Unreliable waiters 11/06/09
Last night il cameriere shows up after 8pm, leaving la cameriera to do all the rooms by herself. The same happened last Sunday, and I had to prepare the tables alone. I went in to work at 8.30pm to find il cameriere happily eating his pasta along with la cameriera. She turned to say hello, but he hardly moved to say ciao making out to be so engrossed in her and his dinner. Mio suocero later told us that il cameriere had hardly arrived when he started saying to la cameriera, ‘Come on, let’s eat something.’ She said no several times, that she didn’t feel like eating, but he insisted on ‘sharing’ some pasta with her. Upstairs I noticed the tables weren’t ready; they hadn’t been cleaned, the chairs neither, and some place settings were missing and wine glasses too. So basically, as mio marito said later, he had spent the day shacked up on Lipari island with his current lover and then showed up late for work, starving after the day’s ‘activities’, to tuck into dinner laid on by us. So I sa...