I'm blown away by the garbage that flows from Crapzano and that people actually choose to listen & read his crap.
Good question. I can’t really answer since I don’t like to spend any more time than I have to when I eat alone.
Dude, I just played at a funeral where it was 33 degrees in Orlando. Horn was cold Adonal Foyle. No sunny pools here...
Thanks for the Florida update. My Condolences as well. I knew they were going to get cold range but the citrus crop and old men are now frozen. If the town has a Conchi Joes Seafood restaurant, go for it! PS: I once played trumpet for years and played in a concert band with obligation to play in the marching unit too. It was an Olds trumpet. Played many instruments.. Accordion, Drums (only a week then my dad could not take it)-(he was a lifelong Tenor sax and clarinet musician.) Went right to Bass guitar @13,. Picked up guitar as well. Nowadays I play along with music. No doubt-Bass is my Favorite!
Your's too!!!??? Holy shit, it's like every time he goes to the bathroom it's an emergency! I'm like, why the hell are you saving your shit? WTF else do you have to do?
I haven't ever really had that problem. And while a single guy I frequently would take a book in to read while I was at the restaurant. Even today, I'm on the road a lot for work/mil and eat alone while reading (violating about every principle of Keith Ferrazzi's business model, but in keeping well with my abject introversion). However, I'd like to think it was because of my politeness, patience, charm, good tipping and general Golden Rule-esque "don't be a dick" attitude than the fact than servers don't like women. It would seem odd to me though that that would happen much. I mean, there's a 60/40 ratio of female to male servers. I asked my wife (who served for a couple of years) about this, and she had 3 comments: 1) just like every other occupation, there is a certain percentage of assholes. It's likely higher in the service industry because the barrier to entry is low and turnover is high. She wouldn't be shocked that a server would hustle out a customer without dessert, but it would be rare and a surprise. 2) she wouldn't deviate much from her standard routines...trying to get them to buy an alcoholic beverage to start, push appetizers, always ask about dessert. Each one of those (at her restaurant) was another ~$10 on the order, which meant $2 in her pocket. It would be detrimental to allow your biases to factor into your service, except in the rare cases of #3... 3) she did say that, in other servers, she would see that there were some customers (see #1) where the server wouldn't even worry about a tip, they just wanted to be done. I asked her about your example and she said "no one I worked with would discriminate on sex or race (this was in the Seattle area, so it may be different in Birmingham or El Paso or something?), but there were servers who would, after a customer treated them poorly, basically be 'done' with the service." "Here's your food, here's your check, I have 5 other tables." The $10 tip or whatever wasn't worth dealing with those people.
EXACT same with my 6y/o. He'll be standing up playing Minecraft and then sprint to the bathroom. For a while there he was mistiming it. Mommy took care of those.
I just traded in my Olds Custom Crafted for a Bach 37. Not that I'm close to good enough to need it, but I'm working to get the chops back and maybe do some jazz stuff. With my ample free time...
Brian, at a SF restaurant I like a lot (Bluestem Brasserie), the manager told me at her last job she traveled a lot and often had dinner solo in restaurants. She was treated badly so often she now makes a point of telling her staff to pay special attention to solo women. This has happened to me way too many times to be random. I note on Yelp and don't return.
I over tip for good service and under tip for poor. I've been a server and have been in Customer Service most of my life so I will say though that I've been a victim of the "Black people don't tip" stereotype and treated like they didn't think I was going to.
I saw Little Feat in concert. I love them. Didn't get to see Frank, but I did go to a Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever the Fuck He Wants concert last year It was so great!
I wish I had seen them in their heyday. Saw a good interview with Bill Payne who shed some light on Lowell George. Basically said, "Lowell George was the John Belushi of Rock N' Roll." I think that's as good an answer as any. "Waiting For Columbus" is them at their absolute peak. Got it on double vinyl. I think it would have been interesting to see where George went after he split up from the group. "Thanks, I'll Eat Here" is such a low key, but great solo album.
