by Lost Fresno » Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:21 am
My Wife was a Cocktail Waitress at Chauncey's!
Now that in and of itself may not be a great story, but the following is what makes it such a great topic for the lost memories of Fresno. Although I too would stroll down the giant interior of Fashion Fair and peek through the wooden shutters of Chauncey's, I was underage so I never went inside.
Apparently that didn't matter to my now Wife, who at the time was only someone I had dated during high School. After she graduated, she looked for a job for extra money while going to Fresno City College. She was always a very attractive blonde and when she applied for the Cocktail Waitress position at Chauncey's, they immediately snapped her up. She must of looked amazing in that very short brown and tan Chauncy's waitress uniform that I sometimes saw while walking by.
After working there a couple of months her birthday came around and after closing one night they all decided to have a shift drink and toast the new waitress and birthday girl. She wasn't a drinker and quickly became quite buzzed after slurping down her Singapore Sling. Then the bartender asked her, "So how old does this make you today?"
And before she could think about it and with a huge smile, she blurted out: "I'M NINETEEN" and took another sip of her cocktail.
Of course she was immediately fired but luckily she got a job at the Chicken Pie Shop the very next day.
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My Wife was a Cocktail Waitress at Chauncey's!
Now that in and of itself may not be a great story, but the following is what makes it such a great topic for the lost memories of Fresno. Although I too would stroll down the giant interior of Fashion Fair and peek through the wooden shutters of Chauncey's, I was underage so I never went inside.
Apparently that didn't matter to my now Wife, who at the time was only someone I had dated during high School. After she graduated, she looked for a job for extra money while going to Fresno City College. She was always a very attractive blonde and when she applied for the Cocktail Waitress position at Chauncey's, they immediately snapped her up. She must of looked amazing in that very short brown and tan Chauncy's waitress uniform that I sometimes saw while walking by.
After working there a couple of months her birthday came around and after closing one night they all decided to have a shift drink and toast the new waitress and birthday girl. She wasn't a drinker and quickly became quite buzzed after slurping down her Singapore Sling. Then the bartender asked her, "So how old does this make you today?"
And before she could think about it and with a huge smile, she blurted out: "I'M NINETEEN" and took another sip of her cocktail.
Of course she was immediately fired but luckily she got a job at the Chicken Pie Shop the very next day.