just got home
it's about 1 am. it feels so good to be off work. this woman was really upset because she didn't ask her server if the bread had eggs in it. I was in the section next to them and she walked over to me and asked. I told her our pizza dough has egg and butter. She asked if the salmon spread does. I told her I know it has dairy but I don't know if it has eggs, I'd have to check. Then she asked about the baguette. I told her it is regular baguette, but I can't say for sure. The server (B) walks by and overhears us and asks me if what happened. I told her and said you should probably go over and talk to her. So she did, and apparently someone at the table had an egg allergy and "will be throwing up on the flight home." and that she (me) "definitely said the baguette had no eggs." just a psa. It's probably wise to tell your server of any food allergies before ordering any said food so they can check the allergen list for you and also, please begin the order with, "so-and-so has an allergy." It's always people with the worst allergies that never say anything and just assume that a foods okay and people with intolerances that are like, "this absolutely cannot have ___!" people with nut allergies are particularly bad about this. they'll say to me at the end of the meal, "does the brownie have nuts?" and I will say, "someone at the table has a nut allergy?" and then I'll think, 'well thankfully it seems they're still with us...'
alec works tomorrow, but he's still sick so I will probably go in for him.
Eli arrived in korea but he has an overnight layover so they offered him to stay at a hotel there. he called Alec just now, and said "i'm lost." we asked, "did you ask anyone for directions?" and he said "yes, but I'm lost..." it's 10 pm there and 4 am here. He just has a 4 hour flight to the phillipines tomorrow.. but we saw his flight schedule and he had a 4 hour flight to seattle, a 12 and a half flight to incheon, and then the four hour flight to manila. that's a lot of flying.
I flew to korea when I was 16 by myself but luckily when I arrived, I met some pilots on the tram who were heading to immigration and they showed me how to get there. my passport photo was soooo overexposed that one of the ticket agents at one point of my trip was like, "uh... this is you?" incredulously. just dark eyes, lips, red hair and everything else was overexposed.
When I was 10 I flew to seattle for the first time by myself and I was so terrified because no one told me about the trams... I didn't know they connected different parts of the terminals. the anchorage airport doesn't have those. my phone didn't work in seattle because I was on an alaska phone provider at the time (acs - alaska communications services which later was bought by gci in 2014, now alaska's largest telecommunications provider) so I had to use the alaska airlines services phone to call my brother who was meeting me and I remember I started crying because I'd never been to an airport like that before. I went to san francisco when I was 7 but I don't remember it much. the story is my mom couldn't get a taxi for us to get to my grandpa's funeral in sf so she offered a limo driver money to drive us (who was probably waiting for his actual scheduled people). so we showed up in a limo. that's the story anyway, I don't remember it lol. I also have a vague memory of my dad and brother longboarding there. my dad was born in california and loved to longboard. He dropped out of school when he was 16 and left california to come to Alaska and fish, and he never left. He met my mom when they were in their early 20s in seward, he was a fisherman and she worked in the canneries. they moved to homer and the rest is history...
Anyway, Eli got to the hotel and he's worried that he won't be picked up by the bus to go back to the terminals (I'm guessing this hotel is somehow connected to the airport?) because he doesn't know what time he's supposed to wait for it in the morning...
More updates from Eli... He was supposed to fly to manila but his flight was delayed and he missed his connection. the airline is refunding him because now he has a 14 hour layover in korea and he has to fly to taipei. also did I mention his family is already in the Philippines, because they were on an earlier flight... his dad just didn't book him on the same flight as the rest of his family...
S sent me a video on instagram. She's at her mom's house and she found a 1992 mead notebook where her mom wrote my phone number on a post it note... 727-4504.. SHIELA. she's still trying to lend that olive branch but I feel like a cat.
I don't know exactly when I met S for the first time but it was probably around 2004 or 2005.