I’m a waitress. Why is it that when I bring food to a table, more often than not the customer has their newspapers, bags, random crap spread out on every possible inch of the table. And they just sit there all dumbfounded staring at me, the person who is standing there with two hands full of food, waiting to – wait for it – give them their food. Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m on the lowest rung of jobs, I’m dirt, I’m not a fancy fucking lawyer astronaut like you. But is it not common courtesy to clear a place for your server to put the food, if you have spread your stuff over the table? Am I mistaken? —Chocolate S. Balls
This article appears in Oct 20-26, 2011.
Oh, some oblivitrons must have wandered in off the street. I always move shit out of the way for eggs benedict, I want that inside me ASAP.
That’s the reason right there OB…why I will never be able to be a server.
I would simply put it right on top of the stuff all over the table.
Then I would ask them if there was anything else ~:)
Not a chance in hell, I would last a single shift.
Yes I know what you mean. I see and hear a lot of shit in the restaurant. People can be so stunned and very rude. They think that just because you’re a server they can treat you like shit.
I really do feel for servers sometimes.
..another one is peeps in a buffet line…like try and get them to move..well the look they give..”hey fuck tard..I’m not here to steal your spot…I kinda work here and I’m bringing FOOD..HELLO! “..
“I’m dirt, I’m not a fancy fucking lawyer astronaut like you.” Well at least the OB got one thing correct about servers.
You sound like some one who works the day shift. If you’re serving breakfast, fergeddabouidit, peeps aren’t awake enough to think. May I place this? or Ready for brekky? is something you might say to alert the diner that hot food is a’ comin’. If the person is standing in front of you a loud “HOT coffee” or even “BOILING HOT coffee” usually works to clear a path. (hint: even if you’re not in a restaurant!)
and that is one reason why, Sebastian, you always dine at a table for one.
I’m not a fancy fucking lawyer astronaut
Take solace in the fact that some are grateful, when you give them food 🙂
http://www.joe-ks.com/MultiMedia/Spaghetti…
just tell them straight up OP “can you just slide your purse/papers/astronaut helmet over a bit so I can put your food down?”
Nothing wrong with that.
People definitely are stupid. I just keep my expectations low when it come to dealing with the public. Very low. Only way to not get disappointed or dumbfounded by people’s idiocy.
Agree with you MORE, I’d do the same thing.
As someone who spent 8 years in Fancy Lawyer Astronaut school, this bitch offends me.
P.S. I majored in Fanciness!
i saw something like this once, when i worked at the old zumburger, in s.s., the waitress looked at them, asked them to move their shit. when fuck all happened, she said okay, and set it on the fucking floor, and walked away. fuck, i wish they had video cams back then. good fodder for boobtube.
i love that marty. i was at the pg hotel for brunch and this women wouldn’t move until the eggs benny were brought out. she then proceeded to eat them over the chafing dish, while piling more on her plate. i love them too, but the way she had her elbows out, guarding them was hilarious
I dunno how hard is it to say excuse me do you mind just moving the newspaper for me please…?
Mel you’re a woman for my heart. Love bennies (eggs not drug).
OB yep. people are idiots, whther not moving their shit or standing in the doorway, or not moving when someone is carting something in or moving so someone can do some work. They are all SELF-ENTITLED TWATS.
when a server comes barrelling around the corner with her hands full, it is totally unreasonable to assume that the customers can recognize that it is their order.
It is SET waitress that thinks customers should have a sixth sense so they can telepathically read her mind and get things out of the way before she arrives.
Next time give them a few seconds to clue in before you blow a lid, boobie babe.
yea PG..eggs benedict can make peeps mental..right up their creme brulee for hypmotizing effects..:)
why did I know seb’s comment before I even finished reading the bitch???
aside from his retarded ‘station in life’ remark…
I’m not sure I’d survive a shift either,
’cause I don’t think I’d put it on their stuff for fear of making a mess and having to repay them…
I’d either stand their just as dumbfounded as they look… or just put it on their lap.
Maybe even the floor if it were the 3rd or 4th moron that morning.
GV, is it a sixth sense to think that a waitress will bring you food … that you just fucking ordered???
She ain’t gonna cut it up and feed you fork by fork….
keep your shit off the table.
What’s worse is when you say excuse me and the assholes still won’t move or move about an inch.