<\/a><\/p>\nLike the restaurant itself, the waitress working when I was there was easy to overlook. She wore her generic black and white server\u2019s attire as if camouflage. Bespectacled and with practical black hair that obscured her features, she moved quickly, whether she was approaching a task or finishing one. \u00a0She avoided eye contact and wore make-up in the fashion of somebody who wasn\u2019t accustomed to wearing make-up, as if it, too, were part of the disguise she had to wear for work.\u00a0 Perfunctory and with her head down, she was a delivery system who offered up no clues as to what her life exterior to the restaurant might be like.<\/p>\n
The place wasn\u2019t very busy and she was getting off early. She cashed out quickly, without hanging around to have a glass of wine or something to eat the way that restaurant staff often does. In her friendless manner she hurried out the door, stopping when a homeless woman sitting on a milk crate said something to her. \u00a0They spoke for a moment or two and then the waitress took out her purse, gave the woman some money and then hugged her right there on the sidewalk. For nearly a minute they must have embraced, and then after wiping away a tear the waitress left, moving into the rest of her unseen life.<\/p>\n
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