Your Daughter Doesn’t Want Cherries, Ma’am. You Do.
Children can be a whiny, needy bunch. But is it just me or are parents using that to their advantage? Every day, I notice that more and more parents are exploiting the fact that we servers will hop to it when a little kid wants a refill or an extra side.
I absolutely love it when their kids call them out on it too.
Last night, I gave a little girl her lemonade when the mom, sounding angry for no good reason, demands that her little princess gets some extra cherries.
Mom: “My little girl wanted cherries. Why didn’t you get her cherries.”
Me: “I’m sorry, I must not have…”
Little Girl: “I didn’t ask for cherries, Mommy. I wanted…”
Mom: “Yes, you did.”
And then, in a whisper…
Mom: “We talked about this.”
Little Girl: (loudly) “But I don’t like cherries, Mommy. Why do I have to eat the ch…”
Mom: “She’ll have some cherries.”
That jerk of a woman. If you want cherries, lady, just ask for some. Why you’d want them to go with your Corona (at four-thirty in the afternoon, no less) is beyond me, but at least have the cajones to ask for them yourself.
So I come back with some cherries. Three to be exact.
Mom: “Only three?”
Me: “Would your daughter like some more?”
Mom: “Yes.”
Me: “And how many more would your daughter like?”
Mom: “Umm…five more.”
That tart bitch.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:21
I’m so glad you’re back!!!!!
I’ve actually had something very very similar happen. I started charging $2 each time they asked for another rammakin full of cherries.
i became a hero in the restaurant after that
March 21st, 2008 at 1:17
Starbucks ruling: Pay $105 million in tips case
Judge in California ruled that Starbucks has to reimbursa baristas for tips that “shift supervisors” (aka managers) took from barista tip jars.
Total: $105 Million
Congrats for making the big companies realize they can’t get away with ingoring laws meant to protect the average worker.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080321-9999-1n21coffee.html
March 21st, 2008 at 3:21
ok give her plenty of cherries as they are chick full of preservatives. We used cherries at one place in these plastic jar traps used to catch the fruit flies that bred in the sink drains which then get into the liqour bottles forcing you to gross out customers when they find one floating dead in their scotch and water. They woould really freak if they knew where they hatched their eggs. HeeHee.
OK try this experiment someplace out of the way where your coworkers wont find it and throw it away. Place a single cherry out and check on it every so often like once a month. A cherry its a piece of fruit it should rot RIGHT? Hell no its embalmed in preservatives all it does is dry out a little and lose some of its red color.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:33
Hi all great stuff keep it all up I’n homeless too have been for the last 7years living in tents vans squats thank God no doorways(thats a crazy dangerous place to live). During this last 7years I’ve begain to wounder if homelessness today might be a grand conspiresy. That is governments getting their councils to some how evict radical thinking people who might vote against them come voting day co’s if their on the street then they aint got a vote. For instance I’ve been squatting a pub on a canal in london real nice location holiday home for sqatters I thought. Anyway guess what came through the post the other day? Yeah you guessed it £8,000 worth of counsil tax bills that have to be payed by anyone stupid enough to place a vote and own up and say “DEEERR, I live there”. Hay twist that one around for a while and see what you come up with? Hay Love and Light untill next time keep on living and be prosperous. Dave from London.