You Never Know What Someone’s Going Through
Once I went to a place known for its Cuban sandwiches with my family. We were all really excited, because we like food in my family.
So we get our drinks and everything seems fine. We were seated immediately and everyone was really nice. Our waitress brings us our drinks and says she’ll be back in a bit to take our food orders.
We’re conversing and such so we don’t notice immediately how long it is taking for our waitress to come back.
We wait another twenty minutes just in case. The place is pretty empty, so eventually we ask another server if they know what happened to our server.
He says he’ll go check, but that he’ll take our food orders if we’re ready to speed up the process. Things seem on the up and up, so we stop worrying.
About 45 minutes later my dad is about to explode. It doesn’t take that long to make 4 sandwiches. He’s about to go complain when, as if on cue, our waitress comes running and screaming out of the kitchen and goes right on out the front door.
Everyone goes completely silent and just watches the front door for a couple seconds.
It turns out she had a nervous breakdown right about when we ordered her food. She had been just pacing around in the kitchen slowly becoming unhinged.
The manager apologized and we got free sandwiches.
The moral of the story though, is that you never know what is going on with your server. Maybe they’re going a bad job, but they might be on the edge of snapping entirely.