gel

Ok, so I have this job that can be, at times, extremely stressful.  I work in fine dining, and sometimes, it's like the whole world is trying to make you fuck up.  Someone needs steak sauce for their filet mignon, or there is a 4-top of deaf/non-speaking table who also happen to need approximately 14000 iced tea refills in a 2 hour period, only they can't make a polite gesture, they feel they must bang their glass on the table to get my attention and made it known that the iced tea has mysteriously disappeared.  I have, however, found something that melts my stress away like a warm sword through tapioca pudding.  It's this little piece of gel rubber that the geniuses at Crest attach to the outside of their "Crest 360 Toothbrush" packaging.  They glue this little piece of gel, which looks and feels exactly like the piece on the back of the toothbrush above, to their packaging so that people will touch the gel rubber with their fingers and say to themselves: "Wow, if it feels that good on my finger, imagine how great it will feel in my mouth!"  I fell for this marketing ploy, and I fell hard.  I bought the toothbrush, which is great, don't get me wrong, but the best part is that little piece of gel from the packaging.  I peeled it off of the plastic and stuck it on the inside of my check presenter (little black book servers carry).  It's about the size of an M & M and it's bright green and it's prickly and soft and adhesive and rubbery and it just feels great to rub my finger against whenever I get a little stressed out.  I highly suggest stealing one of a 360 toothbrush package, or you could just buy it, cause the toothbrush works really nicely too.  So if you ever come into my restaurant and you see me fingering my check presenter, maybe give me a break and don't ask me to wrap up your bread for you to take home, cause I'm probably a little busy.