Say “Gluten free” again, motherfucker, I dare you. I double
dog dare you. Say it one more fucking time.
I have had it with you people and your fake allergies and
fad diets. I don’t need it, I don’t deserve it, I’m a good person and a hard
worker and I’m better than this. You don’t have an allergy, you just saw a
thing on TV and decided to change your diet in fundamental ways based on very
little information, and now you think you’re within your rights to get pissy
with me that our kitchen can’t bend over backward far enough to kiss your ass
and make you happy? Eat a bag of fucks, you low-information, off-menu-ordering
piece of garbage…
What? Of course I have a gun, all the waiters here have
guns, it’s company policy. Now sit back down and shut the fuck up, I’m trying
to tell you something.
And the worst thing is, there are real people suffering
real, in some cases life-threatening, food allergies, and they have real
problems getting their issues taken seriously because peasants like you use
“I’m allergic” as though it and “I don’t happen to like it” were
interchangeable.
They’re not. They’re different words that mean different
things, and you can’t use one in place of the other. You aren’t allergic, this
is not a real allergy, you just happen not to like it.
Huh? How do I know you don’t have a real allergy to gluten? Why
am I so confident? I apologize, allow me to explain…
…YOU ASKED IF THE BREAD WAS GLUTEN-FREE! YOU DIDN’T EVEN
BOTHER ASKING IF THERE WAS SPECIAL BREAD, YOU ASKED ABOUT OUR REGULAR BREAD, AND
WHETHER IT WAS GLUTEN-FREE!
I mean, seriously, do you even know what gluten is? A person
with a legitimate medical issue with regard to processing it would already know
that yeah, there would be gluten in the bread. A person with a non-fake allergy
to gluten would not have to ask.
And you don’t have to ask either. Just order your fucking
food, pay your fucking tab, tip thirty percent for wasting my time and get the
fuck out, and take your weird fad diet with you. Can you do that? Can you? Can
you please do that for me?
Thank you. That wasn’t so fucking hard, was it?
Anybody else here have a problem with how I handled that?
Good.
Now, how about you, sir? Have you figured out what would
you’d like for your dinner?
WHAT THE FUCK IS PALEO??!?!??!
That made me laugh! Yes, I can feel that pain - not another fad diet (cringe) - nicely done!
ReplyDeleteI think he ought to have demanded at least a 50% tip. :)
ReplyDeleteFun story Chris!
(Deanna Schrayer)
Hah! Yeah... they're out there. This was a fun read.
ReplyDeleteI always hated this when I worked in restaurants. But even for the crazies I ran into on a regular basis like this, it doesn't even approach the people I had to deal with when I worked at the spa.
ReplyDeleteNot only would they come in with the fad allergy of the week, they also went to spiritual food gurus to figure out what strange diet they needed to be working on right now.
I would pay extra to watch a waiter go off on a few of my co-workers like that. I'm so sick of hearing ,"Do you know how much sugar is in that?"
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