When Our 'HUMAN-side' Is Not a 'Big Ask'

 

Time for light exchanges dude!  So, what are some tricks used by waiters that most people never notice?  A businessman was dining at a new restaurant and knocked his spoon off the table.

He was wondering whether to pick it up himself or leave it, when seconds later a waiter appeared at his side. In what seemed like one movement, the waiter stooped to pick up the dropped spoon, and placed another spoon on the table.

“How did you manage that? How did you know I would drop a spoon?” the businessman asked.

The waiter smirked and said, “Sir, we've been trained in efficiency and done many studies. The most common dropped utensil is a spoon, so we keep a spare up here,” as he patted his top pocket.

“Amazing” said the businessman, whose gaze dropped from the top pocket, to the waiter's fly, where a length of string was hanging. He continued, “But did you know you have some string hanging from your fly?”

The waiter smirked again, “Sir, in our endeavours to be most efficient, we seek to minimise our time away from the restaurant, so if we need to urinate, we can speed things up by not having to wash our hands, by not touching … those parts. We use the string for that purpose.

The businessman nodded as he considered this, then looked puzzled, then asked “I can see how the string helps in … pulling it out. But how do you … put it back in, without touching it?”

The waiter proudly stated “Sir, yet more efficiency. We use that same spoon that we keep in our top pocket, and is now on your table!”

On a different note, this reminds me of that subtle reminder to us all to be NICE to all.  BUT if you handpick as to WHICH ones should you prioritize, here you go.  Of all the service providers, let us be NICE [and NEVER be RUDE]  to ALL BUT most especially to food attendants and health care service providers.  Let us NOT forget that at top of the totem pole is our HEALTH followed by our FOOD intake

Sadly, WHILE these are outliers, there were reported incidents when a hospital patient eventually got injected NOT with the correct prescribed injectible.  WHILE that incident DIDN'T cause the tragic death of that patient, can we imagine the worst things happening if one day, just because we offended a health care frontline service provider, they caused something more serious OR worst, tragic to the hospital patient.  Another incident was at a restaurant WHEN a guest somehow became emotional, ending up to offend the restaurant personnel.  Sadly, that incident ended awry because the restaurant guest ended up experiencing some symptoms of possible food poisoning BUT WHICH CAN'T be substantiated that time BUT when the restaurant guest was rushed to the nearest hospital, it was unfortunate that he was diagnosed with food poisoning although there was NO direct evidence to confirm with finality the complicity of the restaurant personnel.  Long story short, maybe this snafu could have been avoided in the very first place😌😌😌

Our takeaway:  Regardless of our standing in society, WHETHER you're at the C-Suite level OR a typical rank & file personnel, there is a commonality we share and that's the fact that we are all human, living our own separate lives, grinding through every day with UPs and DOWNs much as we want to put up the happy and funny face [and aura] of a clown OR entertainer, we humans we have our unique vulnerabilities and as much as we want to put up a HAPPY FACE when we go on with our daily schedules, let us manifest that empathy IF and WHEN circumstances will call for it.  After all, we're all humans, and we got to co-exist BUT stretching a bit to be more mindful of folks around us WON'T be too much to ask for, right dude???  When Our 'HUMAN-side'  Is Not a 'Big Ask'