Lessons learned...

...While working at a pizza/sandwich place.

1. Do not underestimate the force of a powerful overhead faucet. Especially while washing ladles.

2. Children in the 7th grade will always use "you're a _____" as a come back. See the following:

Kid A: [Walking into the store] Wow it sure is empty in here.
Kid B: You're empty..
Kid A: Can I please get a half turkey hoagie with no tomatoes?
Kid B: You're a tomato

3. It is a valid, and smart decision to wear no less than 7 aprons while washing dishes.

4. The dish room is very slippery when the no slip mats are taken up for cleaning.

5. Managers do not like it when you show up late.

6. Nor do they like it when you forget to clock out.

7. It's necessary to pick favorites throughout the store as well as reasoning for those favorites, to make it through a 6 hour shift on a Friday night. i.e. Favorite hoagie to make (half ham, for its sheer simplicity), favorite soap (sentry soap, because otherwise, I wouldn't know the word "sentry"), favorite microwave (microwave two because I can't reach microwave three, and one is always broken), favorite dish (the little plastic salad bar tops, because their so damn cute), etc.

8. It is not fun to be slapped on the face, or any part of your body, with a fully buttered bun.

9. With time, it becomes sad, yet true humor when you are unknowingly sprinkled with flour, and it stays there all night, until someone makes a phenomenally old dandruff joke.