Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:50 AM
I don't know why, but every now and again I have this reacurring dream. Now, I don't mean to brag or anything, but I was pretty cat's ass as a waiter back in my college days. And although they seem to be a favorite target of Saturday Night Live and other comedy shows, Olive Garden gave me my first real break as a server. Some consider the chain to be the "McDonalds of Italian", but let me tell you: working for a company that has high standards for cleanliness and procedures is way better than working in a place where the coked up kitchen manager flies off the handle and where the servers weigh their pot on the prep-hall scales (been there, done that).
So anyway, every so often I get this dream where i'm back working there again, but instead of me being the server-I-was, I'm the server from hell and the restaurant is trying to screw us over. Last night I went back to work there, but the whole place had changed. The sections were different, the table numbering system was different, and I had no idea who my partner was. Then, I realized that they went to small trays to carry food out...so small that you could only put one bowl of soup and a drink on at a time (if you've eaten at OG, you know how much soup and salad that place goes through). So I've got people sitting in tables but have no idea if they're in my section or not. Then the menu is changed.
"I'll have the burger"
"I'm sorry, we don't ahve a burger on the menu"
"Oh, then what's this?" (Points to burger that's now, for whatever reason, on the OG menu)
"Oh, I guess they added it...sorry, I've been away for a bit..."
The worst part about these dreams is that you wake up feeling like you just worked an 8 hour shift. It's like you just went through the whole stress of work all over again, but while sleeping...that's how it feels for me anyway.
Anybody get similar type dreams of past working experiences? I left out the part of my dream where I had to drag a cart through a cemetary while monsters that looked like characters from Street Fighter 2 walked around, but I figure that has more to do with playing WoW before bed than anything else. ;)
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