Wednesday
Nov072007
Waterboy
Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 10:56AM
There's this Chinese place I like to eat at near our apartment. Since we moved back to GR, I've been there once with Brad and twice with Robin. Best sesame chicken around by the way. The wait staff at this place are all really attentive, which is great. Except when they're a little too attentive.
Like when they refill your water all. the. damn. time. Now, I definitely prefer this quirk over the one where your server leaves you sucking the condensation off the ice in your empty glass for the majority of your meal. But this one guy at the Chinese place, I swear his only job is wait for people to take a sip of their water. Then he runs over and promptly refills what you've displaced.
The other night when Robin and I were having dinner, Waterboy kept distracting me from a very important conversation we were having. Everytime he refilled my glass, I couldn't help but laugh. Once when he came over to rescue Robin from near drought, I took a sip and held onto my glass, wondering what he would do. I assumed, since my water was still nearly full, that he would move on and wait until I took my next sip. No. Instead he lingered just long enough for me to feel uncomfortable and set my glass down. Then he literally dribbled some water into my glass. A dribble. A drop. That's all I needed to replenish what I had sipped, but by god, Waterboy wasn't going to let me sit there with anything but a full glass. Never!
Even when we had finished eating and were gathering our things to leave, Waterboy noticed that somehow between putting on our coats and reaching for our purses, we had managed to drink some water. And even though we were about to leave, we may just decide we need a gulp for the road. Waterboy was there.
I felt like I was in an episode of Seinfeld. But as funny and ridiculous as it was, I was happy to know that at least in this restaurant, my glass would never go empty.
Like when they refill your water all. the. damn. time. Now, I definitely prefer this quirk over the one where your server leaves you sucking the condensation off the ice in your empty glass for the majority of your meal. But this one guy at the Chinese place, I swear his only job is wait for people to take a sip of their water. Then he runs over and promptly refills what you've displaced.
The other night when Robin and I were having dinner, Waterboy kept distracting me from a very important conversation we were having. Everytime he refilled my glass, I couldn't help but laugh. Once when he came over to rescue Robin from near drought, I took a sip and held onto my glass, wondering what he would do. I assumed, since my water was still nearly full, that he would move on and wait until I took my next sip. No. Instead he lingered just long enough for me to feel uncomfortable and set my glass down. Then he literally dribbled some water into my glass. A dribble. A drop. That's all I needed to replenish what I had sipped, but by god, Waterboy wasn't going to let me sit there with anything but a full glass. Never!
Even when we had finished eating and were gathering our things to leave, Waterboy noticed that somehow between putting on our coats and reaching for our purses, we had managed to drink some water. And even though we were about to leave, we may just decide we need a gulp for the road. Waterboy was there.
I felt like I was in an episode of Seinfeld. But as funny and ridiculous as it was, I was happy to know that at least in this restaurant, my glass would never go empty.
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Reader Comments (3)
That's hilarious! I think I've been to a couple places like that here in LA.
hee hee ... i have experienced waterboy, lol ...
I love it! Very funny and sesame chicken sounds delicious.