What the hell else is there to do on a Saturday night alone
Anonymous
As this customer that I served was leaving the restaurant today, seemingly okay, I walked up to him and said “Thank you have a good night!”
He then looked at me an proceeded to say this:
(with a smile) “Hey I just wanted to let you to know that your service tonight… (smile turns to scowl) was bad. And that will reflect in the tip that I didn’t leave you.”
I stare at him and say “Oh, I’m sorry about that. What exactly about the service didn’t you like?”
He says “You and the redhead girl passed by us about 6 times and didn’t ask my wife if she wanted a refill, but you got the table behind us multiple refills. You never once came by and checked on us and asked how we were doing.”
I looked at the drinks on the table (I really never did get them refills) and his wife has a full glass of iced tea. I said “With all due respect.. I should’ve checked on you guys and that’s my fault but this was my first time ever getting swamped with tables before. Everybody came in at the same time and I was kind of overloaded, I wasn’t used to it. And you guys had full cups so I didn’t bother to ask if you needed refills. But I’m sorry I didn’t check on you, that was my bad.”
He says “Well you still should’ve asked if we wanted refills. The service was really bad and we won’t be coming back.”
I said “Okay.”
He said “You don’t even care do you?”
I said “I don’t know what else you want me to say to you, I’m sorry have a good night!”
He left. Then this fat, 50 year old faggot calls back a few moments later and talks to my manager for 15 MINUTES, probably spewing a bunch of bullshit about how extremely rude I was to him when he gave me polite, constructive criticism about my service. My manager told the other manager that I had a complaint and no matter what I say to counter the complaint, it still looks bad on me.
When I went to clean the table, the table I had next to them asked me if the guy was mad. I explained to them what happened and how it surprised me and they told me they don’t know what was wrong with him and said I gave them excellent service. They left me a 35% tip.
What pisses me off is how this fat old fuck lives such a lame-ass uneventful life that he cared enough to call the restaurant back and complain to my manager about something that wasn’t even a big fucking deal. He got his food, never needed refills, and I came to them as soon as they were done.
If he really, REALLY needed something he could’ve asked when I walked by like every other normal human being does. If a server isn’t checking on me, yeah it’s annoying, but if I needed something I would flag them down. Just because his wife is probably a stuck-up bitch like himself and he most likely hasn’t gotten laid since he married her ugly ass because she doesn’t want his shriveled 3-incher inside of her, this old man has to take the time out of his night to call the restaurant back and make a 19 year old kid look bad in front of his employers because he didn’t check on said old man when he didn’t really need to be checked on. And I’m sure he would call me immature.
I understand that people are paying for good service when they go out to eat at restaurants, but what the fuck do you expect from a fucking wing joint? This isn’t Scott’s Seafood. And I’m not saying I give bad service. While I’d wait on your ass hand and foot any other day, sometimes we get bogged down with more customers than we can handle, and it’s not my fault. I don’t make the god damn schedules.
Besides, not leaving a tip when you’re an adult is usually enough to show that you didn’t like the service and it honestly affects the servers in a positive way; they know when they give bad service. I don’t mind when people don’t tip, I’m just like shit. And I feel bad and try to improve. It’s those cunts that go overboard and do stupid shit like call the restaurant and whine about something insignificant that make the servers want to fuck them over worse the next time they come in, if they do. And they do quite often.
Those are the kind of people that get bricks thrown through their windows.
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All Right (Reprise) - Bobby Birdman
In an email Rob Kieswetter (Bobby Birdman) sent me, speaking of his “Born Free Forever” album, he mentioned:
“I have mixed feelings about it, as it’s a pretty honest snapshot of a pretty specific era, creatively and emotionally…and sometimes retrospection can be painful.”
And now I feel the same way. I can hardly listen to it anymore and I’m not sure why. I used to love it, and I still do, but on a whole different, greater level. It makes me miss something that I can hardly remember feeling. Security, and believing that the future was going to turn out okay.
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Row by Jon Brion from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack.
