Just because it's a waiter or tour operator's job to help doesn't mean that you're off the hook in terms of expressing thanks for that help.
As Shapiro notes, "steel and aluminum are not different realizations of a waiter's corkscrew because, relative to the properties that make them suitable for removing corks, they are identical" (2000, p. 644).
A former liquor salesman, he took a job as a waiter because this particular restaurant let waiters cook meals at the tables.
"I was scared to death being a waiter because then I actually had to talk to people, get their orders and tell them about specials," Mr. Buscemi said.
He appears in court records as a nasty, thuggish character, threatening and attacking people in Piazza Navona, beating up a waiter because he didn't like the way his artichokes were cooked.
Tyco also invested $400,000 in a New York City restaurant, SoHo SoHo, because Mr. Kozlowski said a waiter there had given the company a "great deal of publicity," Ms. McRae testified.
But they can also turn into a huge time sink — I've definitely had moments where I'm frantically flagging down a waiter because everything's taken longer than expected, leaving me to try to pay the check and get to my next meeting in just a few minutes.
The staff came to him because, in addition to being a waiter, he is an E.M.T. "And he had already saved another person!" Yvonne said.
He was the first person killed trying to cross the wall, but he remained little known because the second death, of a waiter named Peter Fechter, was captured in dramatic pictures that were published around the world.
