The restaurant
I came across this restaurant that I really liked. Well, not that I have gone into the restaurant, so I could only say that I think I would have really liked if I had gone into it. The ambience, settings, food and everything just seems so right.
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Of course, with such a good settings, its certainly manifest on its waiting list. Well, the interesting thing about this restaurant’s waiting list is that you never know how many people is waiting and how many people are ahead or behind you.
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Well, being one who never quite call it quits, I decided to place myself on the waiting list, after being informed by the boss that the restaurant was currently all filled up.
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After waiting for a while, you start to reaslise some discrepancies. People seems to arrive from nowhere and just enter into the restaurant at the biding of the boss, whereas people whom you can see queueing in front of you never quite seem to be clearing up. Well, since they have an invisible waiting list, these guys could have been way in front. With such a haphazardous system, you decided that it wouldn’t hurt if you go and take a break somewhere, since standing up for a long time is really straining.
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After you come back from the break, you are amazed that the whole queue have changed. Apparently the boss could still recognise you and bid you upfront. Wow, you think to yourself that the break really works man. No only it makes you totally rejuvenated and refresh, now you are first in line. So you ask the boss, what happened to those who were around earlier? Well, the boss casually replied that most of them couldn’t stand the wait and had left.
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You smile to yourself, congratulating yourself on how lucky you have been. Then even before you can say "Great", one whole bunch of people appeared from nowhere and entered the restaurant. Now it really starts to feel strange, so you decided to confront the boss again. "hey man, if there’s so much space in there, it can’t be that much of a coincidence that it just happened to fit that bunch of people minus me, right? And seriously, I haven’t seen them before, so what’s with them?"
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The boss upon hearing the question, just smiled back and said, well, you are already at the door, if you can’t wait, you can always leave, can’t you? And btw, we do have some criteria for admitting guests.
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Now, its really getting frustrating. You have been waitin for a long time for your meal, the time where’s its probably sufficient for you to walk and look around for another restaurant…settle down for one and finished up a nice meal…however, having waited for so long, you decided against your better judgement since, it could be your turn anytime soon and you think you have figured out that there isn’t much difference in criteria between those people who are admitted in as compared to yourself. As such, you decided to hold your fort…
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till suddenly, the lights went off and the boss came out of the restaurant telling all the people who is still queueing that they are closed for the day and for everyone to come early next time.
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and damned…i still have not had my dinner yet. And you end up with a serious gastric problem and died (of course not, thought that’s definitely a plausible outcome)
