{"id":5662,"date":"2010-01-22T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=5662"},"modified":"2010-01-22T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:25:07","slug":"the-other-waitresses-deserve-equal-timey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/the-other-waitresses-deserve-equal-timey\/","title":{"rendered":"The other waitresses deserve equal time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early lunch today.\u00a0 Thanks for the blog reader who recommended River City Bar-B-Que on Cassaza.\u00a0 Trying their rib tip plate today.<\/p>\n<p>You know, lately I&#8217;ve been wondering if there&#8217;s been too much Brick on this blog.\u00a0 However, in the past\u00a0week I&#8217;ve had people come up to me and say, &#8220;I love the Brick quotes.\u00a0 Keep &#8217;em coming.\u00a0 We want more pictures too!&#8221;\u00a0 OK, then I&#8217;ll keep going with the Brick quotes of the week, at least until she gets smarter,\u00a0which is not\u00a0likely to happen in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>However, Brick is not the only quotable waitress at the Saucer.\u00a0 The others deserve equal time, and in this post, they get it.<\/p>\n<p>Two Sundays ago, I was hanging out at the Saucer, playing pool.\u00a0 One of the waitresses asked if I had been to church that morning.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at her incredulously and said, &#8220;The way I look at things, I&#8217;m in church right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She seemed to like that answer.\u00a0 Then she asked, &#8220;Do you think Christians are cannibals?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; I asked back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, think about when they take communion,&#8221; she explained.\u00a0 &#8220;When they eat the wafer, they&#8217;re eating the body of Christ.\u00a0 When they drink the wine, they&#8217;re drinking the blood of Christ.\u00a0 Eating and drinking somebody?\u00a0 That&#8217;s cannibalism.&#8221;\u00a0 I had to admit, she had a point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Communion wafers are good, though,&#8221; she said.\u00a0 &#8220;I wish you could buy them in a box at the store.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She thought for a minute, then said, &#8220;They could call them Jeez-its.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early lunch today.\u00a0 Thanks for the blog reader who recommended River City Bar-B-Que on Cassaza.\u00a0 Trying their rib tip plate today. You know, lately I&#8217;ve been wondering if there&#8217;s been too much Brick on this blog.\u00a0 However, in the past\u00a0week I&#8217;ve had people come up to me and say, &#8220;I love the Brick quotes.\u00a0 Keep &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/22\/the-other-waitresses-deserve-equal-timey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The other waitresses deserve equal time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5719,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions\/5719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->