The Coffee Cup 01
Just before the summer of 1977, I was hired as a busboy at a local hotel’s restaurant. The hotel was only three years old and had been built on the site of another hotel that had burned down many years before. The hotel had a creek that ran through the property. This town at one time had been a stopping point for people traveling west through Texas. It was fairy common for travelers to stop at this creek in the 1800’s, and the town had been established due to this.
I first was assigned to the evening dinner shift as I still was in school. When school was let out for the summer, I moved to the far more hectic morning breakfast shift. The girl who opened the restaurant quit abruptly one morning (she literally ran out yelling that she quit and was gone before anyone else arrived) so I was assigned to open the restaurant. This necessitated me arriving at about 5:30 in the morning to get the dining room set up and ready for the breakfast rush before the restaurant opened at 7:00. The rest of the dining room staff showed up at around 6:00.
神秘的咖啡杯 01
那是1977年的事了,快到夏天了,我在當(dāng)?shù)氐囊患揖频甑牟宛^里找到了一份工作.這家酒店才開(kāi)業(yè)三年,是在一家很多年前被燒毀的酒店的原址上建造起來(lái)的.一條小河流經(jīng)整座酒店.我所在的這個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)曾經(jīng)一度是一個(gè)??空?很多旅游者在向西穿越德州的路上都會(huì)在這停一停.在19世紀(jì),對(duì)于旅行者來(lái)說(shuō)在那條小河邊休息整頓是很普遍的,正因?yàn)槿绱?才有了這個(gè)小鎮(zhèn).
因?yàn)楫?dāng)時(shí)我還是個(gè)學(xué)生,所以我一開(kāi)始先被派去上晚班.學(xué)校放了暑假后,我就要上早班了,和晚班相比,早飯緊張忙碌的多.一天早上,負(fù)責(zé)開(kāi)門(mén)的女孩突然辭職人(事實(shí)上她是尖叫著跑出飯店,說(shuō)要辭職.在大家都要沒(méi)到之前她要走了),所以就由我來(lái)負(fù)責(zé)開(kāi)門(mén).這樣,我就得早上五點(diǎn)半就到飯店,在餐廳七點(diǎn)正式開(kāi)放前,把餐廳整理好,為一會(huì)早餐時(shí)間的忙碌做好準(zhǔn)備.