Wednesday, July 1, 2009

163 - When people complain about being tired

When people tell me they're tired, I don't know what exactly they would like me to do to help them. Is this just something that is a 'problem', an 'issue', a matter that deserves multiple people's attention? Does it make them feel better if they confide in me about their exhaustion? Or do they expect me to make them a double espresso, made with extra strong-tasting Coffea arabica beans, and with an additional dose of sugar/sweetener added? Or do they expect me to sing a lullaby to them? Perhaps count sheep with them? Get them home and in their jammies and tuck them in?

It's annoying how people say they're tired in the morning, although, it is understandable since they just woke up. But then again, people also say they're tired after they finish their dinner, and when they' realize just how late it is when they stay up in the middle of the night, and the next day, they complain, yet again, about their tiredness after vigorous exercise during the daytime, and after a good long afternoon of playing games, or work, or day out with the family.

You see, I am tired, if you want me to be frank. I work from 11:30am 'til past midnight for six days a week as a bartender. I have to keep a smile on my face, and talk to customers, my coworkers, and my boss constantly, as if I enjoy washing and polishing a thousand glasses a day. I have to pour over a hundred glasses of wine in a day, over twenty cups of coffee, and over two hundred glasses of beer. I have to remember the names of over fifty different beers, and what their corresponding bottles, glasses, and coasters, look like, as well as memorize each glass and bottle's locations amongst the shelves in the bar, their brewing methods and distinct features, their country of origin, and their prices. I have to remember all the food on the menu, all the ingredients in each dish, how they're cooked, what the chef recommends, what the manager recommends, what wine goes well with what meat, what sauce goes well with what meat, and to which customer every dish coming out of the kitchen should be served. I also need to know a lot of miscellaneous crap, like where to find the spare limes to make garnishable lime wedges, where to find the milk, where to find the various kinds of tea bags (English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Green, Peppermint, etc...), which dial or switch adjusts and controls which light in the restaurant, what music to play at what hour and with what atmosphere, and which credit cards we take and which we don't.........

Uh, of course, I'm tired.

But I don't complain about it, because that doesn't help anybody. It never helped me when I was primary school, 'cause that just made my parents bring me home earlier to put me to sleep. It doesn't help at school, it distracts you, it gives you a reason to not pay attention. It also gives you a reason to be lazy at work. And
It doesn't help when you run, when you swim, whenever you do exercise, 'cause that one breath spent on expressing your fatigue could've been used instead on invigorating you one breath bit further.

I suggest people should just suck it up. If you're that tired, if you're really tired, then forget about your work, or your studies, or your friends and family, all your responsibility, and just go home, go to bed, go relax, go to sleep, go take a break, go rest your eyes, until you're not tired, and generally, just shut up, 'cause I get most of my tiredness, from listening to that one line too often: "I'm tired~"

Argh. People can be so damn whiny. (Oops, was that a bartender's pun?)

7 comments:

J.J. in L.A. said...

I get 6-7 hours of sleep a night and never whine about being tired. People who get 8-10 hours, and whine, piss me off.

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Lynn said...

Some of my friends will go to sleep at nine and wake up at eight, after sleeping like the dead i might add, and whine at least twice an hour how exhausted they are. SERIOUSLY? HOW TIRED CAN YOU BE?

Michael said...

Naomi: I know! We people live on far less hours of sleep a day, but we function fine. Argh.

Anonymous cxiao said...

Boy if I had a nickel...no wait, if I had a penny (or maybe less than a penny...wait is that even possible?) for how many times I have to hear people that I know say, "I'm so tired", I probably wouldn't have to work. Lol, jk. I absolutely agree with everything in this blog. It is so annoying to hear people complain about how tired they are when they don't even do anything about it. When someone says, "I'm so tired" what is the exact response they want? Seriously, whoever is reading this and is guilty of saying, "I'm so tired" all the time, answer me now! Let's hear it! I'd love to hear their side of the story.

WPMUZ said...

My wife does this. "I'm so tired" but won't go to sleep. Or she'll wake up at 3am when nobody told her to and be upset with me because SHE woke up at 3! Smh

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