The Glass Isn’t Empty, Lady.
Don’t all of you servers hate it when you’re running around and some fatass lady thinks that her glass of sweet tea isn’t full enough and wants you to get her a brand-new one when she damn well knows that glass is about as full as it can get.
Last week, I had a woman complain that she had been sitting at her table with an empty glass for 15 minutes and demanded that I “get her a brand new glass of sweet tea this instant!”
Here’s a diagram to show you just how “empty” her glass was:
This is no exaggeration. The bitch’s glass was over 80% full. When I explained to her that whenever I would walk by, I saw an empty glass and didn’t think she needed a new drink she said, verbatim:
“Well, I just figured you could read my mind.”
If that’s not the definition of an idiot, I don’t know what is.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:03
HI! I just wanted to let you know that I recently started reading your site, and I’m basically addicted. Keep it up, man- you’re a barrel(sp?) of frickin’ monkies, and I don’t use that phrase lightly.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:07
You can’t read minds? What kind of server are you?
November 28th, 2006 at 7:32
do you mean that you saw a full glass?
your last couple posts have been priceless.
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:22
Heh, i hate people who do that, That’s why i would never be a server. Well that and that i would be fired for telling someone to, and i qoute: “Suck my left nut and call me skippy”
December 7th, 2006 at 6:20
(I had a hell of a night at work tonight, so I’m running through and catching up on your site to make it all better. Can you tell?)
Fat people irritate me, especially when they order 4 sushi rolls, 2 of which are fried and all of which contain mayo, with a side of spicy mayonnaise and then top it off with DIET SODA. Come on, now. The soda is not the problem here.
Slightly more related… a coworker of mine picked up a wine glass from this guy the other night - it had less than a half a sip in it, a few dredges at the bottom; just enough that you could tell what color the wine had been at one point. When she went back to the table, the man insisted that he was going to drink that and demanded another glass of wine be delivered to replace what she had taken. A full glass, mind you.
January 26th, 2007 at 4:19
The only thing that pisses me off when going to restaurants is when I already have too much ice in my glass after drinking all of the drink I’m drinking and having a dumbass wait person fill it up with more ice and so little freaking drink( it usually happens when they pour from a pitcher) don’t they have the common sense to even look at your cup and decide you already have way too much ice in it, at least they could change if not ask to see if you wanted a new cup when they refill it.
January 27th, 2007 at 4:41
I have a similar problem when I dine at Chineese resturants. I get a 3/4 full glass of soda. After downing it and asking for a refill, they give me even more ice and only fill the soda about 1/2 way. I down that and immediatly ask for another refill. I get another 1/2 fill and ask for more. The wench fills it to 3/4! Honey! That soda only cost you 1 freakin’ cent per gallon! Am I the only one that suffers like this?
March 24th, 2008 at 9:47
Bill -you might be a victim of server punishment for the simple fact your downing the soda. Try drinking the soda next time. Should you be trying to deal with spicy food let me give a tip I learned from my relatives the time we went to a Thai place that was just like the old country. They told me to try this its not very hot-they had lived for 10 years in Thailand-my uncle worked out in the bush teaching the villagers how to grow crops with machinery rather than by hand so he had gone native even read and spoke Thai. I take the offered bite and had snot fly out of my nose it was so HOT. I proceed to guzzle every drink on the table. The mamsan and papasan owners discretely ducked into the kitchen as it would be the height of rudeness for them to LOL in front of me. After I got over the burping and coughing my aunt explained to me to try anything with fat in it like a sauce or use something like rice which will scrape off the heat from the offending dish. If you drink you just get the oil of the peppers to spread all over your mouth and just keep reburning you.
And Bill just as the server for a soda with lite ice. Sometimes you just fall victim to a refill pitcher with too much ice and ice pours out more than expected.
And to I do NOT know what it is up with that very small category of problem guests that I mentally think of as the REFILL NAZIS. They literally freak out if their glass gets past a certain point and I have never had one have this point be as low as 1/2 full. If they had any more weird freak out issues I would write em off as OCD but nope they just obsess about their drinks.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:30
guys,
ice is only frozen water. it won’t hurt you. we fill the glass with ice because that decreases the surface area of ice that is in contact with the drink and therefore the ice stays solid for longer. if there is less ice, the ice melts quicker and spoils the quality of the drink. it is nothing to do with us trying to rip you off, we’re just trying to provide the best standards. and please, if you order a cocktail with no ice, don’t be surprised when a) it is warm, and b) it half fills the glass. it is made to a recipe. we are not so stupid that we will fall for the “less ice = more liquor” theory.
rant over. brilliant site mate