rant · moment 5 of 28
The Depressing Waitress at the Closing French Restaurant
from #225 - Friendsgiving | The Tim Dillon Show · #225
8 min
Tim recounts dinner at Taix, a historic French restaurant in Echo Park being demolished for condos, and rants about a heroin-thin waitress who wouldn't stop unloading her personal problems and political opinions on the table.
- Tim critiques late-night comedy's approach to politics over the past four years.
- Dinner in an Echo Park parking lot surrounded by traffic cones because of COVID restrictions and Gavin Newsom.
- The waitress at Taix, a country French restaurant since 1927, looks visibly depressed and hasn't showered in weeks.
- Taix is closing to make way for a high-rise condo development in Echo Park.
- Tim recounts the waitress unprompted political commentary about the city councilwoman during their meal.
- Every server now wears their personal suffering on their sleeve and expects diners to absorb their misery.
- Tim describes the awkwardness of having to validate a server's complaints while trying to eat risotto.
- The waitress had the demeanor of someone with serious drug and alcohol problems, but without any joy or personality.
- Tim contrasts his own rough day—canceled Airbnb, argument with his opener—with going to work and keeping his mouth shut.
- Tim's principle: don't make everyone else participate in your misfortune by unloading during a service job.