KFC didn't deny it until after they reviewed the security footage, did they? Their first reaction was a public apology.

Sometimes I even take out my phone to look up a fact that neither my dining companion and I can think of at the time. Horror! Of course I always put the phone down when the waitperson comes around.

I'm so tired of all the comments that assume I never talk to the person I'm with because I'm on my phone (a. I can multitask, b. we see each other literally every day, we're not dying to converse every second we're out), assume I must tip like an asshole, assume I make unreasonable demands, all because I happen to…

I am REALLY confused by this. Can somebody (you, hopefully, but maybe anybody else who's hating on this) please tell me why it makes you so ragey if I take a couple of pics of a particularly interesting or visually beautiful dish?

The sheer rage over food photography alone! Some people really appreciate plating, chefs put a lot of work into good plating. I enjoy practicing it myself, because eating something that looks nice feels better than eating out of a trough. Chinese restaurants in particular put just as much work into carving and design…

I'm going to show this story to my husband just to prove SEE THE WAIT STAFF DO LOOK TO SEE IF YOU'VE CLOSED YOUR MENU! My husband will sit and read the menu with it open even after he's chosen and it always takes FOREVER for our order to be taken. I start getting really grumpy and say 'Close your *%#$ menu or we'll…

The single most unbelievable thing about this (that no one's pointed out - or I missed it as far as I scrolled down) the fact that they still have security tapes from 2004! That's 10 years ago. Even if they are digital video files are huge (and were even bigger back then) - no one has that kind of storage unless it's…

Why not? I'm not sure how the two are connected lol. It was mostly us taking pictures of each other (we recreated one group shot we'd taken at the same restaurant on my 18th birthday because we're sentimental losers) and catching each other up. For example a friend I lost touch with had a baby but one of the girls…

On the plus side, he took home some sweet souvenirs.

Uh, YEAH. Because they're fucking comfortable. People that like being comfortable are such assholes.

Well, *maybe* this happens in the suburbs and maybe in a restaurant that only caters to tourists, but New Yorkers go out all the time, and are used to truly random seating situations (communal tables, the last table by the door / bathroom / kitchen, eating at the bar etc.) in full or nearly-full restaurants. The idea…

I confess that one meal I ordered something I thought was very simple, and the potato came out looking like a little palm tree—baked and then sliced so it would stand upright, hollowed out so cheese could go inside and melt, and carmelized onions draped across the top like the fronds. For a little hole in the wall…

My family owns a restaurant & bar and this sounds very familiar, although not as bad as to this extent. But I've had people order coffees, then end up distracted, and 45 minutes later they yell at us for their coffee being cold...they don't even think time has passed and it wasn't our fault you weren't sipping your…

"I would like to report this employee who saved me from maiming myself."

my sister used to work at this ride. She told me that a woman dropped her wallet over the side of the boat and when she reached for it my sister basically screamed not to because the water is full of gears. The screaming alone is a big Disney no no because it ruins the magic. The woman then asked my sister to retrieve…

"The man, who is said to be in his mid-to-late lost the tips of....."

I'm completely not buying this. The way surveillance tapes work is that they are copied over unless something happens and you have a need for them. No one would have tapes from 2004. Just would not happen.

Complaining about food you let get cold or slow service if you're taking forever is silly. But...

I would say, based on my (granted, fairly limited) experience in a semi-high-end hotel restaurant with really cool decor, that the constant instagramming and picture taking definitely adds some time to the meal.

Thank you. When it became clear that I'd be doing this on my own, I went looking online for positive stories about single parents who kicked ass. Holy hell they are hard to find, at least in the dominant media narrative of single parenthood, so anytime someone shares their personal story of "successful single…