CeeCee also has her own vocabulary. The only difference with hers is that she twists usual words/sayings into her own annoying bits. And she doesn't just try the phrases out once, trying to be funny and then move on to something else. No, the woman uses the same stupid phrase over and over again, beating the dead horse that wasn't even funny to begin with.
During the normal lunch shift at The Club, the members have 3 courses: soup/salad, main entree', and dessert. A lot of the desserts we have listed daily are the same, only a few key choices change. One of the mainstays is oranges, bananas and kiwi in one dish or, as we refer to it, an OBK. CeeCee, when ordering an OBK, always (and I mean ALWAYS) orders it as an 'Obi Kay Kenobi'. Ok, the first time may have received a few points for being kind of cute but after the 500th time, it gets very old. I really feel bad for the chef that has to prepare it.
Our tables in the dining room are topped with two separate linens and underneath is a felt. Instead of calling the felt what it is (a felt, and nothing more), she calls it 'the underwear'. "Here, I'll hold the underwear while you rearrange the top." "I'll fold the underwear." "I'll go get the underwear for this table." Every. Time.
One of the ladies I work with is from Poland. She only came to the US about 15 years ago and has since become an American citizen. She lives with her parents who only speak Polish so she still has a pretty thick accent. Being from Poland, she has some great jokes but sometimes has a hard time translating them. One that she was able to translate though, I honest to God wish that she hadn't. Not that it's a bad joke, it's actually really funny but CeeCee has since adopted the punchline and uses it every day. The Reader's Digest version of the joke is this: A man is a foreigner and takes an English class to improve his English. His teacher gives him an assignment to use the words 'yellow' and 'pink' in a sentence. The sentence ends up being "The telephone rang so I pinked it up and said 'Yellow!'" Cute, even funnier when a Polish woman tells it because she has the accent to help it along. CeeCee does not. When picking up any tables' order, instead of saying 'Picking up two beefs' she says 'Pinking up two beefs'. Really? Yes.
During the normal lunch shift at The Club, the members have 3 courses: soup/salad, main entree', and dessert. A lot of the desserts we have listed daily are the same, only a few key choices change. One of the mainstays is oranges, bananas and kiwi in one dish or, as we refer to it, an OBK. CeeCee, when ordering an OBK, always (and I mean ALWAYS) orders it as an 'Obi Kay Kenobi'. Ok, the first time may have received a few points for being kind of cute but after the 500th time, it gets very old. I really feel bad for the chef that has to prepare it.
Our tables in the dining room are topped with two separate linens and underneath is a felt. Instead of calling the felt what it is (a felt, and nothing more), she calls it 'the underwear'. "Here, I'll hold the underwear while you rearrange the top." "I'll fold the underwear." "I'll go get the underwear for this table." Every. Time.
One of the ladies I work with is from Poland. She only came to the US about 15 years ago and has since become an American citizen. She lives with her parents who only speak Polish so she still has a pretty thick accent. Being from Poland, she has some great jokes but sometimes has a hard time translating them. One that she was able to translate though, I honest to God wish that she hadn't. Not that it's a bad joke, it's actually really funny but CeeCee has since adopted the punchline and uses it every day. The Reader's Digest version of the joke is this: A man is a foreigner and takes an English class to improve his English. His teacher gives him an assignment to use the words 'yellow' and 'pink' in a sentence. The sentence ends up being "The telephone rang so I pinked it up and said 'Yellow!'" Cute, even funnier when a Polish woman tells it because she has the accent to help it along. CeeCee does not. When picking up any tables' order, instead of saying 'Picking up two beefs' she says 'Pinking up two beefs'. Really? Yes.
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