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

  1. you start talking to cutlery's, floor, dishwasher everything possible except human beings .

  1. 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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