you'll never twirl pasta in this town again

on being the hostess with the mostest

One of the many mid-shift bathroom pictures I snapped in the restaurant.

This piece was directly inspired by Becca Schuh’s essay Bad Waitress for dirt.fyi. I was so engrossed by her piece that I felt compelled to write the hostessing counterpart.

I became a hostess for the first time by accident, by coincidence, but at the time it felt like fate. I was n…