It took me a minute, but I think he was questioning getting dessert after breakfast. Personally, as someone who sometimes goes to Cracker Barrel for dinner specifically because I feel like breakfast food, I don't have a problem with it.

And that's why they're held up as dumb customers - it's not that they didn't know something, it's that they got pissy and stubborn. There was a lovely BCO story a while back about a very nice gentleman who came to an Indian restaurant and at the end of his meal said he loved it but had never had Italian food like it.…

Along somewhat related lines, I am filled with fury every time I see a story about someone getting caffeinated coffee instead of the decaf they ordered, because [insert reason]. Some people genuinely cannot tolerate caffeine, beyond the miniscule percentage that's in decaf, and/or will have prescription drug…

Similar story at work just yesterday. We do free sundaes for kids' birthdays, which is nice, but we weren't sure what to do for a kid who is lactose intolerant. His server said something along the lines of 'the worst it'll do is give him a little gas, so just give him the sundae'. After two or three times explaining…

Yes. I love that story because I totally see both sides of it! He, naturally enough, must have felt as if they'd come from the moon or something, having clearly never heard of such a thing; while they, also naturally enough, didn't think it was weird for obvious tourists to have a question about a local business's…

Never underestimate people's potential for ignorance. Everybody is ignorant about something. Even moi.

Speaking as a person with about a dozen relatives with actual celiac, I hate that woman so so very much.

Story #10 made me cry a little. I learned a few things:

In high school I worked at a small mom and pop BBQ restaurant, in a poor section of a large city in the south, and there were lots of interesting folks who would come in on the daily.

Not so much self-control as terror! Like "I'm a stupid fucking 17 year-old, wtf do I do now?!!!?!?!?!?!"

My ex and I went to a Subway once and he ordered some special they had going on. I think it was a southwest chicken sub or something like that. When they asked him what he wanted on it he says "Whatever comes on it". We both point out that the only thing making it that sandwich is really the meat and the sauce; he has…

It's funny, reading through these - the recurring theme of the customer not knowing what they're talking about, and then getting pissy when someone else tries to impart knowledge to them. I guess, in a way, no one likes to be embarrassed. But that's no excuse to be an asshole to the person trying to help you, either.

I really appreciate the preemptive calling-out of those people who will be tripping over their own tongues trying to be the first to explain away every idiosyncrasy in every story, no matter how rude or stupid. I am 90% sure this trend is due to people who are equally badly behaved or regularly stupid in public who…

That's why they asked after the first time. It wasn't snooty, it was them wanting to know.

Oh my god, number 21 all day. If I had a nickel for every time I've served someone gluten-free pasta, then cheesecake. Or a burger on a gluten-free bun accompanied by 3 distinctly glutenful beers. They have no idea what gluten is or why it's bad for some people, they just have a little thread in their brains with one…

"She's an idiot, and if you think her repeated refusal to believe him is completely normal, you are likewise an idiot."

""Do you guys have nachos?" (I'd like to point out that he would have walked directly by the sign on the front of the building that read "authentic Italian thin-crust pizza") The server informed him that we did not, but we did have a taco pizza"

Hahaha. I am glad that someone enjoyed it! I think the problem was I referred to the customer as "elderly", when I really should have said somewhere between 55-60. Commenters thought perhaps she was old enough to have vision issues or maybe the beginning stages of dementia or Alzheimer's. But I can assure you, it was…

I appreciate this story for the fact that we finally found the point where a customer can do or say something so stupid that not even contrary commenters will try to defend them. There's just no justifying "cook it more and make it tender." You just can't.