Lunch Rush- You just have to keep doing what you have been training to do and try not to fuck up too majorly.

I have this theory that everything happens all at once. If you get bad news it will come with a bunch of other annoying bad news, which you will later find out was a result of some mix up and not actaully the end of the world looming ever nearer.

It is like the lunch rush, you get to work and it is not busy at all, at maximum one, maybe two, people come in. In any case, it is nothing you can't handle while still having some time to twiddle your thumbs a little. You may even be thinking, "come on give me something to test these skills out on." Then lunch time rolls around, and all of a sudden there are too many people to serve! Pretty much every table in the whole place is full, the glasses run out, the dishes run out, there is never enough time to pick up all the drity dishes when people are done with them, and sometimes you clear a table that you didn't even need to clear yet! It seems just a little chaotic.
When it is all said and done, even though you may think that you didn't do that great a job, most of the customers leave smiling. The restaurant is empty again and you are left to clear the mess that the masses have left behind. As you dust off the bread crumbs from the tables you realize that the sky didn't collapse, the store didn't explode and, even though some people had to wait a while for their water and ask you twice for their bread, at the end of the day you still get paid and they will probably be back to the restaurant another day and you will have to serve them again.

It's even weirder when you consider the some days at a restaurant or store or anyplace can be dead with barely any customers and other days it seems like everyone that passes by, usually without stopping, wants to come in and try the lunch buffet that really is available EVERYDAY of the week.

I guess the more life I live the more I realize that things come in waves and you just have to ride it out when things get rough, don't lose your compass, and when it is all over you will still be you and the world will go back to ticking away as it always has, normal...and your regulars will come in like they always do.

It is kinda like a test. Do you really want this job? Than you keep going. Do you really want this degree? Than you keep going even when all your papers are due the same day, your cat died and you lose your notes a week before the exam. Do you really want this person? Than you remember that when everyone else that usually walks by without stopping decides to make themselves available to convince you otherwise. Anyways, just some food for thought (haha food get it ;).