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Thursday, 05 November 2009

Unfinished Poetry

I will be able to post a longer post tomorrow....I know it has been awhile. But here is a half finished poem I began today. Of course I lost my flow lol I got interupted in the middle of it for awhile and its not always so easy to just pick it back up so its not finished just yet!
Farther than my eyes can see
Farther than my arms can reach
Counting long moments
Till you are back to me
Sounds of your voice
Your laugh on the line
Sustaining me onward
Till sweet kisses are mine
All understood
This abscense in mind
Rewards to reap
All in good time
Loving prayers tenderly sent
Protection and guidance
Always in my mind
Smiles I still often see
Dreaming you are close to me
A life to build
A foundation to set
Then again our hands to mesh
Your eyes within my soul
Love with space has surely grown
All such tender passions
I know you still feel
making your presence
In mind oh so real
Even apart
You are still here
Never to leave never shall I fear
This is but a space in time
A small sacrificial moment
An inch in our time
Have cheer love
All is well

Tuesday, 08 September 2009

The Fall of Jaws

I know it's been a pretty minute since I've last written. But I promise to try and make this entry interesting.
The other day I did in fact witness the fall of jaws..or rather the tackling of! We had another bachelor party , not all suprising on duval street. And once again they tried to come up with an awesome gimmick for the groom. Instead of a giant hot dog or a blow up male genitalia balloon 6 feet tall the groom decided to vie for a coconut bra, a speedo, and a red petticoat. After arriving he spent the next 15 minutes with his head resting on the table completely already trashed at 2 in the afternoon. At one moment they stole my host stand trashcan to take him out back to toss his cookies. After his burger he felt much better and they continued with festivities. Of course until the guy from guy harveys dresssed up like a shark came walking up the street. Then some of the buddies egged their drunk bachelor up offering him 5 dollars to "get him". So he ran out of the restaurant in his colorful outfit and jumped on teh sharks back knocking him to the ground. He then quickly ran back into the restaurant leaving us in disbelief. The shark continued to walk away until eye witnesses steered him back to us insisting we call the cops. At this point the shark lost his head and was revealed as one of key wests many hobos!!! Im sure many parents were then frightened to find out he had been hugging their children! My manager just happened to be right there and called the cops for the rioters. One very persistant woman kept yelling at the other guys that 911 should be called. We told her we were calling the non emergency number at that time. She then went to tell his friends they would be responsible for the tear in the shark costume as well as any medical treatment he would need for his skinned knee!! She was quite hillarious i will admit. She kept telling our manager he needed to hold their credit card (which we could not do legally and thus did not hold it) as his friends and him ran off the back entrance and up the street. The cops showed up about 15 min later down the street and the lady and other onlookers went to meet him and file the claim. We really don't know what they did or could do at that point. Made our day quite interesting though!!!

Sunday, 02 August 2009

Host Stand Perplexities

When I first started at Disney in 2005 they joked that you would quite often be asked " What time is the 4 o clock parade?" by many guests.. and you laugh and are like wow that person is stupid. Then you find out how many people really do ask that question. Its astonishing..People ask some of the silliest questions.
Now at HRC I get many similar though not quite as stupid questions. Quite often people don't even stop at the host stand and barrel past us in an attempt to go seat themselves. They honestly have no idea they are suppose to be seated by a host..How many nice sit down restraunts do you go to where there isn't a host? Its part of our culture in the service industry and no ones aware of it. We're asked by 9 out of 10 tables if we have AC inside the restaurant. Well we are in Florida, it's summer, I think we just might have AC. Could you imagine trying to eat in a restaurant if we didn't? Also, the host stand is right next to our retail stand/store. And people will walk right past it too looking for it. Or ask us where it is in which we point left and they say " OHHH" and blush. Today I had a table ask me if I live here. Was tempted to tell them I fly into Key West every morning for work.
Also it suprises me how many people after 4 years of high school learning over and over how to fill out an application in 20 different classes how many people still have no idea. How many people in their school history will circle that the last grade they attended was 12 and under school name address phone number will leave it blank. At least put the school name and town...something. Ive seen an application where every job the guy listed reasons for leaving were " It didn't work out" and he had only spent a short time at each of them. What do you think that's going to say about you? My favorite though is where it asks what do you consider a success , verbatim this is what it said " When the guest eats it and savers the teast in his moth." They provide such quality entertainment though!

Monday, 20 July 2009

Silver Mimes

Todays topic is the newest freak show roaming Duval Street. We now have a couple walking around completely painted silver. But they didn't just stop there. She is dressed like a chinese ancient warrior and him like a king. They are also pushing a spray painted baby stroller with a spray painted baby doll and plastic alligators (all silver as well). They went all out, which I totally appreciate. Much better than the man and woman with the yellow retarded chain who only put out minimal effort to make a few extra bucks. The only part I found disappointing was when the woman explained to a customer of ours they were not statues like the man at Mallory Square , but mimes instead. And as she said this she wasn't signing or miming but speaking orally. Mimes do not talk. They mime! Thats why they are called mimes. Silly Chinese Warrior Woman thing.... Though I do feel like if they are locals or frequent visitors they stole slightly the idea from two gentleman at Mallory Square. For my readers sake, Mallory Square is a big dock in downtown Key West where at night we have a big sunset celebration nightly with vendors and performers. Two of our more famous performers are two gentleman , one paiinted completely gold and one silver, who squeak instead of speaking and pretend to be statues who when you least expect it will move or follow you refusing to speak. They can be quite comical especially if you try walking by without tipping iin which they throw a tissy fit in squeaks and foot stomping. They deserve much more credit for their gimmick I believe. It takes dedication to paint yourself gold competely every night!

We also last night had a family walking around dressed as a family of superheros in red capes and gold headbands. I dont think they got the memo that Fantasy Fest isn't until October!!
I ve talked a lot about gimmick artists here on my blog...what kind of gimmicks would you bring to key west???

Friday, 17 July 2009

Eat n Snarl

So to start I had the worst service I have ever had at a restaurant the other day here in town. Benny and I have been wanting to check out the barbeque place down the street for a while now and decided to go the other day for lunch. In it's defense Eat n Grin has pretty good barbeque. Not anywhere near the best on the island but good. Id suggest Turtle Kraals or Daddy Bones first. But the waitress was a nutjob. She kept getting stressed out and frazzled every five seconds over the stupidest stuff. I felt like I should be apologizing to her and not the other way around. She ran off in the middle of taking our order, ignored her other table and their constant cries for drink refills they werent getting, and forgot to put in another order for another table for about 20 minutes. Just to say the least... we were about five seconds from telling her to forget it and leaving. Sad thing is I have a great patience for servers from being in the service industry myself but she was beyond excuse. I give it a 1 out of 5.

Now as for our trip to Fort Lauderdale the last two days. We had a good time. Drove up with Mom to take her to the airport. Ate some delicious Olive Garden on the way up. It was my second trip but my only one in the last few years. We dropped her off at o dark thirty in the morning at the airport after like 3 hours of sleep at the condo. But we did get a nap afterward before we hit the mall. Had another delicious meal at the cheesecake factory and I must say its becoming a favorite. Got to shop till we dropped though we didnt spend much money... Bought Seminole shirts for the games this fall but that was almost all...also bought the cutest little mermaid key holder!!! Of course I HAD to have it! Drove up A1A and southbeach. Beautiful! Huge beautiful homes and water. It was nice to just take some time on the way. Stopped at Golden Corral. Delicious! Im glad to be home but could have used more vaca time with Benny. Its always nice to take a day or two off and get off the rock!!