Day #13

Three confessions of your choice

#1 – During my college breaks, I waitressed at an ice cream place called The Parlour (aka Jackson Dairy).  This job was delightful because no two days were the same.  One day I would waitress and the next I would be the sundae maker.  My favorite job assignment was waitressing – tips!  DUH!  My second favorite was scooping takeout.  The ice cream was made on-site at a plant in the back.  It was divine.  Chocolate peanut butter was my absolute favorite.  It was chocolate ice cream with hunky swirls of creamy peanut butter.  My friend Michelle and I consumed copious amount of this ice cream. 

Since Michelle and I were college students working amongst a sea of high schoolers, we were able to get a lot of day shifts which was nice if you weren’t waitressing.  As you can imagine, summer evenings were the busiest times at The Parlour.  Busy times = great tips!

During my day shifts on take-out, I became bestest friends with a customer who would come in wearing her gym clothes, swearing up and down that she had just had the most amazing work-out and needed to reward herself with a sugar-free fat-free vanilla milkshake.  Seriously!  She would come straight from the gym for this special splurge. 

Let me tell you a little story about sugar-free fat-free vanilla ice cream – that stuff was extremely tough and not scoopable.  The first couple of times I did not mind scooping it…but after several months of working at The Parlour, my wrists were sore from the scooping…and since this ice cream was so difficult to scoop – I decided to save my aching wrists by scooping half the sugar-free nonsense and adding regular vanilla.  Before you go and think I am totally evil and “what if she had a food allergy to sugar, Angie Good” judgment passing…she did not.  I asked her.  I’m not that mean to just assume she wanted to save calories and not check for some life or death sugar situation.  She was not allergic.  She was just watching her calories.  At an ice cream ONLY establishment.

It was a slippery slope.  At first I added half the sugar-free stuff & half regular…by summer’s end, she was getting straight up vanilla ice cream and to blend it, I added whipping cream. 

In the end it was win-win…I was her most favorite employee.  She nearly wept when I went away to college.  I imagine she looks back fondly on those “sugar-free fat-free vanilla shakes” and mourns my absence.

#2 – I did not do weights at the gym in the months of March, April, and May. 

#3 – I purposefully hit a goose with my Ford Tempo.  When I say “purposefully” – the goose had tried crossing a very busy bridge.  It was in my lane.  I hit it.  When I told my friend, her mom said, “But what about its mate…geese mate for life.”  Here’s your life lesson…DO NOT MARRY A STUPID GOOSE!!!!  CHOOSE SOMEONE WHO IS SMART AND NOT GOING TO WALK INFRONT OF A FORD TEMPO!!!  The end.