Its a Busy Saturday Night....
and i have a 11 top table (thats 11 people at a hibachi grill) ontop of another 2 busy tables full of nightime celebrations, dates, and birthdays.
the 11 top table is a nice table full of mid twenties drinkers which is $ in my eyes. they are all great customers except for one who begins his downhill slope with one question.
"is it bad luck to pour your own sake?" a guy in his mid twenties ask
I know what is coming if i say yes it is bad luck to pour your sake... he'll ask me to pour each and ever shot that comes out of his ceramic sake dispenser for him. Hes at a busy table with 10 of his other friends who all want drinks so the answer has to be a resounding no! so i make up a response.
"no but in Osaka where my family is from its tradition to pour each other our sake to promote charity towards each other"
generally i let the pouring of sake go to the customer themselves because a order of sake comes with 2 shot glasses at least... naturally because you may wish to share a shot with your friends your sitting with.
"no, i think its bad luck"
shit goddamn i say to myself... even if my answer was a bulshit response there was no way he could've known it was a lie
"Are you superstitious sir?" i ask..prodding at his intentions..
"no i was just wondering"
whew i dodged a bullet on this one... or so i thought
"can you pour me my sake?"
"sure no problem sir"
curse the person who said the customer is always right. I pour the man his first shot of sake and get on my way to the complex drink orders that the rest of his friends want and hastily run to setup their soups and salads. each time i show my face to the table the man asks me to pour him his sake sometimes interrupting me as i am taking a drink order from his own friend.
rude bastard, it would've understood his asking me to pour his sake if he had manners but he just seems to be a asshole all around.
after 2 orders of sake(each serving a godforsaken 8 shots at least) he ask for his 3rd and final large order of sake.
now at his point i'm busy taking on another complex table of drinkers and picky food eaters while i get request for the table's check to be seperated 11 ways to sunday.
"this saturday night won't end" I say to myself
I print out the checks and begin to take the drink orders for my next table when i can see the sake guy eyeballing me while his friends are all finishing up their meals.
"save us both some time man and pour your own freaking sake" i whisper to myself but i know this guy is already drunk and he definately wants me to pour his next 8 shots like i did the last 16.... I run my orders through the system and grab 6 more sake shot glasses and hastinly walk over to my sake guy.
I place all the shot glasses on the table and pour his whole order of sake out into all 8 shot glasses in front of him. he looks at me surprized as with eyes that say "you think i'm going to drink all 8 at once??" He's througholy drunk and his friends are all in their own rowdy end of night conversations.
now don't take me for a bad waiter for doing that, everyone did pay their checks and tip decently. its just the fact that this guy wanted to waste my precious time pouring him shots while i have other more decent human beings to serve... and i did technically pour all his shots of sake... just not at his beck and call.
The man hastily downs shot after shot of sake over a period of no more than 10 minutes and by now is either DUI prone or taking a cab.
"arigato have a great night" i say to the group as they walk up the large half spiral staircase up to world and pour out into the noisey streets of downtown.
i wouldn't have been so angry if it wasnt for his attitude that screamed. pour my sake for me you servant. pour each and every single o-n-e.
back to the question of that day.
"is it bad luck to pour your own sake into the shot glass?"
the answer is
"who the f-u-c-k cares! but it is bad luck if your asking me to pour each and every single shot of sake for you but in Osaka..."
...shot pours you.
Arigato
-Waiter
what is the meaning of pour your sake?
ReplyDeletei am doing a translation assignment. and this sentence is "Her delicate grace as she pours your sake", She refers to hostess. and i am confused about it.
ReplyDeleteMen are the ones who create evil on Earth. It is the choices they make which enslave their souls to hell.
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why you are continually reincarnated. Welcome to the Matrix.
7 billion in 2011. Only 1 billion in 1800 and 2 billion in 1900.
Population explosion is a clue::::The gods are sending everyone back for The End.
There must be some purgatory-like place. Or individual. Like an animal.
Now the gods have sent everyone back to try for one final time to fix their problems and ascend into heaven. Avoiding an animal would have been a big positive because those thrust into this decayed enviornment have less of a chance than those who enjoyed the god's generosity of a slowly decaying enviornment with frightening clues, like the Depression, World at War, the Holocaust, etc.
Anything that can get the poeple frightened and praying is a good. thing. Contentment never motivated anyone.
As we approach the Apocalypse the gods are removing "wrath of god" material from xtian dogma.
As we see wickedness spread throughout the country, like preditory behavior, godlessness, social changes, etc, using cable TV and the spread of "Californication" as justification, they changed xtianity, appropriatly with Catholicism first.
xtianity has changed radically in the 20th century, and everyone should be mindful of the way it was, because the people are in a process of slipping out of god's favor into a state of Damnation, from which the vast majority will never survive.
They used to scare people and make them too afraid to make mistakes. Now people aren't afraid of anything and don't think twice about doing something wicked and evil which will hurt their chances.
Good god says a ceiling on time for everyone (see below). Evil god still gives hope for immortality to people who subscribed to preditory behavior:::Immortality if you are right versus a couple centuries partying at best even if you change now.
Due to institutional evil the closer we get to The End the more evil everyone incurrs (with individual variation due to behavior) which limits the time for everyone.
Probably the children who fix their problems and ascend into heaven as well. Experiencing the evil of modern life in the 20th century costed them, for which limits are placed. They are not the same as their innocent peasantry ancestors from the Old World.
You people have fucked up bad by not getting out before the 20th century.
Just because the gods have to break some eggs doesn't mean they are evil. As management there are hard decisions that must be made. But they used this omelette and sold it to people as temptation, who went out and did things they shouldn't have done thinking being preditory was the way to "earn" their way into heaven.
Employment charity:::Was W able to do his job as President?
I suspect there are many frat-boy types who couldn't or wouldn't study nor do the work necessary so they gained this "benefit" telepathically. This could have been extended to their professional life as well::In most of these cases they don't have what it takes to do their jobs. It is temptation which buys their confidence for life, ensuring no progress is made.
I think employment charity is FAR more common than people may believe.
Another example how they tempted people in this manner is the procurement of sexual relations.
Keep raping these poor girls. You're going to end up as one in your next life.
Another feature which the Gods offer as a clue is very foreboading and ominous. Mt. Zion is a mountain to the north of Diablo (the eye of The Beast) and one which has a working quarry at its base. Consistant with the decay we experience in society, Mt. Zion is being eaten away, slowly stripped of its resources, until one day paradise will be gone forever.
If people only understood the importance of good parents. You won't be going anywhere without them. And it won't happen unless you are one first.
To pour own own sake means you are either lonely or to lesser degree an outcast. If you drink in a public place and cannot get someone to pour your drink you might be a outcast- if you drink alone at home, you might be lonely. If it keeps up- those chances only get higher.
ReplyDeleteBut it is easier to generalize that all as "bad luck"