Randy's Last Day

Randy's been at the restaurant for three years or so. He was the dishwasher working on the night I flew in to do my tasting interview almost two years ago. I fed him a couple things he never had before, told him that my brothers name was also Randy, he smiled slightly and nodded. All he ever wanted to do was listen to music, play drums and clean. You gotta love that. He would walk around tapping the bottom of the mixing bowls just to hear the different pitches just before he put them away clean on the shelf. Everything was an instrument in some fashion.
He had a couple things he wanted to do on his last day, hell, some of the things done in the past should have been saved for 'last day antics" but what fun is that.?
Prior to working with Randy, my dishwasher experience was mostly in the world of crack heads, ex-cons, the mentally challenged or mentally unstable, work- release, or the "one paycheck" guys. At this point, Randy could do whatever he wanted to......and I knew he wouldn't take advantage of it. He just like doing dishes.
I've seen this guy scrub the grout in the kitchen with a toothbrush...........without being asked!

Randy's now enrolled at a college in Gettysburg to learn more about sound and music.

He has a job whenever he needs one here.