(Edits to be done soon)
Sometimes when you do the same thing everyday it is like looking through a window pane and seeing what life is like through other people sitting around a table. How you are really not like them.
Familiar.
It’s 2:25pm a group of people all in black punch in their own personal code. Click click click click enter. They go over to the man who wears the blue tie and listen to direction.
Ray: You are on kitchen. The party count is 450. We need two water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with 10 rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks put in the freezer.
Me: Okay Ray-ray.
As you walk through the kitchen it is a bunch of cheerful hellos, calm hellos almost too calm. A storm is coming. after walking through the kitchen its two flights of stairs to a room with rolling containers of different size and shape dishes, chaffers, burners, serving utensils, and bread baskets. 1,2,3,4…..42 I try my best to stack them into my arms.
Into the elevator I go. Ping! the old elevator made it down to the first floor. Now the balancing act of making it past the dish line, and around the bustle of the kitchen begins! Will she make it she does!
Kick! into a dark vestibule she goes. Kick! Into the lighted grand ballroom she enters and passes the staff polishing silverware, glassware, and goes over to the staff fan folding the 450 napkins to be placed on the table for the evening.
Me: Can i grab 42 napkins?
Staff: Yeah lady.
2 water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with ten rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks later it is time for cocktail hour!
Unfamiliar.
Walking into a banquet room wearing a navy blue dress with a cream colored lace sash sitting at a table of ten with familiar and unfamiliar faces. The room is already set with silver chargers, silverware, glassware, baby clue napkins, with mason jars full of daisies and I didn't set a thing. I sit down at table 9 with my fellow table 9 people. The DJ then cuts the music to let us know the bride and groom will be entering shortly so if we could all sit down. Everyone sits. The Bride and Groom are then introduced and after the rumble of applause settles and best man and maid of honor give their toasts. In my mind I feel as if I need to get moving because its 15 min call and salads are going to be served shortly, but then i remember I'm a guest.
Sometimes when you do the same thing everyday it is like looking through a window pane and seeing what life is like through other people sitting around a table. How you are really not like them.
Familiar.
It’s 2:25pm a group of people all in black punch in their own personal code. Click click click click enter. They go over to the man who wears the blue tie and listen to direction.
Ray: You are on kitchen. The party count is 450. We need two water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with 10 rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks put in the freezer.
Me: Okay Ray-ray.
As you walk through the kitchen it is a bunch of cheerful hellos, calm hellos almost too calm. A storm is coming. after walking through the kitchen its two flights of stairs to a room with rolling containers of different size and shape dishes, chaffers, burners, serving utensils, and bread baskets. 1,2,3,4…..42 I try my best to stack them into my arms.
Into the elevator I go. Ping! the old elevator made it down to the first floor. Now the balancing act of making it past the dish line, and around the bustle of the kitchen begins! Will she make it she does!
Kick! into a dark vestibule she goes. Kick! Into the lighted grand ballroom she enters and passes the staff polishing silverware, glassware, and goes over to the staff fan folding the 450 napkins to be placed on the table for the evening.
Me: Can i grab 42 napkins?
Staff: Yeah lady.
2 water cambros, 500 butters, 42 bread baskets with ten rolls each, 84 creamers, lemons cut, 4 tea boxes, and 500 salad forks later it is time for cocktail hour!
Unfamiliar.
Walking into a banquet room wearing a navy blue dress with a cream colored lace sash sitting at a table of ten with familiar and unfamiliar faces. The room is already set with silver chargers, silverware, glassware, baby clue napkins, with mason jars full of daisies and I didn't set a thing. I sit down at table 9 with my fellow table 9 people. The DJ then cuts the music to let us know the bride and groom will be entering shortly so if we could all sit down. Everyone sits. The Bride and Groom are then introduced and after the rumble of applause settles and best man and maid of honor give their toasts. In my mind I feel as if I need to get moving because its 15 min call and salads are going to be served shortly, but then i remember I'm a guest.