how the mother should do something about her daughters.
The old couple was the first to pay there bill and leave, while the family was still "eating". The family left not ten minutes after that. The restaurant was quiet and the waiters went about their business. when four high school boys walked in.
They all looked exhausted even though it was afternoon. One remarked about how he was still F***d up. They all sat down at booth, ordered their food, and pulled out their phones. They sat looking at their phones with out talking for a few minutes, When one of them, James shows another, Trent a video. The video had loud trap music on it, when it was over both boys laughed loudly. The other boys also showed videos to Trent with loud trap music. They were probably videos of Sun City Music Festival which had happened that weekend. The boys continued to make noise and disturb the rest of the restaurant as I left. That just goes to show you, you never know how rude the people will be whenever you go to Stack's.