I got into biology because I loved animals and digging in the dirt. I know a female particle physicist who is a rabid Disney fan (gets an annual pass each year and goes on all her days off), and whose work has been tested at CERN.

Why not both?

The customer has no idea most of the time. All they know is that you’re open. If you’re open and taking orders, you’re open and taking orders!

This happened to me just last night. As a pizza cook, nothing pisses us off more than when 10 minutes before closing, someone orders a stuffed-crust pizza. Guess what happened... Spent the last 15 minutes cursing their food, praying for botulism. Because of them, rather than being out by 11:20 or so, it was 11:50. Ugh.

I would love to tell you the fantasies I used to have about davy jones when I was little but then I’d have to kill you because they are so damn embarrassing.

His family were restaurateurs, so I would never expect him to be mean to waitstaff.

It began with a grocery store, which was named “Legal Cash Market” after trading stamps, also known at the time as “Legal Stamps.” The proprietor’s son carried on the name, and benefited from its attendant loyal customer goodwill, when he opened a fish market next door. And it took off! Things snowballed from there.

Plus, he owns that comic book store and is into collectibles, so I can totally see him keeping a big wad of cash on hand at all times in case he finds something he has to have.

Well, if that’s his employment plan, it’s too slow and time consuming to be effective for the whole country.

This actually happened in a restaurant!

If you saw a short guy, that was someone who resembles Steven Tyler, not Tyler himself. Doing a search on him yields 5’10,” and he may be the only Famous Person whose searchable height is low, if anything; I would’ve said about six feet.

What an odd man. I can totally envision this though his motives are so puzzling.

This makes me unbelievably happy. I want nothing more than for NPH to be genuinely nice.

In all likelihood, he probably started out with $10,000… the max you can readily withdraw in cash before you have to start documenting things with the IRS.

One of my friends had been a server for about twenty years and she has had some pretty good celebrity moments. My favourite is when she worked at a local restaurant a few years back. So one of the other servers picked up a large tray full of food and walked out the kitchen to go to her section and laid eyes on who had…

A (mostly) heartwarming special weekend edition BCO? Pinkham, you’ve given me the best birthday present I could ask for!

Wut.

Donald Trump will flirt with the waitress. Every single time. He’s usually pretty good at getting the waitress to flirt back.

And a sra memenay to you too, sir. I’m way too amused by this.

Heh. So I was eating at a sushi restaurant in Tulsa, OK, mid 90s - bar was full so we were at a table. Large group behind me. After awhile my friend goes, “hey, I recognize that guy.” I look around, discreetly not just staring, but every time I try my view is blocked by a rather large woman. My friend can’t think of…