Recently, on the popular social news website, Reddit
, a picture with the title “I work at a restaurant, and if you do this, fuck you.
” got very popular. Of coarse, the first thing I thought about was this website and how that picture was a perfect example of the assholes in this world.
While Reddit user Habeas pointed out that this happened at a Taco joint, a place where you pick up your food from the counter then bring it to your table, this type of behavior also happens at fine dining establishments as well. And, if you think for one second that only kids and teenagers do this, you’d be very wrong. I see adults do this (make completely unnecessary messes on restaurant tables and floors) on a regular basis.
I think most adults can agree that kids and teens are assholes. Behavior like this, completely wrecking a dining room table at a restaurant, can be expected by today’s youth. Influence by television, internet and movies has helped to createa society of self-centered egomaniacs
. These are youth who seem to disregard anyone or anything that doesn’t yield a direct effect on themselves. To put it bluntly, many youths simply don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves.
Agreeing about kids making poor decisions, can someone tell me what’s going on in the minds of adults who wreck restaurant tables? Am I a crazy person for stacking my plates neatly when I go out to eat? Is something wrong with people like me who feel bad for making a mess when we go out to eat? Am I wrong to look at a parent in disgust when they let their kids spill food all over
the table, chairs, booths and floors? Should I just have no expectation of people acting in a civil, house-broken manner when they go out to eat? Is it illogical to think parents can have control of their children and not let them trash the place
?
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They do this crap everywhere in every store they go. Its not everyone, just that one customer who is such a piece of trash, they fuck up everything they touch. It makes you wonder what their lives are like.
I work in a clothing retail shop and you can not IMAGINE the trash that walks through the clothes. And they literally believe there is a team of people just waiting to clean up after them. I had one woman over hear us talking about cleaning the store and said, “Don’t you guys have an overnight team come in to clean up”. HA HA HA HA. I said, no ma’am, I have one person to clean the whole misses department, do the fitting rooms, AND get the customer service returns, and he/she is expected to do that all before closing. I would be happy to clean that table compared to the mess that walks through our store.
I feel you on this.
When I get a table with kids…one, just a couple, or a whole Helluva lot…chances are about 99.999999% that there’s going to be a mess.
I’ve never understood how people can go out to eat and allow their children to completely fuck up the restaurant in the process. It’s almost as if American parenting skills have literally been forgotten over the past 20 years or so. They allow their children to be loud, oftentimes profaine, and extremely messy. And, they expect us–the wait staff, to put up with it. Not to mention the other poor diners as well.
And, the bitch of it is–kids have never had it better, restaurant-wise. When I was a kid, there was no such thing as a kids’ menu–you had to get whatever the rest of the people were eating. If you misbehaved, you got the shit kicked out of you right then and there, and nobody said boo. There were no crayons. No video games at the table. None of that. Oh, and if you made a mess, you could count on your Mother to give you a slap and force you to make it right.
The worst part of that whole type of situation is that the parents usually tip for shit, even when it’s obvious that you went way above the call of duty just putting up with their behavior. Never mind that you now have to totally clean and detail the boogers off the fucking table where their kids just sat. Nope. The best they’ll do is tip you standard…if that.
Come to think about it, I think I’ve only had one table that actually took good care of me after their kids fucked the joint up–25% on a $130 tab. The rest have just paid their bills, left 15% or less, and just avoided eye contact and scurried out of the restaurant like they just shoplifted the salt and pepper shakers ‘n shit….