Update!! Macho mentality

Oh! How I hate the macho mentality!

I am doing a workaway at a cafe-restaurant in Crete, all the tourist are very nice. However, the local men think that women are here to serve them. They do not ask, they demand, and they expect you to serve them with a smile.   And of course, none of them tip.

It is good that they don’t come that often, once a week is more than enough for me. Only four of them come every day, and they don’t complain, they eat whatever I give them.

Well, when I cook the tourist do not know if it is done right or not. However, the local men know the Cretan way, so if I cook something a little different, they let me know.

Like I told them more than once, I am not from here!!! So they can eat what I cook or they can go someplace else.

 Jaja… there is no other place in town.

At least now the owner is back, so he is cooking, I just serve. YEAH!!!

As long as I am bitching: everybody smokes inside.

Three more days and to Santorini I’ll go…

Update

Today there was a memorial service at the church, from 8 AM to 10:30 AM.

After the service, everybody came to the restaurant to eat and drink.

I had all the tables ready and the food was in the refrigerator or on the counters. I thought I was so organized…

As soon as everybody arrived, the men sat at the tables, and the women run into the kitchen.

They run here and there, serving the men. They put the food on the tables, they served them.  They made the coffee, they took care of everything.

There were way too many women in there, one on top of the other, taking care of everything. Obviously, I left the kitchen as soon as they came and I saw what they were doing. After all, who am I to tell them they cannot do it. The way I look at it, less work for me.

They even washed the dishes and glasses and cleaned the kitchen, while I sat in the patio with a very nice man from Norway. He was bicycling through the area and stopped to get a drink. Well, he ate a lot, because they kept on feeding him too.

So, now I understand why the men act the way they do.

They are not allowed to do anything, it is the women job to serve them and take care of them.

And to top it all, some of the women put some chairs in the kitchen and eat there. Incredible!