well it finally happened

much to everyone's lack of surprise, it finally happened. last night was the first night since our opening weekend that we had no bookings and we closed the restaurant at seven. at 6:10 we had one booking and were ready for service; we weren't going to set up, but were going to take the food out as needed and then a phone call. hooray. i poured the boiling water onto the rice, ready to start cooking and leanne joked that it would be a cancellation. one minute later, with the rice cooking, she was correct, our table had cancelled and the rice was not required, nor the poppadoms nor the ..... if you don't laugh you'll lose your hair, oh christ i am ...... aargh