Something I was made all too aware of working as a bus boy/dishwasher/plongeur extraordinaire at a Howard Johnson's out on the interstate. Biologically speaking busboys had penises and waitresses had vaginas. Gender-ally speaking, busboys wore stinky greasy polyester shirts the color of orange, and waitresses wore greasy polyester uniforms.
Waitresses got tips (which got under-reported to the IRS if reported at all). We busboys got sub-minium (yes, under Reagan there was a sub-minium wage by law) wages. We busboys also got accused of stealing tips. After one such, accusation I started to bus tips and throw them in the trash like food scraps. How is that for revolutionary transgression against the economic order? I estimate I threw away at least 5000 dollars over 2 years. It's in a landfill near my parents' home awaiting future extraction and yielding more return than the stuff parked on the Dow.
Charles Jannuzi