Zero?

I had a couple of -firsts- last night. Quite interesting, I must say. 

I got to work around 4. It's really windy and overcast. We had a storm the night before that was much more intense than anything Fay ever thought about producing here. I have huge picture windows in my room so I could really watch the lightning. Anyway, I digress. I get there and we have little cubby holes that our pagers are put in for when food is ready and any cash tips that we don't have time to wait on the cashier for. They also put our paychecks in there. We get payed every week. I open my check and it's a big fat triple zero. $0.00 I thought that was the coolest thing ever. It's even signed! I'm totally keeping it. I actually made around $50 but it was all taken for taxes. Hilarity.

Another first for me: Since it was sssoo slow I had lots of time to baby my tables. This one couple was so nice and I brought them extra bread and was talking to them about moving here from Tennessee. They went on and on about how good the food was. They even ended up buying T-shirts from this place. Their bill came to around $90 with the T-shirts included. The dude left me a $3 tip. I've been stiffed on tips before but never like that. I wasn't mad though, well...yeah I was for a few seconds but then I got over it. What can you do?

And the last first (hehe): I got a $5 tip in change. And we aren't talking quarters, oh no. There were only 2 quarters in the whole bunch. I'm talking pennies, nickels, and dimes!! Everyone except me got a -REAL- kick out of that one! 

So today I'm job hunting. With school starting that place is getting so slow and they are cutting hours. I don't know if I'm going to work in another restaurant. This time of year isn't good for it, from what I hear. I would like to though, I really really love it. We'll see. 

Oh yeah, keep your eyes out for Gustav. Another reason the beaches are becoming deserted.