I ended up getting off at about 10, too, so it wasn't too bad. i worked about 4.5 hours. And, yes I was on my feet the whole time up at the front hostess stand, and walking around. That was tiring, but when it was busy I didn't notice. My trainer was really nice; she was actually a high school senior, but had been working at Sophia's for a few months already. It was slow at first, so she just told me about stuff, but as the evening went on, it got busier, and I learned more just by having to actually do it hands-on.
So, I've been describing the shift to people saying that it's like Grey's Anatomy (basically, on that show, they never have a normal patient-broken arm, etc.-it's always some huge extravagant medical issue). what i mean is, at the end of the night, the manager, said to me-"wow you picked some night to train!! hardly any of the stuff that happened tonight is typical!" lots of unusual things happened, i guess. the strange things include: 1) two servers broke glasses -apparently that doesn't' happen much there, 2) normally, a tuesday night is very slow, and i could've been off work at 8:30, but there was a mizzou game, so there was a big rush at 9 pm (two MU players even came for appetizers later!!), 3) a little kid threw up-gross! his dad picked him up and ran him out the front door with a little barfy trail following him-we didnt have to clean it up or anything though :), and 4) this is the big one- I FELL!!! lol yes, i fell on my first night!! lol. i wasn't hurt or anything, but i'm sure people laughed. i just got up and kept going, though, and later thought about how that was probably embarrassing-looking, lol!! as a hostess, i seat people at their table, then i left them at their table, and there was a huge olive oil spill on the floor and i totally went all the way down to my knees!!! i admit, i love watching people fall, lol. oh well, it wasn't too bad :)
So, that's the story so far, look for more, less exciting anecdotes from work hopefully soon!
