I just dribbled coffee all over my book and my leg and...

started laughing.
And, for the record, the coffee dribbled outta the cup, not my mouth.
Anyway, my response was to crack up.
I now know, one way or the other, it's gonna be one of "those" days.

S'okay, though.
Either way.
Leo is off, so I'm safe.

Yes, the Terrorist Cook is off, but then, so is Sweetie, damn it.

He's (Sweetie has) been cooking the last three or so weeks, while people go on vacation. In his hosting place, he keeps sticking this young, nice, really pretty DIPSHIT who, compared to Sweetie, SUCKS at hosting. She triple seats ya, never tells you you've been sat, shit like that. She's a nice girl, but DAMN.
Besides, when Sweetie is out there, I know I don't hafta sweat nuttin', except serving my tables. I make money, I'm totally relaxed, it's just cool as hell when he's running shit.

Yesterday, after nearly three weeks of "Cher, circa 1975" (my name for the hostess chick), I told Sweetie point blank, "I am either gonna kill myself or beat the hell outta somebody else if you don't come back soon, Dude..."

His eyes got all big and he said, "Why? Wassa matter?"

"Nothing against Cher over there, but, maaan, it just sucks without you out there, ya know? She's a nice kid, but, compared to you, she sucks at hosting. I just can't stand much more..." I giggle/pretend cried to him.

He smiled at the real meaning of what I was saying and told me to just hang on, he'd be back soon. The last bastard person is almost done his vacation.

And, speaking of bastards.... as of now, Leo's name may at times also be "TC", as in Terrorist Cook, which I mentioned earlier.

For this story, he is TC.

There's this one other waitress... I'll call her B. That has absolutely nothing to do with her real name, but it has a connection in my head, so it'll be easy to use.

So, B, on her way out the door yesterday, passes me at the smoking area and asked me if I'd heard the latest about TC, who had sunk to an all time low.

Now, B is nice enough, but we're not that close that she volunteers information to me about personal shit, so this musta been bugging her pretty badly...

(Also, not that I wanna make an issue of it, but it is central to this story that you know that she is a big woman. Tall, as well as wide and it drove me nuts when customers thought I was her. I have, in fact, lost weight and that was one of my (unspoken) reasons...)

Anyway, Saturday morning, TC got pissed at her for something- I don't even know what and it matters not anyway- and he called her a fat pig.
To her face.
In front of other people.

That prick.
How fuckin' DARE he?
Jesus.

She said she got so pissed, she cried.
She also said that she now knows she's gotta find another job.
She's been there for a few years, too....

Jesus.

After she left, I was thinking about that some.
I knew from the instant she said it, that if TC ever says anything like that to me, there will not BE enough people there to pull me back through the service window and stop me from walking across the fuckin' grill to kill him, so it kinda unsettled me.
That, and that she'd gone put of her way to make me aware of it.

Nobody else had even mentioned it at that point, so I didn't know what to make of that part.

Then, someone else did ask me if I'd heard about it and also if Sweetie knew about it....
Got me to thinkin'...

Maybe she told me because she hopes it may get passed along....

So, I debated with myself for a while.

I do NOT want/need to get any shit started between me and TC, BUT...
if he goes "unreported" for this, very much like a rapist, it'd be partly my fault for letting it go when, not if, the next woman gets (verbally) raped, kinda.
I also kept thinking of Nazi's and how "they're not here for ME, so I don't care" and where that led... so I did talk to Sweetie.

He was there Saturday, but he'd also "hollered at" (his words) B and he thought he'd been the one who made her cry. He even apologized to her, he said. I told him no, it wasn't him, it was TC and what he'd said. Then, I asked him, "What the hell do I do if he does that to me? I am losing weight, yeah, but that'd be a real sore spot for me right now, still... Do I just call him "bald" back?"

Sweetie grabbed my hand and busted up laughing and said, "Well, yeah. Call him bald. It IS true..."

So, now Sweetie knows.
He knows it wasn't him who made her cry and what it was that did make her cry and....
I doubt anything will be done to/about TC.

Which leads to my next question to Sweetie, the first moment I get where we're both not running around like beheaded chickens...

"Why is that? Whom, exactly, in the scheme of ownership or whathaveyou, is TC, anyway? Why is he allowed to verbally abuse us on a daily basis to begin with, let alone be personally insulting in public like that?"

This I must understand.
It may save a life if I do.

Meantime, it's 6:30am.
I can either end this now, toddle off, and slowly, in a relaxed manner, get ready for work, or I can blather on with suppositions and "solutions" (such as making TC apologize to her as publicly and loudly as he insulted her and having to hug each one of us every day for two reasons... it'd drive him absolutley bonkers and if there was ever ANYBODY in need of hugs, it's TC, the prick...) and then try to get ready in less than a half hour.

Think I'mina shaddap.

Nobody has been able to figure TC out in the 26(!!!!) years he's been there.
I'm gonna do it in less than a year (so far)?
Damn right I am.

I already understand the genesis of his underlying and very much personally denied RAGE and why he makes such a HUGE deal outta every-damned-thing. It has a LOT to do with those 26 years and his life outside of there, what very little there is of that.

Put it this way... Everything had damned well BETTER be a big goddamned deal because it's his WHOLE LIFE, except for his two dogs and that is truly sad if you think about it.
Also, he'd not only deny that if confronted with it, he'd kill ME for knowing it.

But...
I do.

Peace

Posted by: Stevie at 06:57 AM

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