- Location
- Ossining, NY
Deanos - we have more in common than I thought -
I worked in restaurants for 11 years and put myself through college - in the last restaurant I worked in (8 years - Pennyfeathers) they used to call me Jimbo - nothing fancy. Then an old friend got a job as an assistant mamager. He and I ran track and field in HIgh School - I ran for Curtis, he ran for McKee Tech. I knew him, not that well, but we reunited at this restaurant in 1989, 2 years after I started working there. Everyone started to call him Ronbo cause he and I got along and knew each otuer so well.
Hang on it's a long story . . . . . . .
My name was inspired by a Thai busboy who never spoke - he was a 36 yr and worked as a busboy to put himself through a doctoral program in Physics at Wagner College. He never talked, and no one was really nice to him cause we were in staten island, and he was a different asian type and it was 1987 - now, Shiao Lin is differenet and has many asian culturee as well as south east asians as well - but back then, there were few asians (never understood why people treated him differently).
Anyhow, I was always nice to this guy and always offered him a different lunch than the staff was eating cause he never ate. It was a quiet Sunday and we just turned 345 brunch covers and he and I were the only 2 staff staying on for a second shift (bridal showers, ,2 of them at 190 ppl each). I said to him "Sam, you want a roast beef club?" He was reaching into a refirgerator in the waiters station and pulling out milk - he turned to me and said sure, turned his head back into the fridge, then looked back out and said "From now on, I call you Jimbo-Ha!"
I said really? OK - he said, that is a sign of respect from his village back home that they gave to the elders.
Since then, everytime someone did something respectful, they would put a "Ha" at the end of thier names - One day Ron (Ronbo-Ha) and I moved in together. A few months after moving in together, we had our housewarming party inviting Sam. On the outside door, the sign read -
Welcome to the "House of Ha"
Now, my screen name is really Houseofha, but you can say what you want it to look like, and I changed it to House of Laughter, cause we had a ton of laughs in that house.
Ron is still one of my closest friends and I consider him a brother. Sam attended the housewarming party and grauated getting a job at Bell Laboratories in NJ.
There it is . . . .
House
I worked in restaurants for 11 years and put myself through college - in the last restaurant I worked in (8 years - Pennyfeathers) they used to call me Jimbo - nothing fancy. Then an old friend got a job as an assistant mamager. He and I ran track and field in HIgh School - I ran for Curtis, he ran for McKee Tech. I knew him, not that well, but we reunited at this restaurant in 1989, 2 years after I started working there. Everyone started to call him Ronbo cause he and I got along and knew each otuer so well.
Hang on it's a long story . . . . . . .
My name was inspired by a Thai busboy who never spoke - he was a 36 yr and worked as a busboy to put himself through a doctoral program in Physics at Wagner College. He never talked, and no one was really nice to him cause we were in staten island, and he was a different asian type and it was 1987 - now, Shiao Lin is differenet and has many asian culturee as well as south east asians as well - but back then, there were few asians (never understood why people treated him differently).
Anyhow, I was always nice to this guy and always offered him a different lunch than the staff was eating cause he never ate. It was a quiet Sunday and we just turned 345 brunch covers and he and I were the only 2 staff staying on for a second shift (bridal showers, ,2 of them at 190 ppl each). I said to him "Sam, you want a roast beef club?" He was reaching into a refirgerator in the waiters station and pulling out milk - he turned to me and said sure, turned his head back into the fridge, then looked back out and said "From now on, I call you Jimbo-Ha!"
I said really? OK - he said, that is a sign of respect from his village back home that they gave to the elders.
Since then, everytime someone did something respectful, they would put a "Ha" at the end of thier names - One day Ron (Ronbo-Ha) and I moved in together. A few months after moving in together, we had our housewarming party inviting Sam. On the outside door, the sign read -
Welcome to the "House of Ha"
Now, my screen name is really Houseofha, but you can say what you want it to look like, and I changed it to House of Laughter, cause we had a ton of laughs in that house.
Ron is still one of my closest friends and I consider him a brother. Sam attended the housewarming party and grauated getting a job at Bell Laboratories in NJ.
There it is . . . .
House
