Re: Hate Thread
When I was younger I worked in a deli a little bit and as a waitress off and on for two years. It's not really that bad. I mean sure there's always a few bad apples, but most people are totally fine. The frustrating stories just stand out more than the others because there's not too much noteworthy about a regular transaction. I never did anything disgusting to anyone's food, but I can't say the same for some of the other people working there.
Anyway, there's some nice stories about customers too. This one time I had this really awful guy who ordered a steamed lobster and he kept chewing me out and asking for another one because it wasn't "red enough." Apparently, he would only eat some kinda mythical crimson lobster from the lost sea around Atlantis. We gave him like 3 different lobsters and it was never enough. We even took him back to the tank and let him LOOK at the lobsters to see if any of them held up to his standards. Nope. We ended up just having to tell him sorry but that's just how lobsters are. Needless to say, he left without giving me a tip which woulda been a pretty nice one since lobster was the most expensive dish on the menu, and it was a party of 4.
I know that sounds pretty bad. The thing is a little while later this older guy at another table I was serving was asking me about it and saying how it was ridiculous that the guy treated me like that. I thanked him and agreed but wanted to be careful not to say anything that would get me in trouble. We had a nice conversation for a little while. When he left, I found a $30 tip, way more than I would have gotten if the other guy wasn't a jerk, and a note that said I was one of the nicest servers he had at the restaurant and that he wanted to make up for the guy that was a jerk to me and left. He said he had a similar job when he was my age and knew just how hard it could be sometimes. That was just so nice. I kind of wished I could have said thank you, but I didn't see him at the restaurant again. I always remembered that.