"Oooh, there's another already? Huh, I don't see -- oh, wait, Fade's probably just gotten to Testimony of Mute Things."

Well, the waitress being a Diane Chambers* prototype would match our "real estate novelist" and "could be a movie star" bartender. Having to deftly deal with the customers then double-loads the phrase "practicing politics".

*Character in the 1980s sitcom Cheers.