Well, it’s been a week. St Patrick’s day at the legion was an experience, I’ll tell ya. We got there about noon and went right to work. Carrie worked on the hot food line and I assisted at the sandwich table. Free beer and free food. All was good… for a while.

Sometime before the dinner rush, the lady that was working the register quit. Just quit. I still don’t know exactly what happened – all I know is that I looked over at the food line and there was Carrie with a big spoon of carrots in one hand while making change for a customer with the other. She had taken over the register while maintaining her part in the serving line.

Later during the dinner rush – my helper, (actually the guy I was supposed to be helping) said he was going to go eat dinner. I never saw him again. Ok… I did, but it was much later. After the dinner rush started dying down I noticed all the empty tables covered in dirty dishes and food. Sherrie had bussed tables earlier in the day (actually, Sherrie did a little of everything all day long) but was busy helping in the kitchen now. So I bussed tables and emptied garbage for a while.

By the time the evening ended Carrie and I had been on our feet for almost nine hours. Sadly, nearly all the beer we drank just made us tired. We cleaned up a little, (we had help for that, thankfully) packed up some leftovers and headed over to hang out at the big table with the family.

A few hours and many beers later we headed out. Thank god I took Friday off. It was a great day. We worked hard – but we had fun and it felt good to be helping out. Plus the fringe benefits were great!!

Tags: holiday, Legion, StPatricksDay