"blake murphy" > wrote in message
.. .
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:40:55 -0400, dejablues wrote:
>
>> "The Ranger" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Jul 17, 12:44 pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
>>>> On Jul 17, 10:28 am, "The Ranger" > wrote:
>>>> > What's up with that?!
>>>
>>>> Who knows. Maybe he found out his wife was cheating. Maybe his mom
>> died. Maybe someone stole his car. Nonetheless...he shouldn't have
>> behaved that way.
>>>
>>> More importantly, who cares? Certainly not me.
>>
>> The people who serve us aren't androids or robots. Sometimes they have
>> bad
>> days.
>>
>> Your server was deemed to have made a mistake and acted ****y. A quiet
>> aside with the manager would have been better than throwing your weight
>> around, demanding ,while name-dropping, to see "John" (the manager?
>> maître
>> d'? ) and publicly humiliating the server in front of his supervisor
>> and
>> your party. You could have asked for another tab, in order to revise your
>> tip, with no explanation. It seems like you were on a mission and
>> derived
>> pleasure from seeing this server get punished, and he ended up paying
>> for
>> your whole dinner (did I read that right?)
>
> bingo.
>
I think deja has waited tables. Every tenth customer is likely to be this
way. They are paying to make someone uncomfortable. I had a guy like this,
and I finally got down on one knee at the end of the booth and looked him in
the face (his wife and daughter were there too) and said "Sir, what can I do
to make you happy?" This after taking his meal back three times and finally
having it "comped" as we used to say.

I had called him so accurately (he knew I was saying that there was NOTHING
I could do to make him happy because happiness was not what he wanted, he
wanted to torment me) that he flew into an immediate rage, stormed out the
door, yelling at the manager on the way out "You need to teach your GIRL
that the customer is always RIGHT!"

I told my boss everything and how could he fault me?

heh heh heh.