Humor from the Darkside...of the line.

I love to make people laugh and smile but when in the kitchen i can do it while being a real jerk at the same time.

One day in my younger years I remember working a very busy Sunday Brunch. The typical brunch where we go through roughly 3 cases of eggs (1 case = 30 dozen = 360 eggs which is roughly 1100 eggs or 500 Benny's). We were all in the weeds and called for all hands on deck; we had 2 people on Pantry (salads / snadwiches / desserts ) 2 on charbroiler (1 person just reading the bills and loading the grill and the other topping the burgers, making the breakfast hash ), a plates person (someone who runs the pass), myself doing omlets, scrambles, poaching eggs, another guy doing benny bottoms, making toast, toasting buns for burgers and a fry guy cooking breakfast potatoes and making appetizers. a busy busy production in the works when suddenly I realize I am running low on liquid egg and whole eggs (liquid eggs are used for the omlets and scrambles) so I run off line to the back fridge to grab what we need.

Being the jokster I am on the way to the fridge I see a line up of shaker cups all along the spice shelf ( we use metal shaker cups incase of spillage to prevent breakage in the kitchen) so I, in my infinite wisdom and humor decide to pour an ounce of soy sauce in random pepsi drinks then head on my way to the cooler to get what I need.

The rush was one of those rushes where we are all on the same page and execution was fantastic, we were pounding out the food in 10 mins or less for almost 90 minutes straight. finally the rush slowed down and the support for the line went back to doing thier prep. Out of no where I hear a scream "BLEGHHHH  ........ F%$# YOU SCOTTY MAC!!"  I had forgotten about the prank I played on the team with the soy sauce.

What made it more funny is that it was such a gutteral reaction to yell and scream from the back prep hall when poor Ricky discovered his drink was sabbotaged and the profanity flooded into part of the dining room that was closest to the kitchen. 

Others had pleged their vengance that afternoon and vowed to destroy me in their revenge. I laughed it off as everyone did including the ones who I got and we continued to celebrate the great team we had and the moments of levity that relieves us from the stress of what we go through on line.