On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:11:45 -0400, Shawn Hirn >
wrote:

>You would have waited and tolerated that shoddy treatment? More power to
>you, but if I was in that situation, I would have not waited more than
>20 minutes and I would have certainly been seated and served elsewhere
>long before the OP was seated and served that evening at that Benihana's.

You know...we are talking about Santa Monica....not Pig Trot, Alabama.
I know they could have thrown a rock and hit fifteen good restaurants
from the parking lot at Benihana's.

Conducting your own little nelly spell, (nee, tantrum) in the lobby is
tasteless and uncouth. Life is too short to make "such a big
scene" over something so trivial and most things in life are minute by
comparison.

The OP was offensive in their own right.