My Lovely Friend: Dish Room

I am now covered in milk, syrup, and Lord knows what else. I also have not sat down for 4 hours, and am wet from head to toe. Sounds like I've been at an amusement park, doesn't it? A very, very dirty amusement park...

Well I wasn't. Nope, I was working. In the cafeteria. In the dish room. You ever heard the term "God help the outcasts"? I say "God help the dish room workers". Let me explain: where I work, you get assigned to a station for your shifts, and you work that same station every time you have that shift. I work on commons on Mondays, which means that I am supposed to go around and clean the tables, change the drink machines, refill the cup and tray stacks; you know, all that fun stuff. So I was doing commons, but one thing you learn about commons is that you never do commons. Sound weird? It's like this: they kinda take everyone from commons and put them at other stations that need people (because, let's face it, do we really need 5 people fighting to clean the same table every Tuesday? Probably not). And as luck would have it, they sent me to the stomach of the dragon, the epitome of all sucky stations, the place no one wants to be, and we all know it. Dish. Room.

Yes, I am being dramatic. It actually isn't all that bad. Really, it's sort of fun being splashed with milky, sticky, strange-colored liquids and picking up rolls of napkins with mysterious squishy substances in them. Oh it's a blast! The one thing that did make it sort of fun though was the fact that I had great people to work with; it was almost like a party, where everyone gets dirty forks as a party favor and can't leave until their shift is done. But I would seriously rather work dish than commons any day. At least I had things to do.

Maybe I should keep a running update on my dish room adventures, if I ever venture back there again (which I'm sure I will have to at some point). I could call it "Dish Disasters" or "Lovely, Lovely Dish". Eh, I'll think about it. For now, I must rest. Cleaning like that is hard work, my friends.

I will keep you posted! Nighty night all.