Over the next year, perhaps lured into that age-old trap of wanting the impossible, Laurie, aided and abetted by best friend Sarah, searches everywhere to try and locate her elusive "
bus boy," but to no avail.
But her search for
Bus Boy ends when her best friend Sarah introduces him to her - as her new boyfriend Jack.
I was the marketer, cashier, waiter,
bus boy and server, and I still lost money.
The winemaker and owner of LOLA is Seth Cripe, who began his career as a
bus boy in a restaurant on his native Anna Maria Island.
In real life, we have people like Arthur Bremer, the then 22-year-old
bus boy who wanted a place in history by trying to kill the segregationist presidential candidate, George Wallace, in 1972, and in cinematic art, we have Travis Bickle, the alienated protagonist in Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver, who wanted to rid the world of phony, hypocritical politicians.
Set to take to the stage of The Drum in the role of clumsy
bus boy Cyril - the Jamaican Manuel, perhaps - it's one of two productions featuring Ricky at the venue during November.
Cue lashings of glamour and glitterbombs and no doubt a
bus boy or two.
As a last resort, his father called in a favour from a friend and packed his teenage son off to the Furama InterContinental in Hong Kong to work as a
bus boy. The friend confided to Van Kan's father, "six months in this job will either make or break him."
First Job:
Bus Boy and dish washer at McElroy's Harbor House Seafood Restaurant in Biloxi"
After graduating from college with an English degree he worked as a cook,
bus boy, taxi driver, shipping clerk, lab technician, janitor, bartender and window washer on his way to establishing himself as an award winning songwriter for film (Twins, Runaway Bride, Serendipity), television (Touched By An Angel, Dawson's Creek, Miami Vice), and a host of major artists including Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker and Randy Travis.
My first job was that of a
bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in northern Virginia, I then became a waiter and by the age of 18 worked in a trendy bar in DC as a bartender, I also had a part time job with Glorious Food, which in those days was the best catering firm in DC, catering to the White House, embassies and international organisations.