Cop Out

I didn't fight Ted.


Argh. And I was all prepared to at least have words with him today. Its just that there were only four waiters at work and so he had an opportunity to talk to all of us, and was doing so in quite a friendly manner. I just couldn't flip out at him while he was being so congenial.

I still am not impressed with him, mind you. The statements he makes expose a pompousness that is so unattractive that I will not sully the sex appeal of the term cocky by applying it to Ted.

Here is a faithful account of his misdeeds of today:

1) He said that Twilight was "one of the most horrible movies ever made." Get over yourself. Twilight is a movie made for teen girls or for people who have enjoyed the book series. It does not claim to be mindblowing or even understandable to people who do not fit into either of those categories. And even then, Twilight far surpassed other film adaptations of "kids books". The last few Harry Potter movies for instance have been legendary for the schizo plots and bad angsty teen acting. By contrast, Twilight was riveting and endearing.

Pshaw. Ted said that the only movies he's ever walked out of were Twilight and Starsky and Hutch. Whatever. I have seen much worse. I mean how can you sit through Anchorman (yes, I know its ragingly popular), which has about as much wit as a 20-second sex joke, and feel compelled to walk out of Starsky and Hutch, which is actually funny.


2) He has worked at the restaurant exactly one and a half weeks and today he tells me "oh yeah, we have been trying to get the music in the Loco dining room to match the music in the Alonso's dining room." We?!?! We who? Him and management? I am so sure. Furthermore that is the oddest statement because Loco plays Mexican music and Alonso's plays slightly passe pop...making them match would entail switching them altogether.

When I asked him about it he said, "you know, we've been trying to find the Alonso's station and start playing it in Loco." First of all, I am fairly positive that the manager/owner does NOT want Loco to be playing pop or it already would be. Second of all, if they did want to play the Alonso's station in Loco the managers could do so easily because they know what station they play in each restaurant and they can simply use the Loco music controller to tune the fuck into the same little numbers that are on the front of the Alonso's music controller.

Lunatic. At this point I am figuring out that half of what he says is a crock of bullshit. "We" my ass.

3)He spoke to me in a very condescending manner about how this is my first job in a restaurant and how he has worked in the industry for years. Good riddance. That should make it embarrassing that I get way more tips that he does. Probably because I am way cuter as a result of not having a chipped tooth!

On the other hand, he does drive a scooter.


I will let this go for now, I suppose. But if he stands in front of my face one more time, I will address that shit immediately.




"I like your hair. It's a little 80's, a little I don't care."
-Beizing