Weekend from Hell ending on good note.

[zen_monk]

The weekend from Hell is over. There were many things I've learned from the past four days of non-stop waitress-work. Due to some behind-the-scene conflict which ultimately led to FOUR waitstaffers leaving because one of them committed embezzlement by stealing food for her friends- and not even close friends, those are douchebag customer people who always seem to expect favors from us, those stupid freeloaders.

So, the result was that I am the only senior waitress in the restaurant and I had to train three new minions. I've never really held a leadership position before, at least one where so much responsibility rides on me. Being a shift leader at Cold Stone's probably doesn't really count. I am also the only one aside from the store-owner who knew how to close the cash register, so.... I'm currently very important.

I still shake my fist at those beloved co-owners,  that one girl who was rightfully terminated the only one not beloved by me, who left me with such responsibilities.

The week ended on an important moment, which I think should be written so that I can look back on it in reflection. It was at work when my boss turned the tv onto the news and that everyone in the restaurant knew that Osama Bin Laden is killed in Pakistan.

The whole thing with the war and the aftermath of 9/11, I guess I was mostly apathetic about it and that I just focused on my own little world with the news reports and the ongoing conflicts being outside of my focus. But this is big. I was a little 11 year old when 9/11 happened, so my sphere of understanding the ongoing conflict was kind of limited. My peers and I have just grown up knowing about the war and hearing about the conflict in the Middle East with some understanding, and it's only towards the end of high school and college that we really started to ask questions about it.

To me, Osama bin Laden was some kind of abstract Bad Guy that only exists in TV. I really did think that he would live forever or something like that. So to find such significant development going on, to find that like some sort of movie synopsis played out, vengeance has been exacted by the people most affected by the villain. If bin Laden were to ever die, which logically he should eventually, I would expect natural causes or illness. So to really have one of the direct reasons for being in this war fully accomplished, was something that was hard to wrap my mind around.

So future-me, forgive my rambly post. So I will end it with: USA! USA! USA! :D