practices (including dressing and food habits and even grooming practices) have always been tools of maintaining social distinction from the lower classes and instruments in exercising symbolic violence over them. Think the...

“weaseled” into a line cook position by taking the host position but offering to come in before the restaurant opened and chop vegetables for 1-2 hours. most hosts are groomed for waitstaff positions but she made it...

groom, drive-through carwash type of deal I’d be eternally greatful. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/cgrover/P8010006.jpg

saw in the groom/bozo! Called it quits after that.

Several years ago I was at a wedding lunch (250-300 people) and when the groom's grandmother came in she had one of those big shopping bags with handles on it. Everyone wondered what kind of surprise grandma had in that bag....

wealthy" (with the way the Euro is going, Petrini’s probably a lot weathier than most customers at Ferry Plaza) and who don’t look like actresses (maybe it’s just a cultural thing of people being dressed and...

the bartenders were supposed to tell them “thanks, but the bride and groom have taken care of that.” Of course, if the person offered yet again (presumably for service above and beyond) I told them that would be fine. Just an...

I have the same reaction to Olive Garden, though I can’t actually remember if I’ve ever been there (comes from hearing about food poisoning there when I was growing up). I went to a wedding in Minneapolis years ago &...

not being precognitive mind-readers I wouldn’t have expected them to know that the couple wanted a vegetarian cake! The cake the gay guy decorated was by far the prettiest IMO, but since he put two grooms on it, it never...

called for a nice bottle of champagne — especially if the groom-to-be is a doctor! And everybody would have had dessert. By the way, I’ve had some killer Italian in Paris.