32 Food Service Workers Describe The Awkward, Ridiculous Dates They’ve Waited On

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Dating is tough. You meet a nice person, you ask them out for coffee, or dinner, and you two try to find common ground with each other. Do you click? Is there chemistry? If not, oh god, aren’t we grasping at anything that comes into our heads? What if you’re married and you’re dating someone else? What if your partner finds out about your adultery? What then? If you’re at a restaurant, don’t worry. Your servers will be right with you. Care to read more? Check out this Reddit thread for more ridiculous stories.

1. Can you believe this guy?

The favorite date I ever got to see was a super hot chick and a pretty good looking guy. they ordered tons of drinks, several apps, two steak dinners and a lobster, then dessert. At this point the guy excuses himself to go to the bathroom. The dessert shows up and the girl waits for him to comeback from the bathroom. 10 minutes go by and she asks one of the busboys to check the restroom. The guy had bailed on her and left the check for her. All of that was about $150. She started crying, it was awful. Most of the waitstaff tossed in to cover the bill and one of the waitresses gave her a ride home. The guy was banned from the place and we got to toss him out 2 times trying to come back with other dates.

2. The kids are not alright

I used to wait on this guy and a woman who would come in and sit in the bar area every now and then. A great couple, always very sweet to each other like they were newly in love. They always ordered the same drinks, split an app and tipped very well. One day I saw him in the restaurant on a very busy Friday night and I immediately start in with a friendly, “HEY!” and see that he’s not eagerly smiling back. He’s in the booth with a woman that I’ve never seen before who is looking over the menu leisurely, sitting across from 2 energetic kids asking their dad if they can have chocolate milk. It was beyond awkward. I have no idea why he’d bring his family to he and his mistress’s favorite restaurant, but I didn’t feel comfortable waiting on them and transferred the table.

3. Waitress deserves a huge tip

At a bar with amazing burgers only a couple blocks from my house. I’m sitting there with my date, having a pleasant evening. Next table over 40ish guy with 30ish gal. Both are very smiley, both are very affectionate (nothing weird, just lots of hand holding, her fixing his hair a couple times, couple quick kisses). They finish up when we’re midway through our meal. Less than 5 min after they leave he comes back, slips on the ol’ wedding band, and in walks woman closer to his age. They kiss, sit and begin talking about their day. All conversation between my date and I has stopped as we just eat and give each other wide eyed side glances. Waitress comes over, gives a hesitant hello, recovers and successfully hides her own shock.

4. Two-timin’

My boss / head server of the restaurant I work at had a similar story.

She had a guy who would always come in with a lady and get a specific bottle of wine; very predictable. One night, she went to greet her table and noticed it was the same guy, so she started off with “Hey there! A bottle of Juan Gil tonight?” Then, she noticed he was with a different woman than usual, and he apparently gave her some non-verbal cues. She tried to play it off by adding something like “I just love recommending that one, it’s one of my favorites!” I don’t think she ever asked or found out which one was the mistress, or if that was even the situation.

Even I had a similar awkward situation one time. As I went to greet a table of two, I recognized the guy had just come in recently (just a few days back), and I said something like “Hey, you look familiar!” Then I turned to the girl. Silence. I clearly remembered he had come in with a brunette last time, and this time he was with a blonde. I smiled awkwardly and changed the subject. He left me a pretty bad tip, so I think I might’ve ruined his date accidentally. Not sure if he was cheating, or casually dating and stopped seeing the previous girl, or if one of the girls was just his sister, or what, but yep it was pretty awkward.

5. Dine and dash

I used to be a waitress in a diner. One day a young man comes in and sits down. He’s smiling nervously. I go over and ask him what he wants to drink. He says water, and I go get it. When I drop it off and try to take his order, he tells me he’s not ready to order because he’s waiting for someone. Ok, I say, and wait for his joiner.

After about 10 minutes, he confesses to me that he was meeting a girl there. So he could break up with her. He was the only customer in the place at the time, and I immediately thought ‘oh no!’ And wondered how this girl would take it.

A few minutes later, here she comes. She’s smiling, SUPER happy to see him, and comes and sits down as if its her best day ever. I felt awful. I knew in just a few minutes, her whole day is going to shit. It was awful.

She orders him a sandwich, and something for herself. He didn’t want the food, but she was kind of insistent. So, right after I drop off the food, the hammer drops. She’s upset, crying, etc. She tried very hard to keep it together in light of what was being told to her.

After about 30 minutes, he gets up and leaves. She spends a minute collecting herself, and then comes to the register to pay. FOR BOTH MEALS. Yep, he broke up with her, and left her with the bill.

I looked at her teary red eyes and told her to forget it. I paid for it. I just couldn’t bear to watch her pay for his meal.

6. Don’t yell at waiters

I was waiting on a couple once, had to be a first date. The guy was constantly a dick to me, and the girl was very apologetic. He asked for a well done filet mignon, when I started to advise him that it would be burnt as such and to ask if he’d like it butterflied, he he flipped his shit yelling “you don’t tell me how I like my steak!”

She got up, pulled out a $20, handed it to me, and walked out without a word. He shouted after her to come back, didn’t even get up till she was out the front door though. What a douchenozzle.

7. Red flag?

My sister worked as a waitress at a very classy restaurant.

When a couple came in the girl went to the washroom and the guy pulled my sister aside and told her he was planning to propose so to bring out dessert at the end even if they didn’t order one. My sister let him know she could get the cooks to do something nice for him.

As the time was coming around almost all of the workers in the restaurant knew what was about to happen. The cooks got a huge plate with a white chocolate brownie and wrote “will you marry me?” on it. All of the cooks were trying their best to watch but not be obvious, as was all of the waiters.

My sister brought out the plate and the girl was sitting on her phone as the plate was put in front of her and the boyfriend pulled out the ring. My sister didn’t say anything and slowly backed away.

The boyfriend said the girls name but she just said hold on and kept texting on her phone. The restaurant got pretty quiet as all the servers were waiting for her response to the proposal and people saw him pull out a ring, but she didn’t notice and took another minute before finally looking up.

By then the boyfriend was pretty upset and let down, but forced a smile and proposed. She got all happy and said yes, but my sister said the boyfriend looked pretty pissed and embarrassed and once everyone was back to work and eating she could see them arguing.

8. Bubbles gone flat

I tend bar at a nice restaurant. Once I had a couple come in and sit down, celebrating something. (New job or something) She ordered a champagne by the glass. “No, no” he said and ordered one of our better champagnes by the bottle. He spent about $150 on it. The couple was enjoying their first course. When I went back down the bar to check on them she was sobbing. He looked mad. I turned around and left them alone. Pretty soon, he stepped away to the bathroom and while he was gone, she got her purse and left. He came back and canceled the main courses, paid his bill, left me the rest of the bottle (75% full) and a $100 tip on a $170 check. He left. I never found out what happened. The champagne was delicious.

9. Oh. Oh…OH…

I’m a bartender at a major chain restaurant. A couple stumbles in about 15 minutes before close. They’re talking loudly and sit at the bar. I’m a little pissed off so I finish wiping down the bottles before acknowledging them. I can hear everything they’re saying but it’s all very coded language so I have no clue what they’re fighting about.

“No, you said you were going to take the train,” the man says. “You promised me three times!”

“I can’t I can’t, I just can’t do it,” the woman says.

When I turn around and ask them what they would like to drink the man orders 10 shots of the strongest liqueur we have (which is Rumplemintz). I tell him I can’t serve that many shots to just two people.

He says, “There’s three of us. I’m trying to make it two people,” and pulls out a $100.00 bill and lays it on the bar.

10. You fucked up

I once saw a date go straight to hell before it even started.

Guy comes into the bar at lunch time, orders a beer for himself and a glass of wine “For my girl, she’s on the way.” The guy was in his mid thirties, but he was giddy as a school girl waiting for his girlfriend. Then all of the sudden I notice he has a look of fear and dread smacked all over his face. So I ask him if everything is ok, and he responds:

“My girlfriend is gonna be here any minute and my wife’s best friend just sat down over there in the dining room.”

11. Pay it forward

A few years ago I was waiting tables at a big chain restaurant and I had a couple come in with their newborn baby sometime around 9:00pm. Right off the bat, I could tell that they were having a rough day. They bickered in whispers across the table until finally the girl got up, grabbed the baby, and stormed out of the restaurant. The poor boyfriend just sat their with his head in his hands, looking completely deflated.

I headed to get the guy some to-go boxes and a customer who had been sitting nearby waves me over. The customer says he just saw the movie “Pay it Forward” and he’s inspired. He pays the couples’ entire bill and leaves without recognition or thanks.

I’ll never forget the change in the deserted boyfriend’s expression when I told him about the kindness of that stranger, I’m pretty sure it was the only good thing that happened to him that day.

12. Worst time for cold feet

I know this isn’t a restaurant story, but it’s relevant.

I used to work at a store where I sold wedding gowns. Every bride/couple we met had a different story. You could usually tell the people who were serious and if the fiance/family came with the bride, you could really get a feel for the relationship.

Anyway, a typical appointment lasts from one to two hours depending on how many dresses they want to try on. So, this one particular Saturday, we were having a sale. So it was going to be very crowded. Each consultant worked with one MAYBE two brides, but no more than that. Once you were done with a customer, you’d get assigned another one. So, my first bride of the day is a customer who I’d worked with before – let’s call her Jane.

It’s not unusual for a bride to come in and plan on coming back with friends or family to give a second opinion. So I get her set up in the fitting room and start pulling dresses for her. We try on all of the dresses she’d previously tried on and she was still indecisive. So I ask her what she likes, what she doesn’t like, etc. and go pull more dresses.

Two hours pass. Then three. Then four. She just wasn’t making a decision. She kept calling her fiance and talking to him. I only heard her end of the conversation and, while there weren’t any obvious alarm bells, I did think the conversations were odd. They didn’t seem happy and excited.

So we keep trying on different dresses and veils. My manager even came in to see if she could assist. Nope. I’d been on my feet all day – no lunch break, no bathroom break – all working with this one bride. Finally, after hour 7, her fiance shows up. They FINALLY pick a dress.

I get the dress and veil information and take them to the cash register.

Jane and her fiance stand at the register and – in the time it took to walk over to the register, there was palpable tension. I just went about going through the process because I didn’t know what else to do.
After one minute of the tensest silence I’d ever sat through, he turns to Jane and blurts “I can’t do this.”

She just stares at him. I “become busy” with something behind the counter, but am totally right there. Jane starts crying and says, “What?”

Her fiance says “I can’t do this. I don’t want to marry you.” And he leaves. Jane and I are left standing there, I’m not entirely sure what to say, I ask if she’d like some tissue and she just shakes her head no and leaves.

Easily the most awkward breakup I’ve witnessed.

13. Throuple

I used to wait tables at wedding receptions. Once another waiter and I caught a couple having sex downstairs near the storeroom and promptly advised them to return upstairs to the party.

As the night wore on, it became clear that the gentleman we had caught was there with his wife and the woman he was boning was a close friend of said wife. Later in the night, the woman broke down in tears, clearly upset by the mistake she had made, only to be comforted by the wife, who then asked me to call them a cab as the friend was, “too sad to go home alone tonight.”

The husband looked sheepish as fuck until the cab arrived, at which point he took his wife and his mistress home for the night.

14. Goddamn, that tension

A couple on a date, sitting having a meal and chatting, just a normal date. A guy comes in who turns out to be the woman’s soon-to-be ex-husband and, at first, justs asks to talk to her. She refuses. He asks louder and she refuses louder. Lather, rinse, repeat, getting louder. The man on the date stands up and tries to calm the ex-husband down. He starts screeching at him and her and everyone around. The ex-husband sweeps all the food and drinks off the table on to the floor and wants to fight the male date. A nearby waiter steps forward to try to calm the ex-husband down. He takes a swing at the waiter. GAME ON!

All the other waiters surround the guy, drag him to the ground and drag him out of the restaurant. Ex-husband is screaming profanities as he’s being dragged out, woman on date is sitting in silence.

All is calm after the ex-husband is dragged out. After a few seconds of stunned silence the woman on the date smiles nicely to her date and says, “So,… Do you like movies? Have you seen any good ones lately?”

15. Double date gone right

I’m happy to say I saw the opposite when I was bartending. Had a couple guys who were regulars every Friday night. One night they come in with a couple girls – double date! Pretty soon the girls were there with them most Fridays. Fast-forward about a year, we were closing the restaurant early to go to one of the couple’s wedding.

16. Scumbag “adorkable” boyfriend

I work at a semi fancy kind of place and when prom rolled around I had this one super adorkable couple sit at one of my tables and everything was going great for them until at the end of the meal (they both had a big steak entree) I offered if either would like dessert.

The guy said no thanks and the girl said she wanted some bread pudding. This guy then says “wow” and just stared at her. I could feel the waves of mortification emanating from her body. The poor girl. She just instantly shut down and stared into her lap.

I felt so bad for her and then she gets up and walks away. I stared at this kid, wanting to tell him what a little shit he is. But instead I said, “wow, that was insensitive, you just ruined her whole night” he says nothing and he pays and leaves. No tip. But it was worth it.

17. Divorce rendezvous

I worked at a restaurant for 7 years. In that time I had a couple who were regulars (came in about once or twice a week). I waited on them for probably a year and a half and then they just stopped coming in. A couple of months later they came in with two other men. They continued to come in for about a month. Didn’t see them again for another few months and then the guy starts coming in with different women. Finally got curious enough to ask him what had happened. Turns out, he and his wife got a divorce and were meeting at the restaurant with their lawyers to work out the details. It was pretty strange.

18. Champagne Kisses

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I have two stories that I have been dying to tell:

1. I had man come in for dinner (I work in a four star restaurant) sweating bullets from the time he sat down. He and the lady were obviously a couple and the entire staff guessed what would happen, especially after he ordered a $300.00 bottle of champagne to start the meal. She looked happy, but worried through the entire meal. When the dessert came he got down on one knee and I heard her say, “Please don’t.” Those two words stopped MY heart, I cannot imagine what this poor dude was going through. They had a hushed conversation and she ran out, literally ran, while he sat there still holding an open ring box. He finished the bottle of wine they had ordered during dinner, and pretty wasted turned to me and asked, “Why won’t she let me love her?” Just like that. Like I am going to give him some kind of answer to explain the complex and painful thing that has just happened. I told him that sometimes we fall in love with the wrong people, and the only people worth anyone’s time are the ones who give back what they get. He finished the bottle, paid his tab and walked slowly to the parking garage. I never saw him again.
2. I used to wait tables at a Bob Evans that was located across the street from a nursing home. Whoever chose that location was a genius because old people love the shit out of Bob Evans. I had an elderly couple who came in every day for lunch and ordered the same thing. It got to the point that they I would have their meal on the table by the time I saw them crossing the street from the window. (They usually only got applesauce/banana bread/mashed potatoes.) One day the old man came in alone after a week of absence. He never said it, but I knew she had died. He still ordered for her, and let the food sit on her side of the table. Every. Day. I cried more than one time delivering it. I hope one day my future husband loves me that much.

19. Burn

A guy came in with a woman who was apparently the “other” woman. His girlfriend came in and threw lye on him. We had to evacuate the store.

20. Worst joke ever

Blind date. Guy made a joke (in front of me) about needing the get the girl drunk…she got up and walked away.

21. Being chaste

I used to waitress at this Thai Restaurant and we were a date hotspot. One night this guy and gal come in (mid 30s) and sit down at a booth on the same side. Cute. I come over, take their orders, and throughout the night they’re completely flirty and it’s clear this is only their second, maybe third date from the questions they’re asking each other. Anyway, towards the end of their meal I hear him say in a much louder voice than he had been using all night, “What do you mean you’re waiting till marriage?!” He takes his arm from around the girl as he’s saying it. She gets this sassy look on her face that’s just priceless and says, “Is that a problem?” He literally spends the rest of the night trying to convince her in this pleading/informative tone why having sex before getting married is normal and healthy. She would have none of it. They ended up paying separately and left through different doors.

22. Creeper duty

Every 2 weeks, like clockwork, this sleazy guy would frequent the Mexican food/cantina joint that my brother worked at and he would have a different girl (half his age) with him every time. You probably know the type of guy he was, somewhat wealthy, divorced, totally full of himself dude in his 40’s. He would keep the cheap margaritas flowing in hopes of bringing home these girls as his latest conquest and, if the girl wasn’t responding, he wouldn’t hesitate to hit on the the female staff any chance he got. Since my brother was one of the few dudes on staff, he ended up on “creeper duty” and would often be the one waiting on this guy and his dates.

Well, eventually, my brother noticed he was bringing the same woman in for a few consecutive visits. He seemed to mellow out a little and actually seemed to really be into this new woman.

Then one night, shit hit the fan. My brother was bringing out their drinks when he noticed they seemed to be having an argument. The night got worse and eventually the woman got up mid enchilada, went out for a smoke, made some calls and waited out front until someone came and picked her up.

Sleazeguy spent the next half hour sitting in front of his plate of tacos, desperately on the phone looking progressively more depressed. As my brother was collecting the money for the meal, the guy said something along the lines of “Don’t even bother with women, kid. They’ll just break you.” That was the last time they saw him.

23. She was into candy

I’m not sure whether this exactly fits or not but I’ll share anyway. I used to work in a bar (though we had a restaurant too) & there was a girl who used to come in Thur-Sun nights, she had greasy hair & always wore a red wrap over top without a bra which she thought showed her boobs off. (it didn’t) she came in with her Mum each of those 4 nights every week. Her Mum would then go up to lads & ask them to have a drink with her daughter ‘because she’s lovely’, sometimes they would but never stayed long. She was always nice enough to staff. One night it had been busy but was fairly quiet so I was out getting the glasses in (to give the glass collector a hand) & I overheard her telling this guy she masturbated with a mars bar & ate it. The guy made his excuses & left. The Mum who’d been watching, came over & asked what happened. The daughter said “I don’t know” to which her Mum replied “Did you tell him about the Mars bar?” & she nodded & they both wondered what went wrong. After a few months they stopped coming in. Weird as fuck!

24. Moving back

Somewhat related, I helped open a chain place and the second day this couple came in and requested me. I had never seen them before in my life. They sit down and I throw out my pitch about our most expensive drinks. Fast forward 20 minutes, they’re sitting there talking and sipping their drinks when a coworker of mine comes over and occasionally flirts with me outside and at work. They ask how long we had been dating and jokingly we say we’re engaged.. They believe it.

They come in all the time after that requesting one of us then next time requesting the other. The coworker and I had actually been talking for some time and were considering dating soon until she got news that she had to move.

Fast forward a month later, she moves and the couple comes in, they ask for her and she’s not there so they throw the joke that they’ll “settle for me”. They ask where my “fiance” is and I tell them that things didn’t go as planned and that she moved back home. The couple looks very sad and says that they were sorry for what had happened. At the end of the meal I walk over to the table and they had left me a $75 dollar tip with a note saying “Sorry things didn’t go as planned, keep your head up though. You’ll find someone.”

I feel like a total dick about the whole situation but for the record.. I was really upset that she was moving back home.

25. Lay off her, she’s starving!

I once waited on a first date, that had met online. It seemed to be going well, they had drinks and ordered their food. When I brought the food they commented on the large portions (the place I worked was an American style diner/cocktail bar in London so fair point).

When I came back for their plates, the guy comments that his date ate a lot. I kinda laughed and said something about the food being really good, so I’m not surprised. He goes “No, like.. This girl (pointing) barely chewed. She inhaled her meal. And some of mine! HAHAHA!” At that point the girl looked rather annoyed but still had a polite smile on her face.

I went to check on them a while later and the guy seems completely oblivious to the fact that his date doesn’t like his sense of humor. He orders himself a beer, and comments that whilst his date seems to loooove food, she’s not much of a drinker. At that point, the girl looks like she wants to stab the guy. She tells me they’re about ready for the bill. Guy goes, “Are you really not going to have any pudding? Are you suuuure?”

As they left I heard the girl tell him that he didn’t have to walk her to her train. He looked utterly confused.

26. Milk…

I was working for a little mom and pop type Italian restaurant, and it was going to close in about 30 minutes, so I was the only server left in the shop. This couple ambles on in, heading straight for the back room, and right away I can tell that something is weird. The guy is asking me to turn down the lights to make it more “romantic,” and when I take their drink orders, she orders a glass of wine and he orders a glass of milk. I had been there for about 5 months, and we had milk for people to put in their coffee if they asked for it, but I had never had a single customer, child or adult, ask me for a glass of milk. I bring them out their drinks and take their orders, and when I return to bring them their dinner salads, the guy asked for another glass of milk. It’s not exactly important to the story, but it was one of the clues to why he was so weird. Anyway, I bring him his milk, and eventually bring out their entrees. The guy was going on and on about how he wanted this to be romantic because they hadn’t seen each other in ages, and how he works at hooters and this place is way more romantic, blah blah blah, so I leave them alone, although in the back of my mind I was REALLY hoping they weren’t going to have sex in the restaurant.

So I’m in the front room rolling silverware, when suddenly I hear glass shattering and the woman storms out. I ran back to the room to see the guy standing there looking pissed, but whatever, now I have to clean up the wine glass that the bitch smashed. He proceeds to tell me that he thought everything was going really well, but when he told her what he had been up to in the past few years, she yelled, “I don’t wanna know who you fuck!” threw the glass on the ground, and ran out. To be fair, as a lady, this is not something I would really care to hear, either. I finish cleaning up the broken glass and tell the guy his total (it was around $40), and watch him throw cash on the table including my $2 tip (seriously? 5% after all of the trouble you’ve caused?) and THEN he goes, “hey, you seem like a cool chick and you’re pretty. You wanna go out sometime? I’m Justin, the drummer from Sevendust.”

What??

You just told me that you work at HOOTERS.

You left me a 5% tip.

You just bombed this date and I watched.

The drummer for Sevendust is Morgan Rose.

“Um…no thanks.”

27. Flipping a table

During a shift once another waiter had a table with a couple who slowly started getting louder. They just kept having mini outbursts. Enough that people knew that there was a fight going on, but not enough that everyone was staring yet. Then seemingly out of nowhere, shortly after receiving their food, the dude flips the table, with food and drinks and all, on to her.

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He then walks out of the store leaving her covered in steak, baked potatoes, and margaritas. She’s just sitting there in shock for a good minute before my manager went over to help her get cleaned up. He then comp’ed their meal and she left with an incredibly embarrassed look on her face. Felt immensely bad for her.

28. I guess she was an environmentalist

My waitress saw it once. I was at an expensive steakhouse in NYC, and was out with a girl that I thought was going to be the one. We had a decent date, we were finishing up with dinner and she looked at me and said, “alloftheproblems, sometimes I’m embarassed to be seen with you. I really love you, but you’re not my type of guy.” I kind of sat there with a WTF look on my face.

I’m a normal guy, have tattoos, dress decently. She was what you could call a “hipster” and insanely depressed. I guess I wasn’t supposed to be upset with what she said after I just dropped $250 on dinner.

She excused herself to the bathroom and my waitress came over and said she heard everything and couldn’t believe what she heard and kept apologizing for this girl she didn’t even know. It kind of broke my heart, she came back from the bathroom and we went out, got back in the car and drove back to the Bronx. She acted like nothing ever happened. That night when she went to sleep I packed my bags and haven’t seen her since.

29. Leave a tip

I used to wait tables, and I fancied myself a pretty good waiter.

One night, a couple walks in to the restaurant; the gentleman had made a reservation because it was a special evening (I’m guessing an anniversary). As I show the couple their table, the gentleman pulls me aside and again reinforces the special nature of the evening. I assure him, “Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you.” He replied, “And I’ll take care of you back.” Totally unnecessary, of course, but it’s always good to know when a patron appreciates good service.

So I took care of the guests. I put on my best waiter airs and acted as formally as possible. “Very good selection, sir.” “Would miss care for more wine?” Etc. They were loving it! And I was enjoying giving good service and making this couple feel special on their special occasion.

For the coup de grace, I brought out a dessert … free of charge. Surprise! It was a perfect way for them to cap off their special evening.

When he paid, though, he left a $5 tip … on a $100 bill.

As the couple approached the exit, I went up to the gentleman and pulled him aside. “Excuse me, sir. Was there anything wrong with the meal?” I asked. “No, no. It was all good, man,” he replied and turned to leave. But his girlfriend was in earshot and she understood what was going on.

“Why? How much did he leave?” She asked. Not wanting to be gauche, I just looked at her and shrugged. She saw the check in my hand and grabbed it and opened it up. Her eyes went wide.

“You cheap-ass motherfucker. What is wrong with you?” She asked him. “Here. Take this, I’m terribly sorry.” She pulled a $20 out of her purse and handed it to me, then went back to berating her man as they left the restaurant. Yep. I ruined their anniversary, and I did it on purpose.

30. The glory of online dating

I used to work at Bennigans and one Sunday afternoon in strolls a fat ginger girl wearing scrubs (Found out later not in the medical profession) and an average looking guy. From the get go this girl was completely ridiculous ordering everything with ranch dressing and snapping her fingers in the air and yelling “Server” when she wanted my attention. Needless to say the guy had no idea what he was in for. Around 20 minutes after they had sat down I was checking out another table when the guy runs up to me and asks to promptly be checked out. I hand him the tab for $38 and he quickly hands me $60 and his exiting phrase I found priceless. “So I met this girl online and she looks completely nothing like her picture.. I could let that part go but I’ve also discovered she’s fat, and a cunt so I’m gonna get the hell out of here before she gets back”. While he was leaving the front doors I noticed she was just returning from the restroom. When she discovered he was driving out of the parking lot (Front windows could see the parking lot) She proceeded to throw a complete tantrum and demand I box her food for her. Once the food was boxed she waddled her scrubs out of Bennigans leaving nothing but a table covered with spilled ranch dressing. The kind of mess you’d expect to see a group of 7 year olds leave.

31. Just hit record

I work in a sports bar/burger joint. Last week a woman came in and wanted to sit on the patio which was odd on account of it still being in the high 90s despite being well after sundown. She sat down and ordered a Long Island iced tea and a water while she waited on one more person. A few minutes her SO showed up and immediately complained it was too hot and wanted to move inside. They pick themselves out a booth and as he is ordering a beer the woman slips me a $20. I bring his beer over and she asks me to take a picture of them and hands me her phone. I noticed her phone was set to video not picture and asked if she wanted me to change it. “Just hit the button” she says. Once the filming starts she stands up, yells “don’t you ever come to my house or talk to me again” as she throws both her drinks in his surprised face. I handed her the phone and she walked out the door.

32. Ice cream solves everything

Well, I got to witness a marriage proposal turn into a screaming match and watch a relationship fall apart all in a matter of 90 minutes or so. They had started dining, there was a note from the hostess that he’d be proposing, everyone was happy and everything was going alright. He popped the question about halfway through dinner and she was ecstatic, next time I checked on them she was on the phone calling everyone she knew, telling the parents, describing the ring, etc. Then things took a turn without warning. I came back to check on them, she was getting very hostile and asking him questions about “Her” and “Who the fuck does she think she is?”. At some point I overheard hear talking about his “Private Condo” and prying into his life to find out what he was doing with a condo that, from what I could tell, she didn’t even know about. I was able to piece together that he had been cheating on her whenever he left town, he had a girl staying in this fancy condo, but was “Going to end it.”… of course. Anyway, by the end of the dinner she had thrown the ring back at his face, told him to fuck off in several different ways (And languages), and then immediately turned her attention to me after he left. At that point she filled me in on everything that had happened and drunkenly explained that she’s better off without him. I just stood there wide-eyed, not wanting to walk away, nodded my head, and brought her dessert out.

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