Coffee for “a very silly person”
Made coffee for Michael Palin today.
Just thought I’d share 
It was amazing the lengths the higher up people went to to organise everything, all without giving us, the cafe, the full run down of what was going on. You know, so we could organise and prepare for it better. We were simply asked to reserve three tables in the corner.
Palin arrived with a couple of people, they sat down, chatted, and left. Fairly low key.
Suddenly the chefs arrive with special food for afternoon tea, fussing that we ddin’t reserve enough tables and should have saved one for them to set up the food on. Would have been nice if we’d known there was going to be special food coming up to start with. We all figured he’d left for good. Hell, we’d even taken away the half empty bottle of coke he’d left.
Next thing Chef’s asking for a bunch of drinks, which of course have to be dealt with immediately. Never mind that it’s a busy day in general and there are quite a few customers waiting for drinks. To make things worse, it was at this very point that we ran out of pretty much everything. Cups. Tea pots. Milk jugs. I set up enough tea pots to go through the wash to cover the current orders - but they got diverted to the Palin order. And no more teapots came through for me. Customers were left stranded. A couple even pointed out, when informed that there was a wait on tea due to a lack of teapots, that two had just been sent over to Micheal Palin.
Ah well. It just got annoying, the lack of communication and general break down of efficiency.
Was still fun, knowing he was drinking my coffee.
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Adey Ben, 2 months without a post is terrible. Get moving!!!!!
yojoe What about Missile Pops?
Shannon OMG. Check it out… http://mudhead.uottawa.ca/~pet e/beard.html
Ben A singular beer won’t quite cut it. But you’re on the right track…
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i had to google Michael Palin as i had no clue who he was. so that was cool.
it sucks how famous ppl get better service just coz they’re famous.
but atleast he drank your coffee.
Yeah it would have been freaking funny if he sent it back
You should have taken a photo with him and your coffee. HELLLOOOOO EBAY!
QB, Adey, that would have been rather gutting.
Wendy, uh, don’t see why anybody would want to buy that, except me. I suppose I could massively enlarge it and adhere it to one of the walls in my house…