“Hello and welcome,” I
say to my new two top. “Would either of you care for a cocktail?”
“I think we’ll just
start off with some water,” the husband, a bald
man in a open collared silk shirt, replies. “Maybe we’ll have wine with
dinner.”
“Very good sir,” I
reply. “Might I interest you in a bottle of Pellegrino or Panna this
evening?”
“You don’t have Perrier
do you?”
“I’m afraid not,” I say.
“But we do have good old Source Municipal.”
“What’s Source Municipal?”
the man’s wife asks.
“The waiter’s being funny,
Alice,” the man replies. “He’s talking about tap water.”
“Oh that’s cute!’ the wife
says. “Source Municipal! You make it sound like it comes from
France.”
“Thanks madam.”
“Some tap water will be fine
waiter,” the man says.
“Very good, sir.”
I get a busboy to deliver the water, tell the couple the
specials,
serve them, and hustle them out the door in under sixty minutes. I
shouldn’t have been so eager to turn and burn, however. The couple that
slides into the newly vacated seats are regulars – regular assholes
that is. The moment their asses hit the seats their heads start
swiveling Exorcist like on their necks - looking for me. (cont)
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