６月２６日（日曜日）２０２２
ランチの予約をいただいたので前日から仕込みにかかり準備万端整えてお客様を待っていましたが、時間を過ぎてもいらっしゃらず１時間ぐらい待機。それでもお客様の気配がないので電話してみることに。その前に手帳を見て「あっ！」、何と予約は次の日。完全なる勘違い。困ったのは作ってしまった食事。数人分を破棄するのはいくら何でも勿体無いので思い浮かんだある方に電話すると、快くお弁当として引き取って下さることに。ほっとしました。
それから閉店後、足りなくなった食材を買いに彦根まで。自転車上ではマスクなしで店に入る時にカバンに入れておいたマスクを取り出すと、新品なのにマスクの片方のヒモが切れてかけられず。売物マスクは店にあるけれど複数入ったもので家に帰ればいくらもあるので購入を躊躇し、手でマスクを抑えて買い物を済ませ何とかレジへ。けれど財布を開けてカードや現金を出すのは片手では無理、マスクの片方が耳に掛かって、ダラリと下に切れたヒモと一緒に垂れ下がっているというみっともない姿。いつもの店ですが、我が身の図々しさでこの場を突破。食品をレジ袋に入れる作業も片手では無理。日頃マスクなんてあまり意味ないと思っていても、店内は全ての人がマスクをつけているので流石にこのような場面ではバツが悪かったです。
今日はまたしても失敗がダブルになり教訓も２つ。スケジュールはよく見ること。マスクは２つ以上バッグに入れておくこと。家に帰って翌日の食事の仕込み。何だか疲れる１日でした。
I had a lunch reservation yesterday, so I prepared from the day before and waited for the guests to come, but they didn't show up at the expected time and I was waiting for them for an hour. Since no guests appeared even after an hour, I wondered why they didn't show up and just took a look at my schedule notebook, then I said "Oh!" unintentionally. I realized that the real appointment day was the next day. It was completely my mistake. The problem was the lunch which I already prepared. I called a lady whom I have known since I opened my cafe, and asked if she wanted to get the food as box lunches. She kindly accepted my offer. I thanked her very much.
After closing the cafe, I went to Hikone to get some meat and vegetables to prepare for the next lunch. I didn't cover my face on the way to the supermarket, then at the supermarket when I was about to put on my mask, I was in trouble. One of the strings of my mask was cut and it was the only mask in my bag. I knew I could buy a new one in the supermarket, but I hesitated to do so because I have plenty of new masks at home, so I put my hand on the mask so it wouldn't fall and finished collecting groceries and headed to register.
I found that I was not able to take my money and card out with one hand. While I was paying the money, my mask was hanging down from my right ear and another string was also hanging down. It must have been funny to look at me from another person. Basically I don't like to put my mask on, but in this situation all people except me were putting masks on and I was embarrassed indeed.
After all, it was an unlucky day for me and I got two lessons through my experiences. #1, I should look at my daily schedule carefully. #2, I should put more than two masks in my bag just in case. When I got home, I prepared lunch for the guests as scheduled. It was a tiring day.
