Get that fire cracklin’, I have the PERFECT one for you.
Up until February this year I used to work for Outback Steakhouse. Last October I was closing the Curbside Takeaway on a Friday night, and this means counting a LOT of cash. By the time I would be turning my drawer in most servers had gone home. I was friends with the headwait and was pretty close to the manager, so we were laughing and joking around and whatnot and I was just going to stay so we could all leave together and lock everything up. It was only the three of us left in the building. I knew because I personally let the last server out and locked the door behind them.
So I’m sitting here in the office chatting and laughing while the manager and headwait finish up, all my stuff is done. We’re allowed free refills and I had a huge cup that was almost empty, I figured I would go and fill it up while I was waiting. I walk out of the office and then through the back of the kitchen where the sinks and prep areas are, fill my drink up, and then head back into the office. Friendly chats resume, we’re laughing about some crazy customer from earlier in the night. Then we all become aware of it at once and chatter stops. ....what is that sound?
The office has a monitor for all the building’s cameras. We hear a sound slowly growing louder nearby, some sort of hissing. We look to monitor and there on camera 7, the camera that covers the prep area, is completely fogged over. The prep area is right outside the office. We open the door, cautiously, and step out into the dark to see one of the huge sinks is on full blast. The hot water valve has been physically turned all the way on to its maximum rotation and steam is everywhere. I walked past that sink not 3 minutes before we heard it and I would have noticed it being on. We also would have heard it.
Needless to say we cut it off and very quickly finish our work, it is time to GO. But before we do, we check the camera. They thought I was pranking them. Watching the playback we see me walk past the sink twice as I go and come back. Only after I am back in the room does the valve slowly turn on completely on its own. It never did that before, and never would do it again. Thoroughly spooked we all make sure we leave TOGETHER, and in no small hurry.
It was the following afternoon that we would find out one of our regular customers, an older gentlemen, had died that day.
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