STORYTIME My 4 embarrassing waitressing mistakes
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with Lucy I’ve got a really fun
lesson for you today it is a story time
now ages ago ages ago i made two
storytime videos about funny things that
happened to me whilst I was teaching and I
always get loads and loads of comments
from you saying please do another story
time and I couldn’t really think of
anything really funny to tell you until
I went out for dinner with a friend and
I was telling them about my first job
and I realized that I have a lot of
funny stories to tell you so today I’m
going to be telling you about my
first-ever job today I’m going to be
telling you about my first-ever job that
I started when I was 14/15 and the four
stupid, embarrassing & funny mistakes
that I made whilst doing that job now
the ultimate goal of this lesson is
hopefully to make you laugh but it’s
also going to be to help you improve
your listening and your pronunciation so
I have lovingly written subtitles for
you but I want you to try listening to
this once with no subtitles and once
again with subtitles because then you
can see how much you manage to pick up
and the second time you watch it you can
look at the words and associate the
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let’s get started with the embarrassing
stories right now I’ve said it many
times before i come from a tiny tiny
village
in the county of bedfordshire and there
weren’t II mean my village it doesn’t have a
bank or an ATM it doesn’t have a shop
it doesn’t have anything apart from a
pub and an outdoor swimming pool and
when I was about 14 15 I was desperate
to get a job I was desperate i didn’t
even have anything to spend the money on
I just wanted something to do and i
wanted to have some work experience for
me when I was younger the idea of having
a job and working sounded really cool
and grown up so that’s what I wanted to
do and the pub in the village had some
new management and I thought the
management was really really nice so I
went over there for a meal with my parents
and I just asked are you looking
for any staff and the manager replied
that they were and the manager offered
me a chance to come in next weekend to do a
test shift and then potentially work for
them so I did that and i started working
for them and i was so happy and I was so
eager to please
I wanted to do the job perfectly however
i have always been a little bit i think
the word the correct word is ditsy ditsy
the definition of ditsy is a bit
or a bit scatterbrained doesn’t really
think things through properly or
logically and definitely when I was
younger I was very ditsy I have my
moments now but I’m a lot better and
obviously this was my first job so i
made some mistakes i actually made four
funny mistakes among many other non
funny mistakes but don’t worry I didn’t
get fired
this was over a period of four years over
three years i worked for them for 3 years
every Saturday lunchtime and the first
mistake that I made was to do with the
soup of the day so the pub owners well
the female manager and the male he was
also the manager but he was head chef and
he used to write out the menu board on a
big chalkboard and he used to write in
scrawling beautiful beautiful writing
very elaborate writing all of the
specials and
you’d have to show the guest the specials
board and read it out to them now the
soup of the day was a savoy cabbage soup
a savoy cabbage soup
however i read it as a sandy cabbage soup
I went around telling all of the guests
hello yes our soup of the day is a sandy
cabbage soup and I remember them
all saying sandy cabbage
how can it be sandy cabbage and I was
like look our chef is very experimental
but I assure you it will be delicious
well nobody ordered the sandy cabbage
soup and at the end of the day the chef said to
me Lucy no one’s ordered the soup I’ve
got like a whole pan of soup here
what happened and I was like well it was a bit of a
strange name i personally wouldn’t order
that and he was like what savboy cabbage soup
I just thought oh my god and in the end
I did admit to him and say I’m so sorry
i got it wrong i thought it was sandy
cabbage I was imagining this soup with
like gritty bits of sand in it i don’t
know but no one ordered it and I was in
a little bit of trouble but luckily they
were very nice to me because I was still
quite new so that was the fourth most
embarrassing moment that wasn’t too bad
the third most embarrassing moment was
the welsh rarebit now a Welsh rarebit is
a quite traditional it’s a traditional
dish it’s basically cheese on toast
welsh rarebit now that day we didn’t
have the specials board so the manager
said to me Lucy today we’ve got Welsh
rarebit and so I thought she was just
pronouncing it a little bit posh so I
went and told everyone
yes today only £5.95 we have Welsh rabbit
and so loads of people started ordering
rabbit for £5.95 so I was like yes it is an
amazing deal and they were like yes give me the
rabbit yep we’ll all have it..welsh rabbit
seven Welsh rabbits please so i went back in and I was like
guy’s amazing deal everyone wants
the welsh rabbit and they were like
what I said everybody wants the Welsh
rabbit and they said to me Lucy it’s not
rabbit it’s rarebit so i had
to go out and tell everyone
guys I made a mistake it’s not rabbit it’s
actually cheese on toast
that just shows that even native English
speakers struggle with the British
english pronunciation Rare bit
rabbit i mean the same almost
ok the second most embarrassing moment
was oh god this was really really embarrassing
there was a really quite old woman she must
have been 80 with what I guess was her
daughter who was about 60 and they were
having a lovely quiet meal and when it
got to the end of the meal the old lady
went to the toilet and so the younger of
the two signalled to me and says obviously
saying can I have the bill she wanted to
pay it quickly while the mother was in
the toilet I guess as a surprise and I said
I went back and I brought her a glass of
milk yes
this woman had said can I have the bill
and I had read from her lips
can I have a milk can I have the bill
can I have a milk it looked the same
so i made it really really special for
her in a little tube glass filled with milk
I put a straw in and I thought how lovely this
woman obviously wants to look after her
mum’s bones make sure she’s got lots of
calcium so I put it on the table and
they were both say there and I watched them just
sit and look at it for ages like did you
order this and in the end they called me
over and said sorry and we ordered the bill
and you gave us milk
oh my god it’s so embarrassing yes
so in the end I i was I
couldn’t apologise enough I was like oh my god I’m
so sorry I read I lip read the milk
you know I totally misunderstood I’m
really really sorry and I remember them just
looking at me like
poor girl she is so stupid And
the final most embarrassing waitressing
moment was the time the time that we ran
out of ice cream i remember it was a
very stressful day there were loads of
guess the restaurant was absolutely full
so it was quite high tension the chef
with a little bit stressed and there was
a huge table there were about seven
children there seven children seven
adults there were a lot of people on this
one table and the children all had the
children’s menu which came with a free
scoop of ice cream at the end and you
could have strawberry chocolate or
vanilla and so at the end of their meal
I said right guys you get free ice cream
which flavour would you like and they were like oooh vanilla
chocolate strawberry so i took their orders
I went to the to the chef and I said
right we need two vanillas three chocolates
and two strawberries and he said didn’t you
hear
we don’t have any ice cream left why did
you offer it and I said oh my god what
are we going to give them then and he
said he was getting really annoyed with
me at this point he said eff all which
means absolutely nothing I heard waffles
so I said oh really
ok then walked out and told this table
of 14 people said right guys
no ice cream but the chef has just
informed me that we have waffles and
other children were like yeah waffles waffles they
were so excited and the parents also
wanted waffles so in the end and I went back to
the chef
I was like great we’ve saved the day we want
fourteen waffles please
and he just looked at me and was like waffles
what are you talking about I said eff all and
I was like and I just thought oh my god
i have messed it up again twice twice
how and in the end we
had to find them yet another dessert
option and needless to say the chef
wasn’t that happy with me however we
made up in the end and now my brother
works there and I think he does a much
better job so yeah those are my four most
embarrassing moments was working as a
waitress and i would love to know if you
have ever had an embarrassing moment at
work and the kind of thing that’s so
awful in the moment but then afterwards
it’s another anecdote you can just talk
about it so i would love to hear that
don’t forget to put it in the comments
if you liked this story time and you
want to see some more of my story time I
have a story time in spanish so if you
click up here you can find out why I was
saying they’re actually sir for two
years and what I was trying to say and
also the night opportunity to him meet
speaking in another language because all
day I go on at you about improving your
second language
why not hear me speak in mind and then I
also have some more in english i get i
tell you about the time that a very
lovely student asked me if I wanted
penis you can click up there as well and
it also another one about the time that
a lovely student made a terrible mistake
was talking about his mother in a
conversation class so those are three
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