Thanks, Barry. Does this buffet umpire signal 'Out!' with a raised index finger, I wonder, to unruly diners?
And Pat, yes that public face, so unreadable, that we all seem obliged to wear sometimes, most of the time?
Bill
On Thu, Jul 17th, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Can't claim that I ever thought of waiters & waitresses in terms of
> cricket & rugby, but you prompt me to say that the formally-dressed
> manager of a Sunday buffet at a Trinidad & Tobago bakery/restaurant in
> Wash DC (with whom I've interacted for years) could pass for a cricket
> umpire. Barry
>
>
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 22:08:40 +1000, Bill Wootton
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Thanks, Canuck Doug. Glad you got there eventually.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> >On Wed, Jul 16th, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> So very Oz (& of course so many other places not Americas), Bill. I
> read
> >> �cricket� in the title as the bug, of course, being canuck. Got it
> >> eventually�
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On Jul 15, 2014, at 5:21 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Cricket waiters
> >> >
> >> > Waitresses in black shifts, working shifts
> >> > and white-shirted, black-dacked waiters
> >> > in restaurants, channelling cricketers.
> >> >
> >> > All action, poise and balance one minute,
> >> > before movement arrested, orders taken,
> >> > arms shouldered and then ... the waiting
> >> >
> >> > for the next delivery, like batsmen who launch
> >> > into strokes, tear off down the pitch, then stop,
> >> > pause, before facing up again. Chin to chin.
> >> >
> >> > And in down time, apparent affability reigns.
> >> > Unlike in the kitchen which is pure rugby,
> >> > full-on elbow grease till the bell rings.
> >> >
> >> > bw
> >> >
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuation 2
> >> (UofAPress).
> >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>
> >> Something else is out there
> >> godamnit
> >>
> >> And I want to hear it
> >>
> >> C.D.Wright
> >>
> >>
>
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