I'm prettier than you are.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Tip for the Waitstaff

Although I appreciate your willingness to hover over my shoulder like a hummingbird jacked up up and away on a palmful of high grade amphetamines, I will not know, until I have tasted what you have just placed before me, whether or not I would like you to supplement it with freshly ground black pepper via the enormous mill aggressively pressed against your chest like a rifle. It is in exceedingly poor taste to chirp an affirmative without first sampling the food that someone with much more skill with a skillet than I can ever hope to achieve has prepared.

fresh-baked at 06:44 PM
Comments

I have found waitstaff at most "better" American restaurants (meaning anything family-oriented and not fast food), are cloyingly and falsely chirpy in the first place; this is clearly due to intensive training. While it is much better than the surly, pimply-faced kids who serve fries at other places, it is still annoying, and they certainly do rush to ask if patrons want grated parmesan or pepper before you've had a chance to taste the food. (Pasta is the exception; I'll ask them to just leave the cheese on the table, or else I make them grate until their arms ache.)

Offered by: lattegirl on September 6, 2008 5:41 PM

Exactly! Thank you.

Offered by: jamied on September 6, 2008 11:26 AM

Forever and ever, Amen!

And thus concludes this Randy Travis moment.

Offered by: Da Goddess on September 2, 2008 6:47 PM