Even though the dining hall is hectic, it's such a saving grace for when you're starving and just want to eat everything in sight. The dining hall saves people from being hungry and dehydrated from their hangovers after a rough night out, and they make it feel a little bit like home when they do their specialty themed dinners.

Although I don't go as often, I always am happy with the dining hall, and especially their workers. I want to thank the University of New Hampshire dining hall in this letter.

Dear UNH dining hall/workers,

Thank you! Thank you for your hard work and the things you must deal with every single day. I can't imagine your job is easy. You must deal with an endless amount of personalities, manners, and behavior every single day.

Whether it be drunk kids from a party or a million coughing sick kids. You deal with a lot. I want to thank you for having patience when people aren't paying attention when you're handing their plate back to them, and sweating over food just to make us full with yummy food. I really do thank you though for your patience.

The day I was writing this in the lunch line today, one of you was waiting endlessly for this girl to pay attention as you were just holding her plate waiting for her. She didn't bother to look at you because she was too busy talking to her friend. I looked at you and gave you a smile because I know your job is hard, and you were doing great waiting for this girl who didn't know much better.

I want to thank you for when people like me accidentally fling salad makings everywhere because I'm clumsy and messy, and you pick up the scraps everywhere. We should be more considerate when taking our food because we are adults.

Even though cleaning is a part of your job, it shouldn't be so ridiculous and we should know better. I want to thank you for being so nice to us when students are walking in from a day of partying and pile on loads of food that we don't even finish. It sucks we are wasting food, but nobody yells at us. Thank you for that.

I want to thank the workers for being friendly as well. You could easily hate us all and not have a smile on your face when you talk to us because we aren't being the most friendly always, either.

Thank you for talking to us and being friendly and joking around with us. I've had a woman before telling my friend she deserved better when she overheard my friend talk about how she wasn't being treated nicely by a guy.

I also want to thank the woman who I talked to today, you made my short time getting my scampi pleasant. I told you I liked the garlic sticks of bread better than the garlic squares of bread. You told me that they have been getting a really good response, and then you looked at me and said: "Thank you for telling me that."

I don't know why that made me feel good, but I was happy to tell her that I appreciated what they did, and it felt nice that it made her happy too. The dining hall is a hard place, and thank you for everyone, students, adults, everyone who works there for doing what you do. It is simply fabulous and admirable.

From,

A thankful student