Stupid Guest Tricks

I’ve lost track of how many times I think I’m jaded only to be surprised by new rude, stupid and selfish behavior.

I knew Friday night was going to be a bad shift when one woman at a table showed that she just didn’t understand where she was or what she was doing. Apparently she had a daiquiri before and knew she liked that, but wanted to try something else but just didn’t know how.

“Can you make the Tropical Martini into a daiquiri?” She asked.

There are so many things wrong with that question I didn’t know where to start. I think she was using the word daiquiri to mean any frozen drink, but a daiquiri isn’t always frozen. It’s just a rum based drink with rum, lime and sweetener, and martinis are made with vodka and gin so no you cant make a martini into a daiquiri, they’re two entirely separate things. It’s like asking if you can make an apple pie into a chocolate cake.

Rather than give a lecture explaining why what she was asking for was infantile I said no as politely as I could and suggested another drink.

She didn’t like my suggestion and her follow up question was, “Is the Typhoon Punch a daiquiri?”

She was totally like a kid with just one little word that she though she knew the meaning of, which she clearly didn’t, and that was all she could say. How do you answer that question without sounding condescending? The best I could come up with was, “No Ma’am, it’s a punch.”

I tried to get her to tell me what she was looking for so that maybe I could suggest a drink for her, but she just didn’t have the words to explain what she wanted. It reminded me a lot of trying to pull information out of my niece and nephew when they were little and didn’t have the vocabulary to tell you what they needed.

I thought that would be it for the weekend…

The first time I had a table that was hanging out and two out of the three of them had paid. Another table sat down and needed to be greeted and twice while I was talking to another table came over, interrupted me, talked over me tell me that one of his friends needed change that instant because they suddenly had to leave.

This guy didn’t even blink as he was being extremely rude to my other table, twice. He seemed like it was my fault for slowing them up even though I had been by the table twice and the third guy was so busy talking on his phone that he hadn’t bothered to pay his check. Seriously, how rude is that?

I really worry about where we’re going as a country. Put aside that none of these little Einsteins knew how to tip (Daiquiri girl left me $2 on $67, interrupting guy left me $1.30 on $23.70, and suddenly-in-a-hurry-to-get-his-$3-back guy didn’t leave anything) what does it say about our culture? These are some of the extreme examples but it seems to me that ignorance and selfishness seems to be the driving forces for a large portion of society.