Waiter: Probably learning to read.
You have to read ursine.
Looks like I'm gonna have to read the trouble shooting section of the manual.
She didn't have a shoulder to cry on!
Because they often spend years at C EDIT: made it more punny
The waiter responds, "The backstroke."
Because he'd drop everything
Alphabet Soup.
With 26 characters he met at a party.