A Well-Choreographed Kitchen

(I work in a restaurant doing food preparation. Our stations are situated behind the line where food is actually cooked, but there is a window in the partition that is open so we can communicate with each other. Note that I am fairly new and haven’t yet grasped all the kitchen terminology.)

Cook #1: “Can I get pans team to line?”

Me: *to another coworker* “Did he just say ‘dance team to line’?”

(Everyone in earshot erupts with laughter. The cooks from the pans team come up behind us, shuffling on their feet to get by.)

Cook #2: “Hey, we’re dancin’, aren’t we?”