awkward sex talk

here's most of what i wrote a friend last night about my first night back at zippy's. i'm too lazy to write about it another time, so here goes:


my summer is going alright so far. tonight i started work. i was telling darrell whaley how strange it is that when i'm starting work, people in the continental US (we like to call it the "mainland") are sleeping, and when i'm sleeping, people are getting up and going about their days.

i'll tell you a story (cuz i ask you for so many... haha) tonight was a crazy first night back. i met a ton of new people. one of the new waitresses used to live in MO for several years of her life and just recently moved to HI.. so she and i had a lot to talk about MO (leaves changing color... weather). business started picking up rapidly as more and more people were coming in for dinner. being my first night back since christmas, i could barely keep up with the rotation and all of the complicated orders. what a way to be welcomed back in the throws of working. i kept thinking that i wanted to go home (or at least wanted people to go to their homes and have wonderful home-cooked meals... but then that bubble quickly faded when i realized the reason i was there.. not everyone can have wonderful home-cooked meals) so i worked through a rush that lasted almost three hours. by the time my break came, i was EXHAUSTED so i walked around the premises to get some fresh air from outside. i came across this local older lady who started cussing up a storm about not needing a man to one of the workers in the fast-food side of the restaurant and how it's better for a woman to be single for the rest of her life because there are way too many men who don't know how to treat women <-- this is the PG version that i'm giving you. not phased by her cursing, i asked her, "well, what if there is someone out there that would treat a woman right?" her response was that no man exists (except her dad). she went on with every other "four letter word" saying that such men are not found in hawaii and kept telling me to look elsewhere... i don't know if i agreed with her, but just nodded my head in being sympathetic. i kindly thanked her for her "words of wisdom" and finished my break as she ordered pastries from the bakery counter. when i came back from my break, there she was. in the dine-in restaurant... same lady who was cursing as if it were her native language... i said hi to her and she just kept goin' on telling me in front of her guests every time i passed the table how i need to keep my purity... in a not so "evangelistic" way. all i could do was nod my head and tell her, "okay, auntie... i will" (it's a local thing to call elders "aunty" and "uncle") now that i'm reflecting back on it.. yeah, all that to say that i got something along the lines of the sex talk (or at least quite graphic talk of sex) from a customer today.

awkward. that, and i got called a little girl too many times to count tonight. maybe that's why the lady started talking to me about sex

it's gonna be a very interesting summer working here again.