For many years I have supplemented my writing career by waiting tables. It wasn’t always what I wanted to do and there was a time when I was absolutely horrible at waitressing but I prevailed.
For the past year and a half I worked the banquets and weddings out at Saratoga National Golf Club. I have worked a lot of events that were fun, enjoyed working with most of the people I worked with. There are things that I will miss about working there. My co-workers and I certainly had a lot of fun at some of the weddings.
I even had the pleasure/horror of experiencing a BRIDEZILLA!
I thought people made that stuff up but I will never forget that BRIDEZILLA who accused the D.J. in the middle of ballroom in front of all the guests shrieked,” You ruined my wedding!!”
He didn’t. She was pissed that the photographer didn’t get a shot of the father/daughter dance. The photographer was in fact, M.I.A. but that wasn’t the D.J.’s fault.
Anyway, you don’t forget stuff like that. Like the wedding we did recently where the people in attendance were anything but sophisticated. During cocktail hour we actually had one guest that put the bamboo pick that you use to spear hors d’ oeuvres off the tray with behind his ear and every time my co-workers and I would be passing a tray of hors d’ oeuvres he would whip out the bamboo spear from behind his ear and pick the one he wanted. GROSS!!!
Finally, after the third time, my co-workers and I begged our boss to go out there and say something to him. Her reply was, “What do you say to someone like that?”
After some thought, I had to agree, if you are an adult and you behave like this at someone’s wedding and in public anywhere you’re probably a lost cause.
But I would have loved it if she would have gone out there, and told him that there was no toothpick scarcity out at the Golf Club. You can’t make this stuff up.
So, the long and short of this blog post is that this past week I resigned from Saratoga National Golf Club so I can really focus on my writing and my work at the Ballston Journal.