The lunch shift at work was pretty busy today.
Positive outlook: more tables, which equals more money; and lets be honest, we could all use more of that these days.
Negative outlook: the odds of having to serve stupid, needy, and ridiculous people increase, oh lets say tenfold.
I had a few ridiculous tables today, but one of them definitely takes the cake. Here is a little background information on this guy:
He has been to Africa and he is very proud of himself for going. He feels that because he has been there, survived, and returned to the states he is cultured and great, and he wants to broadcast it to the world. He is pompous and arrogant and he also thinks he is funny, but he is not.
So he is eating his sushi with his little friends and giggling like a school girl. I go over to check on them, make sure everything is tasting good, and give them some more water. After I top off the three water glasses at the table he turns to me and asks, "when people leave, are their water glasses usually empty or full?" Now I get a lot of word questions from people, but this one was by far the strangest. I wasn't sure where he was going with it so I thought about it for a second and then let him know that it depends, but I try to keep people's water glasses as full as possible. After all, that is part of my job and who likes to run out of water while they are dining out? BIG MISTAKE. Apparently my answer was wrong, and for the next three minutes I heard about it.
He picked up his full glass, held it in front of me, and then proceeded to tell me that he just got back from Africa and the amount of water in that glass was all that a LUCKY family of five there would have to SHARE for a full day. It would be used for drinking, bathing, cooking, cleaning, etc. That was it. And let me add that he continued to emphasize that if they were lucky that is what they would get, the unlucky ones did not have any water at all. He told me that I should be ashamed of how much water was wasted in this restaurant. He said that he kept looking around at all the half full water glasses that we carried back to the kitchen to dump down the drain and it was awful. He said from now on I should ask people if they want water, before I just do the wasteful thing and pour it for them.
I was left speechless. I have been yelled at for a lot of things at that restaurant, but giving out too much water has never been one of them, till now. Unfortunately (and possibly fortunately for the sake of my job) it happened to be one of those moments where you can't think of anything clever to say back until two hours later, so I just sheepishly told him okay and walked away as he turned, kind of chuckling, back to his friends.
Let me start out by saying, I do not like him, and if I ever get fired from the sumo there is a real good chance it is because he returned to eat and I tell him one of my two hour later comebacks, or just do the simple thing and waste more water by "spilling" it on him.
Secondly, are you serious dude? Who do you think you are? Maybe next time you GO OUT TO EAT, instead of worrying about all the water being wasted in the restaurant, you should think about the food that you are wasting when there are STARVING kids in Africa.
I'll settle for a truce, you do not tell me how to serve my tables, and I won't tell you how to save Africa.
Positive outlook: more tables, which equals more money; and lets be honest, we could all use more of that these days.
Negative outlook: the odds of having to serve stupid, needy, and ridiculous people increase, oh lets say tenfold.
I had a few ridiculous tables today, but one of them definitely takes the cake. Here is a little background information on this guy:
He has been to Africa and he is very proud of himself for going. He feels that because he has been there, survived, and returned to the states he is cultured and great, and he wants to broadcast it to the world. He is pompous and arrogant and he also thinks he is funny, but he is not.
So he is eating his sushi with his little friends and giggling like a school girl. I go over to check on them, make sure everything is tasting good, and give them some more water. After I top off the three water glasses at the table he turns to me and asks, "when people leave, are their water glasses usually empty or full?" Now I get a lot of word questions from people, but this one was by far the strangest. I wasn't sure where he was going with it so I thought about it for a second and then let him know that it depends, but I try to keep people's water glasses as full as possible. After all, that is part of my job and who likes to run out of water while they are dining out? BIG MISTAKE. Apparently my answer was wrong, and for the next three minutes I heard about it.
He picked up his full glass, held it in front of me, and then proceeded to tell me that he just got back from Africa and the amount of water in that glass was all that a LUCKY family of five there would have to SHARE for a full day. It would be used for drinking, bathing, cooking, cleaning, etc. That was it. And let me add that he continued to emphasize that if they were lucky that is what they would get, the unlucky ones did not have any water at all. He told me that I should be ashamed of how much water was wasted in this restaurant. He said that he kept looking around at all the half full water glasses that we carried back to the kitchen to dump down the drain and it was awful. He said from now on I should ask people if they want water, before I just do the wasteful thing and pour it for them.
I was left speechless. I have been yelled at for a lot of things at that restaurant, but giving out too much water has never been one of them, till now. Unfortunately (and possibly fortunately for the sake of my job) it happened to be one of those moments where you can't think of anything clever to say back until two hours later, so I just sheepishly told him okay and walked away as he turned, kind of chuckling, back to his friends.
Let me start out by saying, I do not like him, and if I ever get fired from the sumo there is a real good chance it is because he returned to eat and I tell him one of my two hour later comebacks, or just do the simple thing and waste more water by "spilling" it on him.
Secondly, are you serious dude? Who do you think you are? Maybe next time you GO OUT TO EAT, instead of worrying about all the water being wasted in the restaurant, you should think about the food that you are wasting when there are STARVING kids in Africa.
I'll settle for a truce, you do not tell me how to serve my tables, and I won't tell you how to save Africa.
11 comments:
This story totally made me miss my waitressing job Ü
I hope you understand the use of sarcasm Ü
Don't you just love arrogant obnoxious people? I remember wishing i could drop a drink on a few people when i was workin' at a restaurant. Oops, your big head got in my way and I couldn't see where I was pouring!! :O
I wonder if he considered the amount of food he was consuming, and the $$ it cost. I'm sure that could feed Africa for a year.....I guess we should jump on mailing all of Happy Sumo's wasted water to Africa. Jackass.
Seriously... people are rediculous... you let me know when he comes in again and I can "accidentally" spill water on him for you ;)
Yet another reason I could never waitress; I would have cried. What an idiot. He better hope that he never runs into your husband, aka Jack Bauer/Batman/the Transporter - he'd never be seen (or more importantly, heard from) again!
Just reading this made me thirsty! I just went & drank 3 glasses of water. I'm glad I live in the USA and not Africa!
Hahaha!!! Nice venting. I HATE customer service.
you are the best water serving waitress ever. you should have told him how much water you've wasted on MY tables while I've been too slow to get to them.
i think you are a gemstone.
I give you Happy Sumo's permission to give him one of your two hour later comebacks the next time he shows his face in our restaurant. -management:)
How in the world did you just stumble upon my blog??? I'm so happy you did though! did you see from my blog list that Charlotte and Brian have one. I am excited to read yours! yay!
Why don't the comebacks come instantly? It's like that Seinfeld episode, where George thinks of a comeback days later and then works feverishly to recreate the exact situation so he can use it...
I imagine these things in my spare time.
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