Working Helps Me Work

 Being in the hospitality industry while I study film making is, I think, a real blessing. I am a waitress and therefore every single night I go to work and meet such a series of new people. Most of these people blur by into nothingness but every few days I meet people who really make an impression on me. The group of girls that remind me of Sex in the City, the couple who come in awkwardly and have nothing to talk about, obviously on a first date, but the most memorable for me was the old couple who came in every few days. The Blanks. The Blanks always drank Pinot Gris. They sat silently while they ate their soups and the Man always finished his 20 minutes before his wife did. She would fall asleep at the table and he would bang his fist on it to wake her up. They always had the roast whether it was pork, chicken, lamb, or beef. After a while they started branching out, ordering desserts to finish. The man got the Entrée Special from the blackboard. Then all of a sudden,they stopped coming in. It made me realise that these people that came in almost every day for lunch or dinner, I could list off every detail about them at the restaurant but I had no idea who they were. I began to invent a life outside the restaurant for The Blanks. I realised it was much like writing characters for a script. Since then I've begun to pay attention to the customers, the quirks, the way they relate to each other. I'm not stuck in some office with the same people to study for characters every day. I'm special and I get a whole new set every single day. Scriptwriting here I come.