Nothing to do with technology, but a great advert for blogging, my favourite online read is currently Waiter Rant. Consistently funny, but also wise and filled with pathos. If he doesn’t get a book deal out of it, I’ll eat my hat. As an hors d’oeuvre, here’s the latter half of his “top ten quotes from the lovely customers [he] had the pleasure of serving this Labor Day Weekend”.
5) “Give him a nice tip. He didn’t fuck up our order.â€
6) “Excuse us waiter, we’re talking about lubrication.â€
7) “Our waitress has too much hair.â€
8) “My gift certificate expired two years ago. Can I still use it?â€
9) “I don’t think the waitress understood our order. Those people usually don’t speak English well.†(Waitress is Latino)
10) “This food’s so good I’d stick my dick in it.â€
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waiterrant is my fav. got me addicted in the middle of exam weeks!!! i read the whole stuff in a few weeks and check it out daily if he got new stuff written…
omg! mom will shoot me dead if she knew. huhu~
Thanks for the recommendation, Ian. It was clever of you to commit to eating your hat if he didn’t get a book deal when (as I’ve learned from reading all his recent posts) he already had one (details at http://waiterrant.net/?p=341).
*coughs sheepishly* I knew I could smell talent…
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