At the cafe Nikolai strikes up a tentative friendship with a young waitress, Olga Alexandrovna Anna Sinyakinaa), who shares his sense of isolation.
Holly Schean, a waitress whose home, which she shared with her parents, was swept off its foundation when millions of cubic yards of ash breached a retaining wall early Monday morning, said, "They're giving their apologies, which don't mean very much".
She was a struggling 20-year-old waitress and couldn't afford the couple's shared apartment anymore.
The person with the new American life is Lula, a 26-year-old waitress from Tirana, Albania, who has been living in a shared apartment in New York and is deeply worried about being deported.
Many of the victims were factory workers, waitresses or students, and there seemed to be certain shared physical characteristics.
We shared a row of beds with the cooks, waitresses and cleaning girls.
At lunch, our adorable waitress remained unmoved as the table amassed crumbs from bread and a shared pizza.
A waitress allegedly noticed Natasha sharing her pancakes with the other people seated at her table, and told her that this was not permitted.
But though they never crossed paths at the restaurant, hundreds of supporters of each candidate shared long communal tables and debated their man's merits while waitresses juggled plates of eggs, bacon and grits.
This usually goes direct to the waiter/waitress who has their own change purse or, in some cases, it goes into a shared pot.
