@alisoncook From a longtime tipped worker's perspective: percentage based income makes serving one of the rare working class jobs that can keep up with inflation, a benefit that cannot be understated.
Signs I'm getting old: Read the whole NYTimes in Houston piece, with subsequent social media BBQ and taco truck wars and shitfits over Chinatown or East Downtown nomenclature... and I've managed to stay uncharacteristically quiet and indifferent about it all π
@nhallfreelance @JavaPeg It's a Bourdain-esque Faustian bargain. You get to peer briefly into the window of thousands of different houses, knowing you will never get to cross the doorway and enter a single one. So be it, where to next?
@nhallfreelance @JavaPeg The trade off is you die alone and forgotten because you're considered too unproductive and unreliable to be let in anywhere closer than a distant arm's length.
Tonight's Twitter feed reminds me of a bar the night before shutdown blowing out its liquor inventory, with regulars from 10 years ago swarming in crowds to get $3 double shots of single malt.