DS of the Week

Once upon a time in the land of Shawnee Kansas, a young man was hired by the Red Lobster restaurant chain.  He started as a busboy earning $1.60 per hour which was minimum wage at the time.  Very soon he proved his value to the restaurant manager, who acted on the young man's request to do real work in the kitchen.  The young man was promoted to dishwasher.  But he had not yet reached his potential. Within a few weeks he became the back up cook, fry cook, broiler man, assembler and finally the lead role in the Red Lobster kitchen, expediter.

This was a time before computers, the Internet, or blogging.  Yet, this young man yearned to do something more.  He wanted to write.  So he began a weekly column, published only in the break room of the Red Lobster where he worked.  The column was called "DS of the Week".  Each week, the young man would faithfully chronicle events that occurred in the restaurant that he considered to be stupid.  It might be a dishwasher who dropped a stack of plates, a back up cook who left a can of oysters unrefrigerated for a day or two, or a broiler man who rested his arm on the white hot broiler grate.  There was never a shortage of material.

The purpose of the DS of the Week column was to poke a little fun at comrades and be as humorous as possible.  The column had the support of the restaurant manager who saw it as a way to build teamwork while learning from mistakes.  Nobody become too upset when named DS of the Week, and everyone got their turn.  Little did that young man know that DS of the Week would eventually become Stupid Letter of the Week, and regularly followed by up to 12 different people.

So now you will understand the name change and why I don't plan to use Stupid Letter of the Week any longer.  So what does DS stand for you might ask?  Well, it's a compound word that starts with Dumb.  Since I do not curse, that is all I can say.