Photo by Parker Galloway
Yesterday at one of my jobs, we were talking about guests watering down drinks after they’ve received them
That Mai Thai was just too much
They poured half of it out and replaced it with soda water
Some guests are young
Some guests don’t know what they like nor how to drink what they think they like
It’s a metaphor for how they treat each other
They do not know what they are doing but instead of accepting that and moving forward with that awareness
They think they are grown
They think they are only worth the price tag of “what they’re good at”
I didn’t know
Back in the day
When I ordered a whiskey sour at every bar, that I had terrible taste
It wasn’t until I worked at Lost Lake in Chicago that I comprehended what I was missing out on
This isn’t just a piece about your drink order
This is a piece about life that I’m writing at 7 in the morning from the front desk of my other job
Things would all work out better for all of us if we just admitted we are no authority on anything
That one of us isn’t always right
That both of us
In any relational connection are probably wrong most of the time
Instead of just ordering what we think we like, why don’t we just ask our server for what they’d recommend
So that we may try something new and expand our awareness of what’s out there
Why don’t we just be more curious instead of trying to look smarter and fool
No one
When did we all collectively decide it wasn’t cool to learn our entire lives
When did we settle on having horrible taste and remaining ignorant
As the most common
Status symbol
While the whole staff makes fun of your ass in the back