I had a nightmare about Applebee’s last night. Oh, how I hate serving nightmares. They are like intense little panic attacks.
I’m usually not very good at remembering my dreams and as I’ve gotten older they have become less vivid and the details slip away shortly after I open my eyes.
This dream was a lot like last night’s shift. I was a closing server, the last one to leave, also the last one to get a table (20 minutes to close.)
In my dream I was also closing, it was literally 5 minutes to 11 and a couple of people came in. (Actually, I think it was the mother and sister from Dead Like Me)
I grumpily took the table and while I was greeting them another table was sat. Then another, and another, and soon I realized they wouldn’t lock the door. Please! I yelled, lock the freakin door. We’re closed damnit!
But they wouldn’t, and people kept pouring into my tables. I couldn’t keep up and no one would help me. I got so upset I threw my apron on the floor, stepped on it, and without using most of my fingers, waved my manager goodbye and left.
Maybe it was a good dream after all.
On a side note, I was so tired from my real life shift last night that I left my $90 dollars I made just sitting in the restaurant and I didn’t even realize it until I got home. Oh, me.
On a side note from that side note, I got to sing the birthday song to Stacy and her table last night! So happy birthday!
Agh, restaurant dreams are the worst! You wake up feeling like you didn't even get a break from working. I used to have them all the time when I worked at Subway, and they were all pretty similar to the one you described-- I would be closing, and people wouldn't stop coming in, and my manager would demand that I wait on them all without any help.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, I ALWAYS have Perkins nightmares! I serve there, and my nightmares always consist of me having like a table of 30 and forgetting things. I'm glad I'm not the only one!
ReplyDeleteI know, it's like I just worked all night loooong. Those are the worst. At least in this one I got to quit :) Maybe it's an omen! But, then again... what would I write about?!
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ReplyDeleteI really like your blog. It's funny and really interesting. I wish you would post more often, though. Perhaps after every shift? That might be asking a bit much, though.
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