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NO RESPECT!!! **rant**
Ok, bear with me... I need to get this out...
1st rant:
The other day, the wife, daughter, and I go out to our local Olive Garden restaurant for a little dinner. Everything is fine until the host escorts another three people (one male, two women)to sit near us. Once seated, the guy asks the host if he is their waiter and then says, "Oh, I'm sorry, you're like the host, right? You get paid more than the waiter because you are better than a waiter, right?" My "Idiot Radar" (tm) began going off right then and there. Then, their waiter came, poor kid. The guy prefaced his order with, "Some people think this is a scam, but it's not." Again, *ding, ding* the radar is going off. He tells the waiter, "the breadsticks are free, right? And the only thing you charge for is the sauce if we order it? Ok, we want an order of the marinara sauce and some breadsticks please. Oh, can we also get some ice water. You don't charge for that, right? Don't worry, we'll pay for the sauce." Now look, I try to cut costs wherever I can also, and I'm always on the lookout for a great deal, but I think this is going a bit too far. The poor waiter, he kept bringing those people more and more breadsticks and water. As soon as the waiter walked away, one of the girls (all three were about 17 or 18 years old) opened up her backpack and took out some crackers and cans of soda. As the waiter went back and forth, they would make comments like "Do you think he spit in our sauce?" They even had the audacity to try to send the sauce back because they didn't get it exactly like they wanted it. When the people at the table next to them left, they asked the busboy if they could have their leftovers. I felt sorry for the employees there, because to these guys, it was all a big joke about how they were cheating a restaurant for free food. I later talked with the manager to let him know that their waiter and staff deserve some type of commendation for having to deal with such rude and inconsiderate people. It was then that I found out that this wasn't the first time they had come in and did that. I think it's about time to start barring those people from coming back in. Oh, and the final straw that broke the camel's back: they actually sat there and tried to figure out what 15% of $3.00 was so they could say they left an appropriate tip for the waiter!
2nd rant:
When I make a mistake, I'm man enough to admit it and suffer the consequences. Apparently, some people have yet to learn this basic skill needed for everday living. My wife parked her car at the local college the day of her final. When she came back, there was a nice dent in the rear bumper and driver's side quarter panel. Of course, whoever it was, didn't leave a note on the car. So this goes out to the person or persons who did this and/or saw this and don't have the cajones to say anything: I hope you are proud of yourselves. Thanks to you, money is coming out of my pocket to repair damage that you caused. Because of you, my insurance premiums are going up. Because of you, I am without the use of that car for 1 or 2 weeks. Thanks to you, I look at every white car I see and wonder "Is that the car that inflicted this life ending tragedy upon me?" All I have to say is thank you for reminding me that I can't trust anyone.
Ok... thanks for letting me get that off my chest... you may resume your normal "Officer.com" activities.
1st rant:
The other day, the wife, daughter, and I go out to our local Olive Garden restaurant for a little dinner. Everything is fine until the host escorts another three people (one male, two women)to sit near us. Once seated, the guy asks the host if he is their waiter and then says, "Oh, I'm sorry, you're like the host, right? You get paid more than the waiter because you are better than a waiter, right?" My "Idiot Radar" (tm) began going off right then and there. Then, their waiter came, poor kid. The guy prefaced his order with, "Some people think this is a scam, but it's not." Again, *ding, ding* the radar is going off. He tells the waiter, "the breadsticks are free, right? And the only thing you charge for is the sauce if we order it? Ok, we want an order of the marinara sauce and some breadsticks please. Oh, can we also get some ice water. You don't charge for that, right? Don't worry, we'll pay for the sauce." Now look, I try to cut costs wherever I can also, and I'm always on the lookout for a great deal, but I think this is going a bit too far. The poor waiter, he kept bringing those people more and more breadsticks and water. As soon as the waiter walked away, one of the girls (all three were about 17 or 18 years old) opened up her backpack and took out some crackers and cans of soda. As the waiter went back and forth, they would make comments like "Do you think he spit in our sauce?" They even had the audacity to try to send the sauce back because they didn't get it exactly like they wanted it. When the people at the table next to them left, they asked the busboy if they could have their leftovers. I felt sorry for the employees there, because to these guys, it was all a big joke about how they were cheating a restaurant for free food. I later talked with the manager to let him know that their waiter and staff deserve some type of commendation for having to deal with such rude and inconsiderate people. It was then that I found out that this wasn't the first time they had come in and did that. I think it's about time to start barring those people from coming back in. Oh, and the final straw that broke the camel's back: they actually sat there and tried to figure out what 15% of $3.00 was so they could say they left an appropriate tip for the waiter!
2nd rant:
When I make a mistake, I'm man enough to admit it and suffer the consequences. Apparently, some people have yet to learn this basic skill needed for everday living. My wife parked her car at the local college the day of her final. When she came back, there was a nice dent in the rear bumper and driver's side quarter panel. Of course, whoever it was, didn't leave a note on the car. So this goes out to the person or persons who did this and/or saw this and don't have the cajones to say anything: I hope you are proud of yourselves. Thanks to you, money is coming out of my pocket to repair damage that you caused. Because of you, my insurance premiums are going up. Because of you, I am without the use of that car for 1 or 2 weeks. Thanks to you, I look at every white car I see and wonder "Is that the car that inflicted this life ending tragedy upon me?" All I have to say is thank you for reminding me that I can't trust anyone.
Ok... thanks for letting me get that off my chest... you may resume your normal "Officer.com" activities.
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