{"id":117,"date":"2012-07-09T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/guest-post-sandra-heska-king-you-can-dish-it-out\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T11:36:00","slug":"guest-post-sandra-heska-king-you-can-dish-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/guest-post-sandra-heska-king-you-can-dish-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: Sandra Heska King, “You Can Dish It Out”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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I hope you have been enjoying these \u201cFirst Job\u201d posts this month. Today, writer, photographer and poet Sandra Heska King tells us about her first job, working as a waitress. Her web site,\u00a0Sandra Heska King<\/a>, is always a delightful smorgasorg. Her moniker is creative. \u201cInspirational Writer and Deep See Diver.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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You Can Dish It Out, But\u2026<\/b><\/div>\n
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My grandparents owned a small restaurant called the Airport Grill in Waters, an eye blink of a town a couple miles up the road. And yes, there was an \u201cairfield\u201d right behind it. \u201cField\u201d being the key word. I don\u2019t remember any concrete runway nor anything but a small private plane or a National Guard helicopter parked out on the grass.<\/div>\n
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My first job was as a waitress there.<\/div>\n
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Unless you count reservations clerk for our small motel. My dad still tells the story of waking up in the middle of the night to find me out in our screened porch handing a room key to a strange couple. I \u2018d already taken them out to view the room, and they had filled out the registration card. I was probably still in elementary school, and I don\u2019t know that I learned anything from that, but I\u2019m guessing my parents did.<\/div>\n
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Anyway, back to the restaurant.<\/div>\n
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I was fifteen. I remember handing out plates of pancakes and Grandpa\u2019s famous brown bread to camouflaged men on dark winter mornings. The air hung heavy with the aroma of coffee mingled with bacon grease, and the clank of forks and spoons accompanied deep voices discussing yesterday\u2019s bag or today\u2019s plan. <\/div>\n
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I served camouflaged men in the summer, too, who arrived in jeeps or canvas-backed trucks. As well as snow and water tourists and, of course, the locals who <\/div>\n
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One morning I arrived at work only to be stopped by yellow police tape draped everywhere. Grandpa closed the restaurant that day and sent me home. There had been a robbery\u2014or an attempt. <\/div>\n
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Grandpa was having late-night coffee with the Space-E Motel owner. From where they sat in Wayne\u2019s trailer, they could see a couple of men head toward the back of the Grill. They told Wayne\u2019s wife to call the police and went to investigate. That\u2019s when they saw one of the guys slip through a side window of the restaurant.<\/div>\n
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Jim, the owner of the Waters Grocery across the street, was outside, and they yelled to him for help. The three men stationed themselves at each exit. When the burglar realized he was surrounded, he tried to climb out a window. But Jim tackled him and ended up getting shot in the leg.<\/div>\n
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The man ditched his gun and returned to the motel where he and his cohorts were staying. When the police arrived, they threatened to shoot it out, but gave up in the end.<\/div>\n
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Lots of excitement for a teeny town.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0I reminded Grandpa about the two men who sat at the counter for the longest time earlier that day. I\u2019d served them pie and refilled coffee cups over and over. How mad I was that they left me just a two-cent tip. Two pennies! Grandpa figured they were probably there to case the place.<\/div>\n
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One day, I waited on a big party of customers who all ordered spaghetti. The other waitress helped, and we both set our trays down on the end of the table at the same time. Her tray bumped my tray, and spaghetti flew everywhere, including laps. <\/div>\n
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Grandpa was furious, and I still remember him and Grandma arguing in the kitchen. I assume she was taking \u201cmy side.\u201d But maybe the argument had turned to something else. Anyway, I heard her yell at him, \u201cYou can dish it out, but you just can\u2019t take it!\u201d<\/div>\n
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I\u2019ve never forgotten that.<\/div>\n
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I read the phrase actually comes from cooking. Don\u2019t dish out food you\u2019re not willing to eat yourself. <\/div>\n
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In today\u2019s terms it could mean don\u2019t dish out unpalatable words\u2014words you\u2019re not willing to swallow. Don\u2019t criticize if you\u2019re not willing to be criticized. Don\u2019t look for specks when you store planks. Don\u2019t pass out work you\u2019re not also willing to do. Don\u2019t do to others what you don\u2019t want done to you.<\/div>\n
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Oh, and if anyone wants to give you their two-cents\u2019 worth. Be alert. They might just plan to rob you blind.<\/div>\n

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