A good laugh!
We don't really have to think hard to recall funny things that happen here at the hotel. Some we can't repeat, but the ones we can we always like to have a good laugh over.
Like just last weekend, we had a very busy 50th birthday party in the function suite, and The Bottom Bar was absolutely packed after a cattle sale, and the whole team were just running around like crazy trying to get through the shift.
I'm in the Bottom Bar, about to serve someone, and I see Ava fly towards me, I'm quickly hit with a straight Malibu all over my face, and Ava hits the deck! What a thud she made as she hit the ground!
Picture this, her head is lying at the bottom of the 2 stairs into the Bottom Bar and The rest of her body is strewn across the function room Bar.
People in both bars gasp as they are genuinely concerned for her, I run to her, and quickly check she's okay. When I get to her she's laughing so much that she can't speak, she just looks up at me and tells me she's so embarrassed and that I've to get her out of there, quick! I start to laugh she laughs even more and both of us can't move! Customers are piling up at the bar and we are grounded in laughter.....her in pain too I'm sure!
I get her ice for her knee and take her to the Lounge Bar that's quiet, where she sits and calms down. That was her out of action for the rest of the night, and with a team member down, the rest of us couldn't come up for air! A giggle every now and then about the image I had in my head got me through it. Don't worry she was absolutely fine! Ava is my niece, so if you witnessed this on that evening, don't worry, we are used to her clumsy ways and know how to handle it!
On another occasion, we were setting up for a function and the customer had left a banner for us to put up. One of these string ones with hanging letters. I left Mia and Maisie with it, as I'm far too heavy handed for the dainty work it required.
I came back down, and looked at it. They'd made a great job hanging it but I was instantly confused. It read " A WE SOME SINCE 1984" At first I thought it was maybe an in joke between the customer and her friends, as I stood and stared trying to understand it. Then it hit me! AWESOME SINCE 1984! I lost it, laughing, corrected it as the girls burst out laughing, and we were all bent over double!
We still laugh about this regularly, and I'll leave it up to you to decide if it was Maisie or Mia! Of course, I would never say!
It's important to have a laugh when we keep so busy and things can be super stressful and intense, and we always say, heads down when it's busy, and banter when it's quiet. Mind you......not heads down in an Ava way!
Thanks for reading, take care,
Emma.
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