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“I was a relatively new server on a busy Friday night. The man showed up first to get a table and a drink while he waited for his blind date. He has a drink over 45 minutes and orders an appetizer. The food and his date arrive around the same time, and things start going sideways. The initial greeting was friendly and what you would expect a first date ‘hello’ to be. She excuses herself to the bathroom, and her date’s mood changes dramatically. He tells me she looks nothing like her pictures, and he’s being catfished. She returns from the bathroom, and the date continues. She orders our baked haddock, which comes with an almond rice pilaf and seasoned broccoli. Her date excuses himself to the bathroom, only for her to inform me that he is not the man in the pictures and he is rude. He returns and orders another drink to go with dinner.”
“Their meals arrive, and she starts making faces. I go over to check in and see how I can help. She yells at me that her steaming fish is cold. I apologize and bring it back to the kitchen and inform my manager. We get her meal fixed, and I bring it back out to her. She scoops up a forkful of rice and flings it at me because she cannot find any almonds in the almond rice pilaf. There was no pleasing these two, so my manager took over the table, offered them dessert, and promptly took care of the check. It’s been 15 years, and I remember it like it was yesterday.”
—Anonymous, 34; Maine
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