THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY

I dreamed I was working  a part time job. It was at a Hyatt, or some huge hotel.

There was a buffet, a really fancy buffet, and I was doing some nice stuff for it, everything from carved steamship rounds of beef to galantines of duck; from smoked fish mirrors to pate’s;  the band was actually on a riser in the center of the table, 5 piece jazz doing Patsy Cline tunes, and we had them surrounded with tropical plants and  ice carvings of saxophones, stand up base’s,  eighth notes and of course, swans.

I put this buffet together once or twice a week. It was just part time, I still worked my day job.

And as things so often go in dreams, several months went by of working this job when I suddenly realized…

I haven’t received a check yet!

Surely by now I’d have gotten paid, yes?

So I called Human Resources and asked about it.

“This is Steve Renfro and I’ve been doing the buffet on Tuesdays and Fridays for several months now, and I still haven’t received a check”

“Let me check into this for you” the lady says.

A moment goes by.

“Mr. Renfro, I don’t have any record that you were ever hired. What is it you do here?”

“I put together your Tuesday and Friday night buffets”

“Oh, those are very nice”

“Thank you. But you don’t show that I work there at all, and that’s why I haven’t received a check?”

“That’s right Mr. Renfro. You don’t work here”

“So does that mean I don’t have to come in tonight?”

“I don’t know about that. You’ll have to check with the chef”

(About this time in the dream, I’m thinking there is something very Seinfeld about was is going on, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

So she transfers the call down to the kitchen. I explain to the chef that I was never hired, that I never received a check, and that I don’t work there.  Technically, I never have.

“So I won’t be in tonight”  I said.

“But we need you. Your buffets, they are very nice” he says.

I think about it a minute. How can I refuse?

“Ok Chef. What time would you like me?”

I woke up about this time. And it was while I was making coffee at work that I recalled the Seinfeld episode that must have influenced this dream.