>On my first day of waitressing I dropped blueberry pancakes on a customer by accident. The gentleman's face almost turned blue. He was so angry but he stayed. When he left, he dropped a tip large enough to pay 1/4 of my rent on the table (maybe he thought I was going to be fired :o) The customers from Europe were interesting to have for discourse, but no one wanted them in their section, because they always either didn't leave a tip at all, or computed it to exactly 15%.

I thought I was only one around here who did such gig in the past {g} I nearly changed career back then. At the time I was making
more at my part time waitering gig in the evening, then full time programming job during the day... It might sound strange, but I LOVED THAT JOB !!! Then things started improving financially at my computer jobs and I stayed forever locked in worse profession of all times. {g}

But I do keep my hopes! I am going to run happy restaurant one day ! :)