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"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 10/23/2017 3:08 PM, Gary wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, I believe you. I, personally, would not have sat there and let a
>>> server *glare* at me every time she came to the table. I'd have asked
>>> what the heck is your problem?!

>>
>> For the longest time (during the meal) I was just hoping that I
>> was wrong and maybe imagining things. I didn't want to spoil my
>> daughters special birthday meal either. Only at the very end did
>> I realize that I was right and waitress did assume I was some old
>> guy dating a young girl.
>>
>> You or someone here was right though....I should have announced
>> the dad and daughter birthday thing right as we sat down. That's
>> hindsight though. I never imagined that anyone would think the
>> wrong scenario. Oh well.
>>

> Or at the hostess stand, arranging for a free piece of cake or pie for
> her.
>
>> PS - my daughter did miss all that behind the scene nonsense. She
>> DID have a nice steak dinner and that was my only concern.
>>

> I'm glad she had a nice dinner. I still would not have put up with a rude
> server.
>
> I recall eating dinner alone in a restaurant once and was dressed nicely.
> On my way out the door a young man, he must have been in his 20's and I
> was in my 40's, stopped me and asked if he could have my phone number. I
> laughed and said no. Know what I assumed? He thought I was a hooker. I
> wasn't dressed in skimpy clothes. But I could tell by the way he looked
> me up and down he must have thought I was plying that particular trade.
> Maybe I was wrong and he just wanted a couger. LOL Not interested, sorry
> dude. I laughed all the way to my car.


Ew, ew, ew.