The following conversational excerpt is the primary reason I will not miss waiting tables:
Me: (Random introductory stuff to table, followed by request for drink order.)
Man at Table: "Iced tea."
Me: "Sir, have you had our iced tea before?"
MAT: "No..." (Suspicious glare.)
Me: "It's tropical passion, made with an infusion of several different flower and plant flavors...it tastes a bit like mango." (Internal cringe at the fact that I am required to say "tropical passion" to strangers several times a day - David Overton, if you could refrain from naming your next iced tea flavor after a Fox reality TV show, that would be super.)
MAT: "I just want regular iced tea."
Me: "We only have the mango tea and green tea."
MAT: "You don't have just regular iced tea?"
Me: "No, sir. Only the mango tea and green tea."
MAT: "You really don't have just a regular house tea?"
Me: "The mango tea IS our regular tea, sir." (Internally: "You caught me! I've been lying this whole time! The trick is to ask more than three times for the regular ice tea, and then it will miraculously appear!")
MAT: "Mango tea, then." (Heavy, suspicious sigh.)
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haha! ooh! ooh! especially if you get indignant! if you get indignant with your server and make them feel dumb you get 2 points at the humil-i-game(!) and get what you want up to 75% faster! regular iced tea, here i come. faster, server, faster! STRAW!
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