Z GIRL wrote:
> "Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
> news:KvOfb.688791$uu5.112026@sccrnsc04...
>
>>It happened again tonight. We ate the first part of our meal in
>>relative silence since we don't like to talk much as we eat. As we were
>>slowing down, we started talking more. Only when we're in the middle of
>>spirited conversation does the waiter or waitress come over to interupt
>>to ask if everything is alright. I have to take my attention away from
>>my dining companions to pay attention to her to reassure her that
>>everything is fine. (Or it was fine until I was interrupted.)
>>
>>I was a waitress. I'm trying to be sympathetic to someone who has a
>>rough job, but it is getting harder. Is it my imagination, or is it
>>rude to walk straight up to people in the middle of conversation to
>>interrupt them with some trivial question? Surely if there were
>>something wrong, wouldn't that be obvious by the fact that I was looking
>>around for the server trying to catch their eye?
>>
>>Is there a solution? May I explain that I'm in the middle of a
>>conversation and don't wish to be interrupted? Would that do any good?
>> I never take my irritation out on the servers' tip because even I'm
>>not that cantankerous and because I know the servers would have no way
>>of making the connection between their interruption and the lower tip.
>>
>>--Lia


What? You must have the attention span of a hand ball!

Who the hell cares if someone is going to ask me if things are all
right; just say yes, thank you,and on with your conversation--providing
your short term memory isn't shot.

And the question is not trivial. He/She is making sure he/she gives you
A1 service, so that you can be satisfied and tip he/she good.

Geez! I call your problem, drowning in a glass of water.

Richard


--
"..A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava
beans and a nice chianti..."

Hannibal "The Cannibal"

Silence Of The Lambs 1991