why did the chicken cross the road?
… to get some pizza after drinking at the ole barn.
well… it’s been a crazy day for me. i’ve had this stiff neck for 2 days. i could barely move yesterday and it is still with me today. the only reason i could go to work at all was because my wife rubbed it for half an hour. i went in at lunch and as soon as we got completely slammed, i was notified that all of the employees cars had been ticketed. we’ve been parking on the right of way of a nearby street and someone with the christmas spirit decided to complain and so i’ve got 11 parking tickets to pay. merry christmas.
so, instead of working bussing tables and helping in the kitchen, i spent the next few hours trying to figure out where i was going to park my many employees… the stiffness in my neck only worsening…
i came home for about an hour and then went back up for the dinner rush. lord have mercy, it was quite the rush. i don’t know but it might have been one of the busiest days of the year. i spent the entire night stressing out in the kitchen trying to figure out how i could help speed up the orders, but the kitchen is crowded with 6 people and my 250 pounds makes an unbearable seventh. i finally settled down in front of the oven, manning the cooking pies so the other guys could concentrate on making pies… now i’ve got a pretty severe headache to add to my terribly stiff neck. and the lightnin’ salvage cash register died in the middle of it’s busiest day of the year…
however, i do not mean to sound ungrateful for all the business, as i love to be at work when it’s busy and i love to be in the middle of it all. i bottled 20 salad dressing bottles tonight because our prep guy had underestimated how many we would need on this our biggest selling salad dressing day of the year. today we sold over 50 bottles of dressing.
the new t-shirts that came out recently are flying off the shelves. but alas, now that christmas is upon us i imagine things will start to settle back out. i am so happy about the next 2 days off and seeing the kids on christmas morning and spending time with my mom and in-laws. we’ve got lots of great meals planned together and none of them are pizza. i’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing.
merry christmas
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