What do you get when you cross a hypo with a waitress? 

No, this is not a trick question, nor is it a joke, really.  The answer, in my case, is one very disgruntled and annoyed guest at a wedding reception, and one very embarrassed waitress. 

    “Why is that the answer?”, I hear you ask. 

Well, one night “on the job” I was having a hypo, and because I was concentrating so hard on the service of the meal and the cleaning of the tables afterwards, I failed to register that I was indeed getting “low” and somewhat weak. 

Consequently, when leaning into the table to collect a glass, whilst holding a tray full of glasses in the other hand, my tray wobbled slightly — enough for a glass of champagne to topple and spill all down the back of a guest!! 

“Oh . . my . . God,” I exclaimed.  I was soooo embarrassed, especially since that was the first time I had spilt anything on a guest.  My supervisor helped the guest to get “mopped up” as best she could, whilst I went to my bag to gobble down my emergency supply of jelly beans.  Once my embarrassment had subsided, I thought that my hypo had probably been happening for a while.  Yet, in my efforts not to “let the team down” during meal service, I had pressed on, despite the fact that I had probably had some idea that I was going “low”. 

So what’s the moral of my tale?  For me, at least, it is to treat an ‘on the job’ hypo as soon as I detect it, no matter what stage I’m up to in the function.  I certainly can’t get injured from embarrassment, but by all accounts I could injure myself, or indeed anyone else present, from a mistake I make due to reduced concentration, agility and strength that usually comes with my hypos. 

Still, I press on in the world as a functions waitress in the quest for the almighty dollar! 

 P.S. Is there ever a good time to have a hypo??!!