90-Year-Old Waitress Depresses the Hell Out of Me

30DDB68300000578-3431211-image-a-74_1454568732021Well, here’s something to either brighten your mood or dampen your day: an Applebee’s waitress in Westampton, New Jersey just celebrated her 90th birthday. Her name is Katherine Walsh and she has been working five days a week at Applebee’s for 13 years. That’s right, she’s 90 years old and still waits tables. She’s the oldest employee of the Applebee’s organization but still slightly younger than a chicken quesadilla she served to Table 109 last week. When asked what’s the secret for staying young, she says, “I guess it’s just being with people.” Well, that and lots and lots of Brew Pub Pretzels and Beer Cheese Dip, probably.

When she got to work last week, her co-workers and customers surprised her with a birthday party where she blew out some candles and then had to go get started on her sidework because it was her turn to do the dressings. Katharine has no plans on retiring because she loves her job as much as her co-workers say they love her. But let’s be honest. There has to be at least a couple of people who don’t like working with her because she probably always pulls out the AARP card to get out of doing the heavy lifting and the sidework that requires one to bend, but who cares? She probably makes bank, has the best section in the restaurant and is loved by all of her customers.

She’s 90 years old and stills wears an apron to work every day. This fills me with utter dread because it means that I might have 42 more years of waiting tables ahead of me and all I have to look forward to is a grocery store sheet cake and some fucking balloons at work. My God.

Happy birthday, Katherine. You are an inspiration, not just to servers, but to everyone. You go, Miss Katherine! Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go take some vitamins because if I’m gonna be waiting tables for another few decades, I need to improve my bone density.

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