Too Rich to Box?
In this story, which is a true story, Lani is the girl I had a shift with at the juicebar on Monday... She was taking orders at the time while I was back juicing stuff and bringing people their orders.
it's a sad sad story but I had to tell it. so here it goes..
A woman orders a salad, eats some but doesnt finish it. Comes to the counter and says 'I would like to take this home', Lani says 'sure' and grabs a box for her to put her salad in and hands it to her. The customer responds with 'No, I would like to take it TO-GO". Lani, confused, says 'So you're saying you'd like ME to put it in a box for you?' and the customer says 'Well I AM going to take it home..@!#?' So Lani brings the salad over to me and says 'when you're done juicing, do you mind boxing this salad for me?' and I say 'sure.' and go back to juicing and the customer says 'She's not boxing my salad!' Lani responds with 'Yes I know, she will when she finishes doing what she's doing right now, can I help the next person?'
Once I finish juicing, I box the salad and bring it over to the counter. There were a bunch of people standing around and I had no idea who's salad it was so I put the boxed salad on the counter and yelled out 'salad to go?' and the customer said 'yes' and pointed at her bag so I would pick up the salad and put it in her bag for her. And so I did.. Had I known the whole story, from when she had arrived to the point where she told me to put the boxed salad in her bag, I would have asked if she'd like me to carry her bags home, open the box, put some salad in my mouth, chew it and puke it in her mouth so she didn't have to bother doing anything...
I think both Lani and I were both confused at first serving this woman who clearly did not want to step 'down' to our level as servers but then later we wondered if she maybe truly had no idea how to box a salad because all her life other people have been doing everything for her. Can you imagine living a life where you are so rich that you are incredibly helpless and dependent on others because you never got to learn how to take care of yourself and actually live?
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Posted by: chris | December 6, 2007 08:35 PM
I've waitressed a lot and I have to say that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. That woman has some bad karma coming her way.
Posted by: Sophie | December 20, 2007 04:15 PM
Actually I just heard a better story. This apperantly happened a couple of months ago.. A customer orders a bunch of stuff and while someone is packing her order, she goes 'what's this one? I wanna try this as well' So someone grabs a cookie and is about to put it in one of the boxes when she interrupts 'no, no put it in my mouth, here put it in my mouth' who the hell does that?
Posted by: Deniz | December 20, 2007 08:11 PM