My first wife, Renee, died in 1995. In the 1980’s she played a very small part in the Neil Simon movie, The Slugger’s Wife, starring Michael O’Keefe and Rebecca de Mornay. Renee was one of the baseball player’s wives and sat in the box next to de Mornay; she maybe got 15 seconds of screen time.
In the movie Michael O’Keefe plays a baseball star who marries a singer named Debbie-which happens to describe my second wife.
Just a little coincidence.
You can hear wife number 2 sing at the Shamrock during Bragg Jam on July 25 at 10:00 AM with the Back Spasms featuring her eternally juvenile husband on guitar. Joey Stuckey, Jimmy Gaudet and the rest of the band will be there and we have added a great saxophone player.
I appreciate a good waiter or waitress, but here are my most common peaves:
Gets too familiar. Too friendly to the point of intruding on the relationship with your fellow diner. I appreciate the service, but if there is going to be a relationship here, be sure the customer starts it.
Too many interruptions. I do not need to be checked on every 3 minutes. If I am eating and there is food in my mouth and my glass is full, leave me alone. Ask me if I have everything I need and maybe check back once during the meal and if my glass is more than half empty. If I am engaged in a conversation or even worse just shy of the punch line in a joke, do not interupt me and just ask if everything is all right. Everything was allright, but now you just ruined my punchline and story, dammit!
Where is my check?. It’s lunch and I need to get back to the office. I am long finished eating and my waitress has dissappeared like beer at a barbeque. It seems that the waittress that interrupts the most is the hardest to find when you are ready to pay and leave.
A good waiter or waitress is friendly, helpful, and non intrusive.
tips to Kimberly for the suggestion
