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So I was out with julie_ann on saturday night, and we go off to The Works on Richmond road. We sit down and order our drinks and we are chatting happily away when a youngish couple are seated next to us. They are fine and start chatting it up with the folks next to them. We order our food and an appetizer. At the time, I notice that the menu clearly states that it will take at least 20 minutes to be served and the place is packed, so I figure longer.
The folks next to us order and tell the waitress that they are very hungry and in a hurry and she says that she will do what she can. 20 minutes go by and the woman next to us starts to bitch about how long her food is taking and what kind of business is this, and on and on and on! At this point the guy's cell phone starts going off. Now I don't mind the occasional call in a restaurant ... it happens to all of us with cell phones, but his is going off every five minutes and he is yelling into the phone, like he's talking into a tin can with a string!
Their food shows up, before our I might add, and the bitch starts complaining that the waitress didn't get her order right. There are only four chees curds on the poutine, the fries are dy and she didn't get the cut up onion rings that she wanted mixed in. The waitress apologizes and runs off to get the rings. Meanwhile our food arrives, and she give me an julie_ann a filthy look, like we shouldn't have been served before her. Forget the fact that we were there first! So julie_ann flashes the bitch a filthy look.
By this point the rings have arrived, and I all over the waitress because I got fries instead of poutine. To me, this is no problem. It's easy enough to fix. But the bitch next to me is whining and complaining and bitching to herself and her idiot male companion that this was not what she expected,and why did she have to wait 20 minutes and whine, bitch complain! Never once did she tell the waitress that she was displeased, never once did she shut up. And she was doing this in a loud enough voice to be heard by the whole restaurant!
This woman needed to be booted in the head and taught some manners! Of course, had I done so, I would have been in jail for assault.
And while she's bitching about her food around her food (yes she had to have been talking with her mouth full), the idiot is talking about renting the Bourne Supremacy at the video store since the Bourne Identity was so good and yelling into his cell phone!
The most frightening thing about the whole thing was that they were probably dating or married, and stood a good change of breeding. We sit here and wonder why society is going to hell ina handbasket and I know that itis because of assholes that them who teach they're kids to be just like them. I only hope that one day they get a rude awakening ... I am not the one to do it, becaus I tend to get rude.
So halfway through our meal, julie_ann and I had lost our appetite and had our food wrapped up and I made sure to give the waitress a large tip, since the bitch and the idiot were likely to contest he bill and leave no tip.
This whole situation had just firmed three things in my mind:
1: Use manners, people. Remember what your mother may have taught you: "These people did not come here to hear you." I know my mother taught me that.
2: Be kind to your waitress. Tip regardless of service. That tip is not only for the waitress, but also for the busboys, the hostess, and the cooks. Waitresses are generally paid under minimum wage under the idea that they will receive tips. The restaurant assumes that you will tip a certain amount and a percentage of that must be paid by the waitress to the staff jar, whether you tipped on not. By not tipping, you are stealing from that waitress.
3: Darwin's theory is invalid. Obviously that truly stupid ar taking over the earth.
It's frightening to think that I was even more mad yesterday ...
The folks next to us order and tell the waitress that they are very hungry and in a hurry and she says that she will do what she can. 20 minutes go by and the woman next to us starts to bitch about how long her food is taking and what kind of business is this, and on and on and on! At this point the guy's cell phone starts going off. Now I don't mind the occasional call in a restaurant ... it happens to all of us with cell phones, but his is going off every five minutes and he is yelling into the phone, like he's talking into a tin can with a string!
Their food shows up, before our I might add, and the bitch starts complaining that the waitress didn't get her order right. There are only four chees curds on the poutine, the fries are dy and she didn't get the cut up onion rings that she wanted mixed in. The waitress apologizes and runs off to get the rings. Meanwhile our food arrives, and she give me an julie_ann a filthy look, like we shouldn't have been served before her. Forget the fact that we were there first! So julie_ann flashes the bitch a filthy look.
By this point the rings have arrived, and I all over the waitress because I got fries instead of poutine. To me, this is no problem. It's easy enough to fix. But the bitch next to me is whining and complaining and bitching to herself and her idiot male companion that this was not what she expected,and why did she have to wait 20 minutes and whine, bitch complain! Never once did she tell the waitress that she was displeased, never once did she shut up. And she was doing this in a loud enough voice to be heard by the whole restaurant!
This woman needed to be booted in the head and taught some manners! Of course, had I done so, I would have been in jail for assault.
And while she's bitching about her food around her food (yes she had to have been talking with her mouth full), the idiot is talking about renting the Bourne Supremacy at the video store since the Bourne Identity was so good and yelling into his cell phone!
The most frightening thing about the whole thing was that they were probably dating or married, and stood a good change of breeding. We sit here and wonder why society is going to hell ina handbasket and I know that itis because of assholes that them who teach they're kids to be just like them. I only hope that one day they get a rude awakening ... I am not the one to do it, becaus I tend to get rude.
So halfway through our meal, julie_ann and I had lost our appetite and had our food wrapped up and I made sure to give the waitress a large tip, since the bitch and the idiot were likely to contest he bill and leave no tip.
This whole situation had just firmed three things in my mind:
1: Use manners, people. Remember what your mother may have taught you: "These people did not come here to hear you." I know my mother taught me that.
2: Be kind to your waitress. Tip regardless of service. That tip is not only for the waitress, but also for the busboys, the hostess, and the cooks. Waitresses are generally paid under minimum wage under the idea that they will receive tips. The restaurant assumes that you will tip a certain amount and a percentage of that must be paid by the waitress to the staff jar, whether you tipped on not. By not tipping, you are stealing from that waitress.
3: Darwin's theory is invalid. Obviously that truly stupid ar taking over the earth.
It's frightening to think that I was even more mad yesterday ...
