Saturday, February 16, 2008
You just can't get good help these days
I'm in a crowded, upscale restaurant. The place is huge and densely packed with diners. Our waiter is serving us when another waiter whose shift just ended barges up to him on his way out. The second waiter starts berating our waiter in front of the whole restaurant. I can't remember over what, but it was petty. Our waiter, maintaining all decorum, ignores the other as best he can and apologizes to the surrounding tables. Finally the second waiter grabs at our waiter's hand and almost makes him drop the glass he was serving my companion. I gesture to the rude waiter that he should leave us alone and get out of the restaurant. The waiter then pokes me hard in the ribs with his index and middle finger. I am outraged and jump out of my chair. "I can't believe the service in this place!" I holler, "Unbelievable!" The restaurant starts to divide into two camps: those who support my outrage and those who think the waiters should do whatever they like. This eternal battle between server and served was, alas, unresolved.
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