Jose, my new bloviator friend

 

Bob and I went for lunch at Golden Corral, I paid for the buffet and Bob went off to find a table.

After we filled our plates, Bob said,

what took you so long?

I was talking to Jose.

Who is Jose?

The shift manager/cashier

You were talking all that time to the cashier? How do you know his name?

It’s on his name tag, and besides when he talked to me, He said his name while telling me things.

I said I need dollars for a tip please, he puts it on the tab, and I said, I never carry cash these days, except a 20 for emergencies.

He replied, I do the same thing. He said my dad said a long time ago, Jose, you make a dollar, you save 20 cents of that dollar, you do that and you will always have money when you need it.

I said saving is the way to go, I told my son if he wanted the radio that cost more than we paid for his car, to stop drinking big Gulps at the convenience store and in a few months, he bought the radio.

Jose said, My dad, he says to my brother, you want that motorcycle? Stop smoking, save the cigarette money, 1 year later he buys the motorcycle for cash.

Jose said our favorite waiter, Aaron, is always late.

Bob says Who is Aaron?

 I say you know the one I like so much; he wears eye makeup and is so cute. How do you know his name? He writes it on the ticket when he comes to our table.

We continued the conversation on the way home and Bob says, how do you know all their names and what about the people in line behind you while you talked?

I replied, there was no one behind me, we talked about Aaron, because while Jose swiped my card, Aaron swiped his time card through the other cash register which zeroed out the one I had just signed for, and Jose had to ask for my card and do it again.

Aaron was trying to sneak by while Jose was talking to me, and he caught him, and said something in Spanish to him, I wish I knew what.

The thing is, Jose is a bloviator and we are kindred under the bloviator skin. 

. Did you know bloviator in Spanish and English are spelled the same way?

Click here if you want to know how to say it in Spanish!