Life is too short for these...but I have to get it out.
1. Background: Went to dinner with fellow classmates. "One "bitterly complained about the service, the food (grits tasted like wallpaper paste), the place, and especially the waitress....and the"one" is an expert apparently having waitressed since birth.
Now I like good customer service as much as the next guy and good food even better.....but please don't ruin my meal with your incessant criticism of everything with a followup of how things should be.
Especially when we are in the austere, known for its fine food/service, and impeccable atomsphere.............DENNY'S
2. Please, please, please......do not question the calorie count of a sip of soda, how many fattening ingredients, how many carbs are in the condiments.....WHEN YOU ASKED to go to a pizza place. Face it. It is greasey NY Pizza...not a rice cake. You knew it going in. Complain on your time. Additionally do not tell me post-pizza that you only went there because you were getting faint and hypoglycemic. If you had chewed that piece of 10 calorie gum, the energy bar, or fat free yogurt that I had offered you previously (everyday this week) you would not be in this predicament.
3. AND finally please, have some manners. If I am eating my "insert snack here" and you ask me what is in it or what is it, you listen to my explanation.....and follow it up with EWWWWWW, Yuck, or I could not put that in my mouth. THEN DON'T ASK if it will turn your stomach. I cannot help if you find almonds, coconut, yogurt, <insert snack>, <insert flavor> gum, ETC. revolting.
I guess I am not being very nice here and I apologize. I just get tired of the medicalization of food. Picky people. People who are nasty for the sake of being nasty. People with hangups who want to celebrate them with a captive audience.
thanks for letting me vent. back to the regularly scheduled niceness.
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I think I am just more annoyed with people who identify with a problem and they just cling to it and obsess over it, get miserable about it....and it is not enough that it consumes them...but they have to make you feel just as miserable and angry....recruit you in their drama llama club. arrrggggh. i refuse.
But, again you know me and I probably would have told the girl to shut up and eat or leave cause your right life is toooooo short. Karma will end up getting her for that cause we don't know why the service was bad. They are people too and often times it is not only the waitresses fault and if the food was bad, blame the cooks not the waitress.
One more thing and I will leave you alone. Since I know you aren't as confrontational as I am, the next time she pulls this, mention to her that you wouldn't dare complain in that manner as they are the ones preparing the food! Refer her to the movie "Waiters" and this may change her mind about being a pain in the ash!
You know what. I am kinda glad I got this off my chest. I was stewing on it and I go back and look and see how silly it was to waste my energy being mad.
People get off on drama too much these days.
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1. I am thankful they are blowing their nose in to a napkin and not getting mucusy things on everything else....hopefully
2. AND that they aren't snorting or running or wiping with the back of their hand
BUT you are absolutely correct it is an ewwww on many levels.
Along the lines of Dana's complaint -- what really creeps me out is when another diner sneezes or coughs wetly into his or her hand (usually there's a perfectly good napkin that could have been used instead) and then continues on without going to the bathroom to wash up.