Was this rude?
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- creative-0
So I was in a Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and said: "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds."
I said: "Waiter, I asked for aromatic duck."
- somatica0
The waiter should have smiled and said;
"But of course. And I trust you'll be tipping correctly then?!"- See! Zesty!TheBlueOne
- I didn't want to sound like a dick so I deleted the last part that read something like "... for putting up with your shit"somatica
- mikotondria30
What you said wasn't rude from your telling of it, of course we only have the actual words, and a little background on the emotional context. Body language up to and during the encounter would have been a big factor, eg was there good eye contact up to this point, was everyone, including the waiter relaxed enough for this humor to be (a) a bonding moment, or (b( more easily interpreted as a form of subtle aggression based on the server/served heirarchy ? It seems that you intended it to be harmless or (a), but it was taken as (b), which may or may not have been outside your control.
Either way, you can reasonably most encounters like these to be taken as (a) because you're the bloody customer, and it would have been obvious by all the exchanges surrounding your joke that it was harmless and that to deliberately misinterpret it was just being a dick on his part.
People come into a restaurant and joke around all the time, you have to suck it up and give people the benefit of the doubt unless they are obviously being rude which you weren't. That's your job, that you voluntarily go to everyday - if you don't like it, get another job is my advice to this server.
I don't think how you behaved was, according to your telling of it, rude - and I wouldn't let this incident stop you trying to be lighthearted in the future.- And I was really apologetic afterwards. I meant to be playful and it came across as a bit rude...TheBlueOne
- Long-winded but +1Sandman_1982
- Witt0
It should have been:
"How would you like that cooked?"
"Correctly." I said with a straight face. Than I laughed and said, "Sorry.. wrong thread..."
- 23kon0
your fillet got rubbed up and down his ass crack
- DaveO0
You were a dick. End of.
"I'm paying your wages so I can treat you how I like and make you look a cock in front of my mates while you run around after me?"
No no. How many times do we moan when clients do that?
- megE0
at least you tipped him
it depends on what type of restaurant you were in, how his night had gone so far... etc.
i bartended sports bars all the way through college - so my thresh hold for sarcasm and assholeish comments from men is really high. this waiter was just soft - should have told him to grow a pair ;)
- drgss0
i dont think its funny
*straight face
- SlashPeckham0
was he french?
- watchit nowsputnik2
- Yes. It was a french restuarant in fact.TheBlueOne
- there you go he was a prick. not that french are pricks. i like french.jimzyk
- chossy0
TheBlueone you are going to have a sore throat in a couple of days, and your lips are going to go radge likesey.
- sputnik20
it would've been rude if you had said it with a straight face and then ignored him. as you did it (w/the just kidding) it was a joke. apparently, the waiter was mirthless.
- Mimio0
It was funny.
What's unfunny is when you are the waiter and have to ask even though you know it's intended to be medium rare. Customers are retarded and ask for for it medium and medium well.
- moth0
He can't of been French.
The French know that a good steak is cooked rare. Medium doesn't come into it.
- morilla0
No, it wasn't rude. He was just a jaded prick ass waiter.
- flavorful0
Well it's better than this (former) associate who when I was taking a team out to dinner asked for his steak, "Still breathing", but then did the straight face and never acted like he was kidding.
I just kind of gave him a "double-you-tee-eff mate?" stare until he said "Medium-Rare please" after the obviously confused and busy waitress looked about as perplexed as me.
I think the only time I've done this kind of ordering is just blotto drunk at diners when asked how I want my eggs I'll occasionally go, "fertilized." Which doesn't even really make any sense either to be honest, but at least it's like 4 in the morning and I'm not expected to make any type of sense.
- Granted we weren't necessarily in a high spirits kind of atmosphere either, haha.flavorful