> And cooking in a restaurant is *very* hard work...exhausting, in fact.
>
> --
> Best
> Greg

One of my best jobs - midnight/breakfast cook at a Denny's kind of
place. The dead times were very dead, then the rush - different
orders of eggs on every burner, some stupid Crepes a la King, waffles
with some fruit-colored crap out of a can, hash bowns. Did I put the
sausage on the grill or in the deep fryer? Then some late/early drunk
comes in wanting a hamburger or a monte cristo. Serioiulsy, the rush
was a rush.

Management was bad. I was the only one in the kitchen all night,
then, in my egg frenzy, six strangers come in. Whatever. Tickets are
up. Grab a pan. I'm gone.

Don't know if I have the stamina now, but if the phone rang, I'd be at
the diner within the hour. For free. For the buzz.