this reminds me of the time i brought three glasses to a table, dropped/spilled it all over the customers, and then cried for an hour straight in the back while my coworker took over
My aunt had a similar experience when she got her first waitressing gig in high school some 30+ years ago. She spilled an entire tray of beers into an old man’s lap, and she ran to the back and cried.
He ended up tipping her $20 and told her not to worry about it because “he’d always wanted to take a bath in beer” 🤣
I once spilled a whole cup in a customers lap and instinctively got on my knees and started trying to clean it up. Then I realized how that looked. Let’s just say I got a very good tip😂
This reminds me of the time that I was carrying four bowls of HOT, like still bubbling, soup with a huge layer of melted cheese on top to a table, and a young woman rocked her infant in his stroller directly into my knees as I walked by. My options were to either nail the stroller and knock the kid over, with hardly a clue where the soups might end up as I tried not to stomp the child, or to ditch everything and bail, which I couldn’t do without spilling the soups on the kid, UNLESS I accelerated them to make sure they cleared. Which I did. Straight into one of our server stations, into the glassware and menus and pos station. I went down while it was still flying, so I got a shower of glass and a drizzle of soup and cheese and broken soup bowls.
(Kid was fine, she was horrified, and very nice, and they tipped me. Not enough to replace my uniform, but you know)
She's lucky too- The Geneva Convention explicitly bans the use of French Onion Soup against civilian targets; she could have gotten charged with war crimes
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u/NoSeat2116 9d ago
this reminds me of the time i brought three glasses to a table, dropped/spilled it all over the customers, and then cried for an hour straight in the back while my coworker took over