3 Easy Ways To NOT Be An Asshole Customer

How Not To Annoy Your Waitress: A Guide

1.)  When you need something, and your waitress holds up a finger to say 'one minute' DO NOT shove an empty teapot in her way as she's trying to get to another table. That other table has been waiting longer.

2.) When you order take out, especially a complete dinner (or two or three) during the busiest part of a Friday night, DO TIP. Because even though you are just picking up food, your waitress is gathering your meal and double and triple checking that you have the right items. This is time that she would otherwise be spending on the tables she already has. PLUS, she tips the kitchen based on a set percentage of money spent, which means that if you don't tip, the kitchen winds up getting the tips they earn on your ticket from from the gratuity of another table, meaning your waitress will end up making less in tips at the ends of the night. Seriously, even a few dollars will stop your waitress for thinking that you're a self-absorbed ass.

3.) DO NOT give your waitress a credit card that may or may not be working. Because she will spent an extra five minutes fiddling with the computer to make sure that, yes, your card is really and truly not going to be paying for your meal, which stresses her out and delays her from serving other customers.

This has been a public service announcement by redbrunja.

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We have an official actress for Katniss!

As soon as I heard, I rented Winter's Bone (which I have been meaning to see anyway). On its own merits, the movie is elegiac and ominous, if a little slow (especially once the plot becomes clear) but to honest, I was watching to see how Jennifer Lawrence would do as Katniss. And Winter's Bone is, in a lot of ways, two hours of 'I can do justice to Katniss Evereen - let me show you how it's done.'

Lawrence may look nothing like the Katniss in my head or as described in the text (she doesn't) and be a little too old (she is) but I think she is going to do an amazing job with the role. (And furthermore, she's clearly taking it seriously and likes the original text – I forsee no KStew ennui in years to come).

A Babe In The Woods

Spurred on by a new OTP, I've started a tumblr.

And now, flist, I need your help. How do I use it? What are your tumblr names? How do I delete/edit things I've reposted? What is with all the hashtags?

(I'm redbrunja over there too, btw.)