Restaurant Manners

I know this has NOT ONE THING to do with my transplant or this awesome adventure i am on, (barf) but i wanted to rant for a few minutes about being a customer at a restaurant. (Please understand I have taken a pain pill, but i still want to get my point across... high or not)

1. Everyone makes mistakes. I am sure if I came to your place of employment, you would make a simple mistake, and when pointed out, it can be corrected within 10 minutes or so. I am sure you aplogoize to your boss, coworkers, and whomever else was effected. Problem solved. If you aren't able to relax, or laugh it off, cook your own damn meal and learn to lighten up!!

2. When a server comes up to your table, please take the .5 seconds to say "hello" and "water if fine" hell, you can even add such comments as, "how are you?" " any suggestions?" Nothing, i mean nothing is worse then when asking a table a question, and the response is... silence. Being the punk I am, I will speak a little louder and repeat my question. "just wanted to make sure you were able to hear me. Sometimes I speak softly and don't want you to miss out!" **I have never spoken softly** I am just shocked at how rude people can be.

3. It is 2010 and leaving a 20% tip isn't bonkers!! Hell, leaving an 18% tip is still considered to be appropriate. But please, lets be serious... 10 to 15% is not even worth a servers time. Do you know that even if you leave any server a tip, they have other people that they need to pay. That beer the bartender opened, the table that was set prior to your arrival, the people that made your food... they all recieve a portion of the tip. So there are times I have acutally had to pay other coworkers for me to serve you. In the state of Nebraska, servers are paid a total of 2.13 an hour. After taxes, and giving other portions to people, we are not walking away with too much.

Please, please, please understand that I LOVE serving in restaurants. Even through all of my medical stuff, it is my goal to get back to working at nights and seeing new people. I was sitting at Panera waiting for lunch when I witnessed a table get upset because of an error that was fixed in what I would say 2 minutes. An apology was made and they were still made. People need to relax... at least they aren't on a transplant list. Ass-holes!!

Hannah and Bailee have arrived... time to spend with my besties!!!