4/28/12
waitress : woddy allen was right
De-constructing harry had
a scene in the movie : woody allen asks the stripper what does she
work for living . And she replies saying that she is a waitress and
she hates it. To which , woody allen replies is that every waitress I
have met keeps repeating this part.
She has been a waitress
for last 7 months and life behind the scenes have been far more
teaching than I could ever learn from my philosophy books. Would not
romanticise lest she give any wrong impressions. she stick to
stripper's lines : too hate the job. But she would give the reasons
for it unlike woody allen, who just threw an idea on to our face and
decided the audience to be smart enough to understand it!
Reasons she would hate
this job : ( let me redefine the word hate here : before she go into
any more details : hate in its purest sense , extreme sensation, it
affects you in a serious way, you dream about it often ) yeah, this
is the true meaning, unlike its regular usage , which has reduced its
relevance now days . So going back to hating this thing.
a) one always has to be
happy : even when one is tired, even when one is pissed off, even
when one is fired, even when someone dies . One has to be always
smiling
b) customer is always
right : whoever made this rule , did know that ego is the only thing
that matters at the end of the day and idiots customers have to kept
happy all the time
- you start talking to cutlery's, floor, dishwasher everything possible except human beings .
- you are no more sure about the difference between faking and having a normal conversation, you continue being waitress everywhere
e) you always are looking
things to clean, to clear up, your mind always is looking for dirt
f) you start talking like
them ( by them I mean the professionals in this field, who have been
in this industry for a decade and do not find a need to give it up) .
You are angry, shouting and most of the time frustrated .
g) by this point, I have
started realising that I am basically writing about problems faced by
ppl in any of the sectors : be it customer oriented, product oriented
.
h) so what makes my
waitress story so different : the fact that it was always supposed to
be a disguise , an alternative life, the most romanticised notion of
a dreamer , of a genius struggling to make ends meet before striking
the pot of gold .
And she was wrong : not
everyone makes the ends meet. Not everyone strikes the pot of gold.
You know y :@ waitress
forgets that it was her part-time job, she makes it her life . And
life makes her a waitress.
Life decides for her that
she was worth only being a waitress.
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