Exhaustion. The kind of severe exhaustion one can only experience after just slaving through another 11 hour catering shift for the fourth consecutive day. Trudging slowly and painfully against the icy wind and pounding snow of a December blizzard, my co-worker, Danny, suddenly freezes in his tracks, an expression of pure horror apparent on his otherwise deathly pale face.

“Oh my God! I - I think I just saw…David Ross….lying on that park bench - covered in snow…I…I think - he’s - he’s dead!! Oh…

“Nah, don’t worry, man, he ALWAYS does that…he’s just taking a nap before his next job.” I assure him.

We’re in Central Park, near the entrance of 59th Street and 8th Avenue. Danny looks up at the towering building with the time and temperature.

“But…it’s 2:55 in the morning….should - should we call an…ambulance…or something?

“No - I’m telling you, man, he’s been doing this for YEARS - as long as I know him…he just goes from one job to another - for any catering company that will pay him ANYTHING…he likes it!

Danny gulps, looks confused. He’s new to the catering world. He’ll learn, though. Oh, he’ll learn - that’s for sure.

David Ross is another kind of legend in catering. Just as Duncan Valiant was famous/infamous for his incredible acts of insubordination and unparalleled alcohol consumption, David Ross is famous for his insane work habits and inhuman feats of strength. He works in sanit, which is arguably the most heinous job in catering - actually, he could be a one-man catering crew. He delights in sanit - LOVES it! In fact, rumor has it that on the rare day he does has off, he is actually building a house - with his bare hands! And he does all this work while proudly wearing a 100 pound weighted vest and 50 pound wrist and ankle weights - while routinely grabbing 15 lugs of water glasses. He is also known to have killed a few malingering waiters while driving a forklift at an event on Randalls Island, yelling:

“Out of the way, ladies!”

The waiters were male, by the way.

Whatever you do - PLEASE stay out of David Ross’s way!!