Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: I worked as a waitress one summer during college. The restaurant had just opened--it had always been my boss's dream to own a restaurant, but he was from a different state and misjudged the amount of money the average resident of my hometown was willing to ....


Comment preview: Hey everyone.. I've been reddicted for about two years now but only recently acquired a login name.. So I'm new to this whole comment thing. I am 21 years old working for a corporate popular restaurant. I am a waitress, and I'm kind of sad to read all the ....


Comment preview: I worked as a waitress on one of the major cruise lines. The Hours were long, no days off for 9 or 10 months straight. The work was extremely abusing and exhausting. The treatment from the supervisor and staff was generally bad, certain nationalities got d ....


Comment preview: My inlaws own a restaurant. For them the margins are higher because they work bloody hard. My father in law is basically a replacement for 3 cooks. He can run the kitchen by himself if need be but usually has 1-2 extra cooks on board so he doesn't over exe ....


Comment preview: I used to work as a waitress in a pub/restaurant and on this day I was one of two waitresses working both the bar and the restaurant, so it was all quite hectic. A young couple came in with a child and quietly sat down in a corner of the bar area where the ....


Comment preview: 80s song: ["Don't You Want Me Baby"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0) by The Human League. Everybody knows the chorus ("don't you want me baby, don't you want me, ohhhh oh-oh-oh"), but the song is actually really dark. It's about a guy who can ....


Comment preview: A guy I was really into said he wanted to "treat me to dinner". I agreed. I ordered the cheapest things on the menu, and he ordered the priciest drinks and entree. I'm a broke college student and had like $10 left to my name at the time. We got the bill, ....


Comment preview: I was working as a waitress at a pizza place during high school. The manager for the store would hire mentally challenged people to wash dishes and bus tables during the weekends. One weekend we were swamped, and things were getting a bit crazy. A woman wi ....


Comment preview: I was young, and pregnant, and my (now ex) husband took all of our money to buy drugs and left town when eviction papers showed up. I was working as a waitress at the time. I had to get second waitressing job and live in a car because I simply had nowhere ....


Comment preview: I run into these all the time as well. I work as a waitress at a beer pub that has around 300 different beers. We're trained extensively to learn everything about beer. I mean EVERYTHING: how to describe the color (rosy amber with copper highlights, for ex ....


Comment preview: A few years ago I was living in New York with my girlfriend at the time. She was working as a waitress at a nightclub and became really close friends with another of the waitresses who was dating one of the partners. I never loved the guy but the four of ....


Comment preview: My mother-in-law: She has recently moved into my basement after a divorce everyone (including her) saw coming a mile away. She is in her 40's, and has spent her entire life working as a waitress part-time. You would think a person in this scenario would ....


Comment preview: I was working as a waitress at a sportsbar with like a gazillion draft beers. It was out in the boonies. This place was probably 10,000 sqft with a really open floor plan. Managment was mostly cool, the other servers were catty and lazy. There was this one ....


Comment preview: I used to work as a waitress in a restaurant near a court house and we always got judges, lawyers and the like in for meals. Most of them were grand but this one guy was always trying to feel up the waitresses, most of the time we managed to avoid his wan ....


Comment preview: Google translation of the video description: In Saratov lift his head crushed employee cafe Within minutes, the woman tried to get herself, but all attempts were in vain. The woman worked as a waitress and took a freight elevator foods when the elevator su ....


Comment preview: In an earlier episode I believe Walt mentioned that he met Skyler when he was working at Los Alamos National Lab (she was working as a waitress). In tonight's episode he said that he left Grey Matter when he was in grad school (which presumably would happe ....


Comment preview: We had one kinda shady kid. He dealt hard drugs and handguns. His dad was in prison. His mother worked as a waitress, not a job that supports a family of 3. (He had a brother.) The type of guy who looks awful on paper. He was one of the most generous, nice ....


Comment preview: I was seventeen and I was working as a waitress. It was a slow night and we were about to close when the guy of my dreams comes in and tells me he needs to speak with me. He also used to work at the restaurant so he had parked in the back and came in throu ....


Comment preview: See this is because your waiters are actually paid at the restaurants they work at. My wife works as a waitress and she is paid by her restaurant a whopping 2.15$/hour. So if she works a full shift she can buy a fast food combo meal. Count into that she ge ....


Comment preview: I worked as a waitress in a regular coffee shop a few years ago; it was my first job, and I was only 14 when I started. The waitresses wore a uniform of fairly short skirts (with shorts underneath) and white button-up shirts; it wasn't particularly sexy, j ....


Comment preview: Your sentiment is nice, but it comes off a bit judgemental. For all you know he might love doing this stuff because he gets to do it with his best buddies or family etc.. maybe it's an outlet for him, something he really enjoys, but isn't his whole life. ....


Comment preview: when i worked as a waitress at a "higher class" restaurant in toronto, a man was seated by himself at one of my tables. he looked very sullen, so as part of the "greet" i asked him how he was doing. he said he'd found out his wife of 20+ years had cheated ....


Comment preview: As a 28 year old woman, I agree with what the other women here are saying. My own experiences sound very similar-- all starting with men yelling lewd things from car windows by the time i was 11. When i worked as a waitress in high school, a man in his 40s ....


Comment preview: They've always been this way though. I remember in the early 90's I worked as a waitress at a steakhouse in the [Lake of the Ozarks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_of_the_Ozarks) area in Missouri. The owner of this establishment was particularly prick ....


Comment preview: Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: There is no doubt that our country has faced, and still faces, many challenges. Our enemies abroad threaten us with cowardly acts of terror. Our citizens fight to earn a decent wa ....