Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Sidewalk chalk vs. The Olive Garden

Ahem...to begin I would just like to say let this be a lesson to The Man, and for those of you who are interested in sticking it to the man it turns out corporations do not support sidewalk chalk in whatever form it may come in. I was an amazing employee of the Logan local Olive Garden going on 3 years (holy goodness) There was lovely people, made very good friends, served a lot of hungry guests.. one day Scotty and I had just got off work early one bright and sunny Friday-we had the whole night a head of us, and we were figuring out what to do. Scotty has this book (love, me) called "This book will Change Your Life- 365 days of Hysterical Living" and on this day he informed me that it was Poetry Day- so we decided we had to incorporate this into our evening. SIDEWALK CHALK. Keep in my mind this is Logan and you often have to be creative. There was no better way to share poetry than to sidewalk chalk around the town. So we had just made our hillarious purchase and we were on our way to spread poetry in Scotty's neck of the woods, and on our way we were passing our place of employment and I may or may not have said, "we have got to chalk to OG!" No hesitation and we were in the parking lot quickly coming up with something hilarious to write. It had to be quick and easy, because it was about 6 o clock on a Friday evening with some guests outside etc. etc. So he decided to write " love your waitor, 15%" and I decided to go with "if you wanted lasagna, we're out" ( just an aside: this reigned very prominently true at this specific establishement and if you need verification of this fact ask Ashley) So we approached the front doors amid about 10-12 guests and quickly began writing. In the mean time, the work brown noser came out and with the best joke he'd ever come up with shared it with us "uh...we've called the cops heh heh" he snickered. Not funny. So we finished our trickery and then booked it to the car. We laughed and laughed and laughed. We were so funny! So...a jazz game and a couple of phone calls from the OG went by, and we decided we would call our manager back. We then were asked to write statements about "the things that happened outside" and were suspended (with pay haha) for the weekend! We made the best of our weekend-who knew how easy it would be to have the weekend off!? Needless to say neither of us have employed at the Olive Garden. And in conclusion a couple things should be pointed out. First the element of sidewalk chalk itself. This is pretty easy to remove, in fact, you can spit on sidewalk chalk and it would come off. I also want to say I realize that perhaps chalking at this time of day may not have been the brighest idea, but, it would not have been as funny, otherwise. And, I certainly hope that in the Olive Garden handbook in training there is now a new claus informing employees of sidewalk chalk and their feelings about chalking, because I'd like to just say..we did not realize that, that kind of behavior was frowned upon. haha! Cheers to sidewalk chalk and a book that was completely true to it's title.

2 comments:

:: ashley :: said...

the best job EVER...cough cough

Kath, Becca, and Ellie said...

i'm LOVING every minute of your first official blog. how does it feel to broadcast to the world? :)

Hey, did you know that Brian Regan is coming to town???