blessings in disguise...

ok, so i'm a very firm believer in "everything happens for a reason." i believe it more and more everyday. here is an example of it from last night at work...

so i go to take out someone's food and try to take it to the wrong table, i go back to the kitchen to get a check for my own table and to double check where the food is really supposed to go. one of the bussers was on his way out of the kitchen with a couple extra chairs and i had my tray. he let me go ahead of him. i carried my tray out, set it down so that i could drop off the check to my table while on the way to the table that the food belonged to. i set the check down and i hear a big crash. the busser couldn't see the tray i had set down and had run right into it. a little frazzled he asked what he could do, i told him to just clean up the mess while i got the food refired in the kitchen.

i let our manager know and he goes to the table to apologize and schmooze the table for the mishap. it actually ended up working out in our favor... see the guest had asked for no mushrooms in his dish and from what i understand the dish had the mushrooms in it and the kitchen had just picked them out b/c of the set up for that particular dish (NOT something we normally do, i promise!). while at the table, ralph found out the guest was rather allergic to mushrooms and it could have been very bad if we had sent out that first dish.

crazy and so cool! blessings in disguise... i love them! if you have any good ones, feel free to share!