Please don’t claim an allergy when it’s just a preference, no matter how strong your preference is. That is why servers have become so cavalier about them. Twenty years ago, when I was waiting tables, no one was cavalier about them, but faking them wasn’t a big thing then.

Colin, this is an excellent story, but I think you were remiss in not excoriating the living fuck out of the people who are the reason why so many servers assume that everyone is lying about their allergies.

along with allergies: sugar free requests. Like haha I’m gonna give this skinny bitch regular coke or whatever. No. Stop. Have you ever fucking heard of diabetes?

I totally agree, at the end of the day I’m paying for the food any (reasonable) request should be accommodated. If I want my steak well done with catchup on the side you should do it. Though if I ever do this please lock me away in a Russian gulag until I redevelop a sense of taste.

Especially nut allergies. Those and shellfish allergies are the most likely to kill you, possibly within just a few minutes. My aunt and stepfather-in-law both have serious shellfish allergies, and we eat a lot of shellfish. So whenever they come over for dinner we just keep the food we’re going to use in another…

The restaurant I worked at had an entire procedure for dealing with someone who had a good allergy. We had special menus that detailed how to order items to avoid allergens, thr kitchen paused to clean off a small area where their food would be prepared, it was served on special dishware and a manager always took it…

Can you imagine when he starts Hubbarding after big plays?

So, he just always looks like he’s been drafted by the Raiders.

So the rapist went #1 but no one will touch this guy with a ten foot pole because he gets sad and/or anxious sometimes?

I think the next paragraph is even better...

And they aren’t even his own quotes

...to be fair, Ronald Reagan is responsible for a whole ton and a half of terrible and godawful things, many of which, indeed, have to do with Americans’ personal entitlement and our complete lack of regard for the consequences of our own actions. Also the War on Drugs. Also more than one foreign policy fiasco that is…

He wanted Stephen A fucking Smith? Really?

Shut up, Jason.

I used to work the Sunday morning shift at a coffee shop. Church people are the worst. Between the impatience, tying up tables forever, and the inevitable “looks like a tip, but is actually a religious tract”, they are just the absolute worst.

Once, an 8-top of Christians left one of those “Here’s a Tip for You!” pamphlets on my table, in lieu of a cash tip. I was sort of used to this, so I didn’t remark much, just tossed it into the bus tub with the rest of the debris, and a glower.

I’m a little late but here goes. I worked in a Gay Dennys in Arizona and soon after gay marriage became legal, I had the most adorable elderly couple of men, one white, one black. They were seated at the counter and had on these beautiful leis. I asked if I could feel the real flowers and asked what the occasion was.…

“she didn’t tip Sunday lunch waitstaff because she knew ‘that means they didn’t go to church.’”

yes, the reporter sounds like an ass, not the coked out perv bar owner with a 2-way mirror in the ladies washroom for peeping. lol

“The Baltimore police ask that you remain in your seats while they figure out the best way to escalate the situation.”