Being a food or beer vendor at a professional sporting event has its challenges: You’re trying to sell overpriced items in hopes of seeking a friendly tip to go home with at the night’s end, or you’re constantly yelling “Cold Beer, or “Peanuts” at the top of your lungs in hopes for a thirsty or hungry customer to track you down, just to name a few.
If you happen to work your way up of the food vendor hierarchy, you may be upgraded to the executive or club section, where you’ll take orders and deliver to those fortunate enough to afford those pricey seats. You may even have to carry a large order to a group of patrons that might be outstretching your boundaries. Do you risk the public embarrassment of dropping the food all over the steps and bleachers so you don’t have to take multiple trips to increase the chances of the customer’s satisfaction?
At Yankee Stadium on Wednesday afternoon in Game 1 of their double-header against the Cleveland Indians, a food vendor risked it all and overloaded his carrying tray, and just missed of humiliating himself in front of dozens of Yankee fans, and on regional television that caters to hundreds of thousands of viewers in the New York area.
Why didn’t he have any help delivering all that food? And who exactly was that all going to? Were the fans in that section being snobby and complaining about the wait time, so he decided to deliver it all at once?
Thank goodness for that fan that saved a plate of cookies from mixing in with a bunch of peanut shells on the ground, because that could’ve very humiliating had he dropped even one item.
(h/t to ForTheWin)
