SC - Ooops..hello!

[THL Caitlin Ruadh]

> Upon which note; does anyone have general suggestions for serving in
> general, and High Table in particular?  My first attempt at serving, on
> Saturday, was...ahem...eventful, and I'd like to make sure my High Table
> servers don't have any similar problems.

Well, first and foremost, putting up your hair or at least keeping your body
between it and the candles is always a good place to start!  *duck*

(Alethea is a wonderful, lovely lady who lost what I take to have been
several inches of beautiful hair this weekend in a candle incident (up in
flames) while serving high table....)

Seriously though, keeping hair, sleeves, skirts, etc out of the way really
is a good place to start.  If not the candles, it's still pretty
embarrassing to end up with your sleeve in someone's plate, particularly
with sauces involved.  Or to trip on your skirts and spill the food on
someone, which with my luck would inevitably be the highest ranking person
in the most embarrassing place!

And at the very least make sure the servers know what the dishes are - there
is nothing more embarrassing then the server to high table not being able to
tell the King if he can eat whatever is being served (which is really an
issue, since our current King is a vegetarian....)

Caitlin Ruadh, who missed the sight but caught the smell, and who merely
wishes she had long enough hair to have to worry about such things!


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