[CFrance]

Originally Posted by buzzy

Maybe she was a hired escort, and he'd never see her again.

I'm just thinking outside the box here.

Good one!

I started this thread hoping to get some humorous responses among the posts. Thanks to all for their thoughts and the laughs.

[kathymar528]

Sheesh...just because I wore some bauble, and tweeted a tiny little tweet, and spilled an itsy-bitsy amount of Coke.

Just kidding - it wasn't me. I promise. Really, I promise it wasn't me. :-)

[ugotme]

Originally Posted by CFrance

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Thanks, LTBD. I agree the lady is probably not a very happy person. Maybe she needs a dog or two!

NO, NO, NO - Please don't wish this person on a dog!

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by ugotme

NO, NO, NO - Please don't wish this person on a dog!

Ha ha! You're so right.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by kathymar528

Sheesh...just because I wore some bauble, and tweeted a tiny little tweet, and spilled an itsy-bitsy amount of Coke.

Just kidding - it wasn't me. I promise. Really, I promise it wasn't me. :-)

BUSTED!!!!!!!!

[Bonanza]

Originally Posted by CFrance

Last night we went to a free tasting dinner at Carrabbas. We got the invite because we are members of their email Amici club. You get all sorts of discounts & such. The invite mentioned tipping was encouraged and appreciated. The dinner was at 5:00. We showed up at 5:00 and got one of the few remaining seats at a long communal table. There were 80 people. Another couple showed up and were going to sit opposite us, but the husband said they should move down one set of chairs and leave the end set for someone else so they wouldn't have to climb over everybody. I was disappointed because I just had this feeling we would have had a good time sitting opposite them.

So then the last couple comes in. He's in a sweater, but she's dressed to the nines, dripping with gold and diamonds, like they were in a three-star resto in Paris or something. They sit down, order tea and coke, and immediately she starts b****ing about everything. I mean everything, starting with there's nothing to put her silverware on, and she doesn't want it sitting on the table. It's too noisy. There's not enough room. Where's the food. Not once did they look across the table and say hello, how are you. She pulls out her cell phone and begins to tweet. He asks, Who are you tweeting, and she says The world, about this place.

There was an appetizer to share--arancini, little rice balls and marinara sauce. She loudly proclaims, I'm not sharing anything. So we all take our share, and finally she grabs the plate and eats the last one, proclaims it horrible and proceeds to write that on the evaluation sheet we had. Starts yelling for clean silverware.

It went on and on. Demanding more silverware after every presentation, clean plates, refusing to share any of the side dishes (although she would take hers after everyone else had served themselves), dissing every dish.

And coughing. They are both coughing repeatedly into scarf (her) and napkin (him) and sloshing themselves in hand sanitizer. Finally he tells us, We're just getting over the flu. We're thinking, How nice of you to share.

After criticizing the rest of the dishes, he finally asks the waitress if there is a charge for the tea and coke. She says No, upon which they get up and leave, leaving NO TIP. Oh, but not before she knocks over her coke across the table, which narrowly misses landing in my lap.

I said to the lady at the other end of the table, Next year would you please not move down? The whole table of 6 had observed her rude behavior. We got a good laugh out of it up to the part where they left no tip.

The waitstaff covered this dinner for 80 in little over an hour. The service was flawless. I am appalled at this couple's behavior. Everybody at the table tipped generously to make up for it.

That's my story.

That woman was very lucky that it was you who was sitting across the table because had it been me, I would have had to tell her off in spades, after her first few outbursts. She was rude to the wait staff and the others at your table and manners, obviously, was not part of her conduct.

[Ragman]

Originally Posted by TheVillageChicken

My Carrabbas story is from lunch this week. A waiter named Todd decided that we would all love it if he inserted himself loudly and annoyingly into our dining experience. Apparently, he believed that singing to us, being overly familiar and talking to us like we were senile nursing home folk was the way to a nice tip. He was wrong.

We had this same server with the same attitude some months back. Worst server experience I have had in a long time and the food wasn't great either.

Our dining companion were our Minister and his wife. It was so bad he worked the experience into the following Sunday's sermon.

[Parker]

She probably had the money in the relationship. He wouldn't dare upset her apple cart. Either way, I don't like them.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Ragman

We had this same server with the same attitude some months back. Worst server experience I have had in a long time and the food wasn't great either.

Our dining companion were our Minister and his wife. It was so bad he worked the experience into the following Sunday's sermon.

Like I said, the waitstaff was excellent and served 80 people in an hour. The waitress who had to handle the diva across the table from us did so in a very professional manner.

The food was as you would expect from a chain restaurant. We like to go there for lunch.

Maybe they got rid of or retrained the overly friendly waiter.

[senior citizen]

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[NanciO]

Though we are known as "Florida's Friendliest Hometown"- unfortunately- when there are 100,000+ people here- we cannot help but have some obnoxious, rude, folks amongst us. It's just the law of averages! Sorry for you and the wait staff!

[jhrc4]

Originally Posted by kittygilchrist

Your story, CF, is possibly about a personality disorder. Sad but true. The person can't see through anyone's eyes but their own, and their view is skewed way out of kilter.
I like Carrabas and wish I had been there, even if someone made a spectacle of herself. and if there two it's folie a deux.

How long did it take you to come to that Conclusion ?

[graciegirl]

My mother handled "personality disorders" of this type with the "Do you live alone in this house" lecture.


If you acted so blatantly selfish, you were gonna get it. "It" being something not nice, like her displeasure, a lecture and a nice long sit somewhere very boring to think it over.


It may NOT have changed our sorry selfish selves but it did teach us to ACT like we were raised well.

[CFrance]

I think there's something genetic about self-entitlement. Oh, 'scuse me, that's a buzzword. Make that B-itchiness

[Bobcuse]

Originally Posted by Ragman

We had this same server with the same attitude some months back. Worst server experience I have had in a long time and the food wasn't great either.

Our dining companion were our Minister and his wife. It was so bad he worked the experience into the following Sunday's sermon.

We frequent Carrabbas weekly and enjoy the atmosphere and the food. We request to sit in a section where a server named Charles is assigned because he is not only friendly but unassuming. Charles always remembers what you usually order, asks if you want to try anything new and offers his honest opinion about each selection, and always checks back to see if we need anything. He does NOT try to entertain us like the server you mention, who ALWAYS behaves exactly as described in prior posts and is very distracting if you sit near his "show"....very annoying to say the least when you are trying to enjoy a relaxing meal with family or friends.