How not to piss off the waitress pt 2

Hello people of the internet,

It could be middle of October looking at the weather outside not August. The perks of living in Britain where we have three weeks of summer and then rain for the rest of the year. Of course the weather will dramatically improve on the days where I have to go to work because why would it not stay constant.

So over the past few weeks the customers have been oh so delightful and seem to forget that the waitresses are handling their food and therefore it would be very easy poison you if we so wished. So the other day, when the weather was glorious obviously, we had a coach load of visitors in and about double the normal level of public visitors too. Therefore after a couple hours there wasn't a lot of food left as we operate as a buffet style system and due to the sheer volume of people who wanted lunch. 

Therefore when a women came in and asked about three quiche and salad, which was about the only thing we had left, I was only too happy to help. However after about thirty seconds it became clear she was going to be picky,

Customer: "Is that all the salad you've got left?"

Me: "Well we've got some more green in the back and this little bit of pasta left if you'd like"
Customer: "So what would you do for quiche and three salads?"
Me: "We'd give you more of two salads to make up for not having the third"
Customer: "Well that wouldn't be quiche and three salads then would it"

This customer then decided to send me off to make up a different lunch and three minutes later had changed her mind. I don't understand why the waitresses get all the crap about the food running out or not being hot/cold enough. It's not like we actually make the food, we put it on a plate and bring it to you.  Which is really not a position you want to be in if you're going to make rude comments or be particularly fussy about it. Obviously if the woman had just shown up and asked these questions without the attitude, I'm aware I'm making her sound like a thirteen year old girl, the situation would have been much calmer. But she had been standing in a que for several minutes, which probably accounts for her attitude. She had seen me make up very similar plates.

When eating out be nice to the waitresses they are the last person to come in contact with your food before you eat it.


Rhona x

The Name

Hello People of the Internet
Long time not writey, again. One day I'm sure I'll get the hang of writing on here regularly, though not sure that'll be likely in the near future. Reliability isn't one of my strongest traits but all we can do is work on that, si?

This time I thought I'd explain the name of my blog and now I've realized exactly how short that story is I may add some other odd ramblings on the end. In March 2010, I think, I received my first pump which was a Medtronic. I got to choose a colour, which for a thirteen year old is an incredibly exciting thing. So I chose purple which was and still is my favourite colour. Now the simplest way to explain the use of a pump to myself and my friends was that it was like a pancreas. The thing that was wrong with my pancreas was "fixed" by the pump. One of my friends first reactions was "so you've got a purple pancreas?" which is where the name came from.

A couple of years later I got an "upgrade" to the accu-chek pump which I do prefer as it has many more useful features such as being waterproof, except when being dropped at the bottom of a lake, but it's black. My thirteen year old self is still upset about the fact that I didn't get to choose a nice colour. You can get skins which are basically stickers on the pump and they do make it look really cool. However the amount of time i spend in the sea means that they get ruined fairly quickly and so I haven't got anymore which sucks. 

Still wasn't very long in the end!

Rhona x