Gossips who idle, storytelling at fast food eateries after meals
Counties
By
Tony Masikonde
| Dec 05, 2016
We are all leading a very busy life, even for the rural folks, leave alone those in towns.
Even the headsman in the bush is a busy guy. He wants his herd to quickly forage for grass because his itinerary is a tight one. Besides herding the cattle, he will take it to drink water, and the nearest stream may be a ‘full football match’ to get there.
The return trip is another 90 minutes. If he is a serious and successful farmer, he will be feeding and milking not less than ten cows. How dare you think a headsman is an idle fellow with time on his hands?
Now, if the headsmen can be that pressed for time, how about busy urbanites over lunch hour?
We all know that according to the labour laws. We all have 60 minutes to haul ourselves to an eatery, queue or wait to be served, wolf the food down while watching out for unwanted things in your food such as roaches and buttons and still somehow manage to avoid choking on your food.
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Actually, if Cotu fellows cannot manage to convince employers for a pay rise, they should negotiate for increased lunch hour for employees! But if that is not infuriating enough, there is this band youngsters; often college going students who will finish eating in a busy fast food cafeteria and then starting gossiping and chattering away like sparrows.
You can imagine a fast food eatery that students can afford lunch must be pretty affordable and we all want to save money. So such an eatery over the one hour lunch break resembles the old Nairobi Securities Exchange, where stocks were bought and sold by whoever could jostle and shout loudest.
Young people in this country are not renowned for making all the right decisions in life, but to continue chatting excitedly and working through your phone, in a busy eatery at the peak lunch hour; despite the waiter wiping their table hundreds of times in a bid to signal them to give room to others is another low.
Hospitality industry
It’s so annoying also to see someone hang onto two millilitres of juice or soda over the busy lunch hour denying busy and hungry workers an opportunity to bite something before rushing back to the office.
I actually know of a hotel that does not serve plain tea over lunch hour. If you are there at the peak hour, you either get your meal and tea is served thereafter or you get the hell out of the hotel.
Such drastic measures in a hospitality industry have become necessary because of the rascals we are raising in urban centres.
Never mind that majority of those who will stand stranded looking for some table at a restaurant are people whose age is comparable to their parents.
When they are not annoying us at the restaurants, these youngsters are busy selfishly walking in a row of ten down the city streets in line, blocking the entire walkway as they chatter over useless things that have no bearing on our Growth Domestic Product.
As if that is not enough, they walk leisurely wasting other people’s precious time. But why would they be in a hurry anyway and their parents have catered for their every need?
Why would they have a care in the world, yet they know not any bills apart from those occasional ones they get billed while clubbing?
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