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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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My Brush with Fame at Ruby Tuesdays
On Thursday, a coworker and I went to Ruby Tuesdays for lunch. We had a coupon and were hoping we could get the Golf Channel up on one of the TVs in the bar to catch part of the FedEx cup. No dice on the golf -- the tournament was rain delayed. We did have a close encounter with a celebrity though. It came up the tour waiter, Victor Ribas, was of Guatemalan heritage, which caused my coworker to quiz him on many other aspects of his life. We learned, for example, that Victor's grandfather had been a candidate for the Guatemalan presidency before being assassinated. But we also learned that Victor is himself a bit of a celebrity. He's currently the drummer for Hurt. He'd been waiting tables at Ruby Tuesdays to pass the time between completing an album and going on tour -- his brother is also a waiter there and got him the job. Thursday was Victor's last day at Ruby Tuesday as Hurt was going on a headlining tour -- they'd turned down an offer to open for part of Nickelback's tour.
Anyway, I have all this information because my coworker is a very inquisitive guy. To thank him for finding all this out, I printed out a picture of Victor and left it on his desk at work with some of his family photos -- I felt like after the conversation my coworker probably knew nearly as much about Victor as he did about his family.
Also, Victor, if you come across this and the drumming thing hasn't worked out, you were one of the best waiters I've ever had, so there's definitely a future for you at Ruby Tuesdays.
Posted by on 27 August 2011 at 9:58 PM
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