"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message

> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often simply
> takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it disgusting.
> He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet, free for the grabbing.

That would **** me off.

Cheri

On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:44:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
>It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".

Are you sure you're not the American remake of Dave Smith?

"Cheri" > wrote in message
news
> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often simply
>> takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it disgusting. He
>> seems to treat it as though it were a buffet, free for the grabbing.
>
> That would **** me off.

Someone did that to me once. I gave him my plate. At that point, I was done.

On 9/26/2017 7:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>

Next time perhaps a fork to the grabby paw will drive the point home,
heh, heh...

On 9/26/2017 7:51 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:44:07 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>
> Are you sure you're not the American remake of Dave Smith?
>

Are you happy to paint Auztards as such supercilious Cossacks?

On 9/26/2017 8:18 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "Cheri" > wrote in message
> news
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often simply
>>> takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table.* I find it
>>> disgusting.* He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet, free
>>> for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>
> Someone did that to me once. I gave him my plate. At that point, I was
> done.

I'd have licked it first, for good measure.

"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
.44...
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".

A fork to the back of his hand would work too. ;-)

Cheri

"Casa de Masa" > wrote in message
news
> On 9/26/2017 7:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>
>
> Next time perhaps a fork to the grabby paw will drive the point home, heh,
> heh...


I should have read ahead. LOL

Cheri

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> >> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> >> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> >> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
> >
> > A fork to the back of his hand would work too. ;-)
> > Cheri
> >
>
> What I really wanted to do was stab him with it. It happens far too
> often. No one else in the group seems to think a thing about it. Duh!

Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
real life. How sad.

In article > ,
says...
>
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
> > "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
> >
> >> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
> >> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
> >> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
> >> free for the grabbing.
> >
> > That would **** me off.
> >
> > Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.

That was very rude.
I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".

I think I'd have used my fork to nail his hand to the table.

Janet UK

On 9/27/2017 8:51 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article > ,
> says...
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.
>
> That was very rude.
> I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>
> I think I'd have used my fork to nail his hand to the table.
>
> Janet UK
>





Lil Wayne hit him with his purse.

On 9/26/2017 9:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>

Seems some people have a sense of entitlement. My granddaughter got
married last Saturday. The reception was under a huge tent and typical
round tables. The champagne for the toast was provided by the groom's
grandmother. Near the end of the night she gave me one of the bottles
left over. I had it sitting on the table in front of me. Another guest
came along and just picked it up and started to walk away with it. He
got two steps. It was the end of the night and he was scavenging
anything he could.

On 9/26/2017 11:06 PM, Cheri wrote:
> "Casa de Masa" > wrote in message
> news
>> On 9/26/2017 7:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>>
>>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table.* I find it
>>>>> disgusting.* He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>>
>>>> That would **** me off.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> It does **** me off.* I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.* I
>>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>>
>>
>> Next time perhaps a fork to the grabby paw will drive the point home,
>> heh, heh...
>
>
> I should have read ahead. LOL
>
> Cheri

:-))))


(great minds think alike)

On 9/27/2017 6:56 AM, Casa de Masa wrote:
> On 9/27/2017 8:51 AM, Janet wrote:
>> In article > ,
>> says...
>>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table.Â* I find it
>>>>> disgusting.Â* He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>>
>>>> That would **** me off.
>>>>
>>>> Cheri
>>>
>>> It does **** me off.Â* I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.
>>
>> Â*Â* That was very rude.
>> Â* I
>>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>
>> Â*Â* I think I'd have used my fork to nail his hand to the table.
>>
>> Â*Â* Janet UK
>>
>
>
>
>
>
> Lil Wayne hit him with his purse.
forged

"Gary" > wrote in message ...

] Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
> real life. How sad.


Difference is, in real life you don't have to put up with it like you do in
newsgroups if you want to read and post to them. There are many from this
group that would be invited to my house, and some that would be stabbed with
a fork on sight. LOL

Cheri

"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 9/26/2017 9:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>
>
> Seems some people have a sense of entitlement. My granddaughter got
> married last Saturday. The reception was under a huge tent and typical
> round tables. The champagne for the toast was provided by the groom's
> grandmother. Near the end of the night she gave me one of the bottles
> left over. I had it sitting on the table in front of me. Another guest
> came along and just picked it up and started to walk away with it. He got
> two steps. It was the end of the night and he was scavenging anything he
> could.


There's always at least one of those people in every crowd. Good for you
that you didn't let him get away with it.

Cheri

"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
.44...
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".

A fork to the back of his hand would work too. ;-)

Cheri

==

I doubt I will ever need it but I will bear that in mind ... just in case
<g>



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"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Gary" > wrote in message ...

] Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
> real life. How sad.


Difference is, in real life you don't have to put up with it like you do in
newsgroups if you want to read and post to them. There are many from this
group that would be invited to my house, and some that would be stabbed with
a fork on sight. LOL

Cheri

==


100% !!!!!!

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"Cheri" wrote in message news
"Casa de Masa" > wrote in message
news
> On 9/26/2017 7:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>
>
> Next time perhaps a fork to the grabby paw will drive the point home, heh,
> heh...


I should have read ahead. LOL

Cheri

==

I didn't see it either

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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in message ...

On 9/26/2017 9:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>
>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>
>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table. I find it
>>> disgusting. He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>> free for the grabbing.
>>
>> That would **** me off.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>

Seems some people have a sense of entitlement. My granddaughter got
married last Saturday. The reception was under a huge tent and typical
round tables. The champagne for the toast was provided by the groom's
grandmother. Near the end of the night she gave me one of the bottles
left over. I had it sitting on the table in front of me. Another guest
came along and just picked it up and started to walk away with it. He
got two steps. It was the end of the night and he was scavenging
anything he could.

==

Ugh! I am pleased you didn't let him get away with it

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On 9/27/2017 6:24 AM, Gary wrote:
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>>>> It does **** me off. I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>>>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate. I
>>>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>>
>>> A fork to the back of his hand would work too. ;-)
>>> Cheri
>>>
>>
>> What I really wanted to do was stab him with it. It happens far too
>> often. No one else in the group seems to think a thing about it. Duh!
>
> Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
> real life. How sad.
>
Sure he can. Just don't go out with the group of friends if he knows
this guy is going to be there.

I started avoiding going out to lunch with a group of woman I considered
friends at work for one reason. One woman was a notoriously demanding
customer and a notoriously bad tipper. She'd run a server off their
feet and then leave a quarter. It was embarrassing.

Wayne knows when these people are getting together. He can always
decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
everyone's plate is going to be there.

Jill

On 9/27/2017 11:15 AM, Cheri wrote:
> "Gary" > wrote in message
> ...
>
> ] Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
>> real life. How sad.
>
>
> Difference is, in real life you don't have to put up with it like you do
> in newsgroups if you want to read and post to them. There are many from
> this group that would be invited to my house, and some that would be
> stabbed with a fork on sight. LOL
>
> Cheri

Have fun storming the castle! What you can do in real life is just
avoid dining with that person. If it's a group thing, I'm pretty sure
he knows if the moocher is going to be there. And he did the right
thing in saying "NO, that's mine!". This guy should not be picking food
off of other plates. That's just weird.

Reminds me of the film portrayal of Helen Keller (Ann Bankroft, Patty
Duke)... I'm guessing this guy isn't a blind and deaf child, though.
Just rude and uncouth.

Don't eat with him or just plain put a stop to it.

Jill

On 9/28/2017 9:15 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> Wayne knows when these people are getting together.Â* He can always
> decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
> everyone's plate is going to be there.
>
> Jill

You do not know the dynamics of that group at large or who is tight with
whom.

If it's like RFC the side-alliances and bullshit sandbox games may be a
Gordian knot of idiotic human emotional deficits.

On 9/28/2017 9:21 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> Don't eat with him or just plain put a stop to it.
>
> Jill

Just like this!


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On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 10:16:05 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>
> Wayne knows when these people are getting together. He can always
> decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
> everyone's plate is going to be there.
>
> Jill
>
I still don't understand why he simply can't say NO!, push his hand
away, and/or move or cover his plate. It's really simple and he
won't or is incapable of correcting the situation. So what if it
****es the rude asshole off? Wayne is ****ed off because he does
this and probably is ****ed off at himself for not putting a stop
to it. Would he tolerate this behavior if a complete stranger in
the restaurant came over to their table and took a bite out of his
plate? Of course not.

Wayne, time to grow a backbone.

"jmcquown" > wrote in message
news
> On 9/27/2017 11:15 AM, Cheri wrote:
>> "Gary" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>
>> ] Wayne should just killfile him. Oh wait....you can't do that in
>>> real life. How sad.
>>
>>
>> Difference is, in real life you don't have to put up with it like you do
>> in newsgroups if you want to read and post to them. There are many from
>> this group that would be invited to my house, and some that would be
>> stabbed with a fork on sight. LOL
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Have fun storming the castle! What you can do in real life is just
> avoid dining with that person. If it's a group thing, I'm pretty sure he
> knows if the moocher is going to be there. And he did the right thing in
> saying "NO, that's mine!". This guy should not be picking food off of
> other plates. That's just weird.
>
> Reminds me of the film portrayal of Helen Keller (Ann Bankroft, Patty
> Duke)... I'm guessing this guy isn't a blind and deaf child, though. Just
> rude and uncouth.
>
> Don't eat with him or just plain put a stop to it.
>
> Jill


That would be my solution, life is too short to mingle with uncouth clods
either outside of your home, or inside of it.

Cheri

On 9/28/2017 11:51 AM, wrote:
> On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 10:16:05 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>>
>> Wayne knows when these people are getting together. He can always
>> decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
>> everyone's plate is going to be there.
>>
>> Jill
>>
> I still don't understand why he simply can't say NO!, push his hand
> away, and/or move or cover his plate.

He said he did. "he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.
I pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!"

And I say just don't go out with this group of people if you know he's
going to be there.

Jill

On 2017-09-28 11:15 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 9/27/2017 6:24 AM, Gary wrote:
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>

> I started avoiding going out to lunch with a group of woman I considered
> friends at work for one reason.Â* One woman was a notoriously demanding
> customer and a notoriously bad tipper.Â* She'd run a server off their
> feet and then leave a quarter.Â* It was embarrassing.


Oh gawd I know that feeling. I wrote here before about a member of the
extended family who treated the waiter assigned to the family as a
personal servant and every time he came back with her order she would
send him for something else and then he left and never came back. When
her mother took us out for supper, the only way you would ever get me
into a restaurant again, she kept changing her order. She initially
ordered fries, then a salad. She got the salad but said she had wanted
the fries as well. A couple minutes later she cancelled the order for
the fries. Then a few minutes later decided she did want them.

It is embarrassing to be at a table with someone like that. You know how
frustrating it must be for the server. The server can't say what they
are thinking. They have to smile and be nice.

>
> Wayne knows when these people are getting together.Â* He can always
> decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
> everyone's plate is going to be there.

Perhaps he enjoys the rest of the group enough that the one person does
not spoil the experience entirely, so long as he is not seated within
reach. There does seem to be a bit of a problem in that the rest of
them don't seem to mind it the way he does.

On 9/27/2017 9:03 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 9/26/2017 9:44 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Tue 26 Sep 2017 06:04:01p, Cheri told us...
>>
>>> "Wayne Boatwright" > wrote in message
>>>
>>>> We have one acquaintance who never fails to ask for, or often
>>>> simply takes, a bite of everyone's food at the table.Â* I find it
>>>> disgusting.Â* He seems to treat it as though it were a buffet,
>>>> free for the grabbing.
>>>
>>> That would **** me off.
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> It does **** me off.Â* I try to sit as far away from him as possible,
>> but once he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.Â* I
>> pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!".
>>
>
> Seems some people have a sense of entitlement.Â* My granddaughter got
> married last Saturday.Â* The reception was under a huge tent and typical
> round tables.Â* The champagne for the toast was provided by the groom's
> grandmother.Â* Near the end of the night she gave me one of the bottles
> left over. I had it sitting on the table in front of me.Â* Another guest
> came along and just picked it up and started to walk away with it.Â* He
> got two steps.Â* It was the end of the night and he was scavenging
> anything he could.

It's amazing what people will try to get away withh. I was given a nice
bottle of wine for my 23rd birthday by a co-worker. My [then] husband
threw me a birthday party. Some neighbors across the hall, whom I
didn't know except as nodding acquaintances, decided to crash the party.
I walked into the kitchen and found they had opened and were drinking
my birthday bottle of wine. From zero to ****ed off in 30 seconds flat!
Who the hell are you and why are you in my kitchen drinking my bottle
of wine? "OUT OUT OUT!" They fled.

People really don't want to make me angry.

Jill
Jill

On Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 11:39:30 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>
> On 9/28/2017 11:51 AM, wrote:
>
> > I still don't understand why he simply can't say NO!, push his hand
> > away, and/or move or cover his plate.
>
> He said he did. "he reached over to take a roll off of my bread plate.
> I pushed his hand away and said "sorry, that's mine!"
>
He needs to have a private word this jerk before they go into the
restaurant. If dumbass is already seated he needs to ask him to
step outside for a minute as he has something important to tell him.
Then he needs to tell him in no uncertain terms his rude and crude
behavior is stopping right now. Then he needs to threaten if he
sees his hand or fork coming toward his plate he will raise such a
ruckus the whole party will be asked to leave and never return again.

Sometimes just the threat of creating a scene that will get the
whole party tossed out on their ear is enough to get his message
across.
>
> And I say just don't go out with this group of people if you know he's
> going to be there.
>
> Jill
>
Fork boy would not keep me from enjoying a meal out with my friends.
He needs to amend his behavior pronto. It's gone on this long be-
cause the other namby-pamby diners have allowed it.

On 9/28/2017 10:55 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> the rest of them don't seem to mind it the way he does.


Were you personally THERE to verify that?

How the **** do you know?

Go away.

On 9/28/2017 10:57 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> I walked into the kitchen and found they had opened and were drinking my
> birthday bottle of wine.Â* From zero to ****ed off in 30 seconds flat!
> Â*Who the hell are you and why are you in my kitchen drinking my bottle
> of wine?Â* "OUT OUT OUT!"Â* They fled.
>
> People really don't want to make me angry.
>
> Jill
> Jill

Good for you...you!!!

On 9/28/2017 11:27 AM, wrote:
> Sometimes just the threat of creating a scene that will get the
> whole party tossed out on their ear is enough to get his message
> across.

I like the embarrassment angle, providing this lout is capable of being
made to feel stupid.

>Wayne, time to grow a backbone.

Unfortunately, Lil' Wayne's backbone is as limp as his wrists...

__
Best
Greg

On 9/28/2017 12:55 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2017-09-28 11:15 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 9/27/2017 6:24 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>
>
>> I started avoiding going out to lunch with a group of women I
>> considered friends at work for one reason.Â* One woman was a
>> notoriously demanding customer and a notoriously bad tipper.Â* She'd
>> run a server off their feet and then leave a quarter.Â* It was
>> embarrassing.
>
> Oh gawd I know that feeling. I wrote here before about a member of the
> extended family who treated the waiter assigned to the family as a
> personal servant>>
(snippage)

When we went out to lunch with her some of us were embarrassed by that
behaviour. We'd slip some money under the plate because really... a
quarter?! That was reason enough to avoid a lunch invitation that
included her. Just decline the invitation.

>> Wayne knows when these people are getting together.Â* He can always
>> decline the invitation if he knows the guy who is mooching off
>> everyone's plate is going to be there.
>
> Perhaps he enjoys the rest of the group enough that the one person does
> not spoil the experience entirely, so long as he is not seated within
> reach.Â* There does seem to be a bit of a problem in that the rest of
> them don't seem to mind it the way he does.
>
Beats me. I don't know these people. I do think someone might have
told this guy off by now. Or stabbed him with a fork. LOL Or perhaps,
simply told him he's no longer welcome as a moocher.

Jill