Thursday, April 24, 2008

An LATFC Checklist, Part 1

Inspired by Dr. Hugh Martin's stirring descriptions of reviving ice-bound Europeans and crashing American test planes, the staff has compiled an LATFC checklist:


    Collect colleagues
    Avoid bus on Hooper St.
    Check menu
    Order anyway
    Collect tray and accoutrements
    Count number of FC staff (if few, do not order pasta or sandwich)
    Proceed through line
    Debate with self over dessert; surrender to the lemon
    Assure clerk that you are indeed having a good day
    Pay, unless your initials are JH, in which case you can force a colleague to pay
    Assess seating situation (availability of Prof. Fink, number seats needed)
    Proceed to eat


Coming soon: An LATFC Checklist, Part 2: Kaye Sweetser Demonstrates Item #12

2 comments:

Kristen said...

This is a thought provoking checklist. I am a fan of checklists. And coincidentally read recently in the New Yorker an article about how a simple checklist might be able to save thousands and lives and dollars in intensive care units (perhaps a prescient read should these trips to the Eatery land you in ICU). http://tinyurl.com/2ctzrt

BUT, did Hugh Martin use a checklist of some sort when he was rescuing Europeans from crashing American test planes or whatever? The things we miss by not eating there!!!

Karen Miller Russell said...

Actually I think his cheery little talk started with the emergency room article you referenced. It segued into the origin of the checklist (crashing test planes because someone forgot to flip a switch or something).

More to the point, why has no one commented on my masterful use of html to create the checklist? I skipped ahead to Day 9 in Hollander's book on learning HTML in 14 days. Yet our faithful readers are completely unimpressed. Well, back to the lemon bars.