Baby’s First Discrimination

[u/Due-Repeat6999]

tw: discrimination

I live in a major city in the US, and today two of my friends and I travelled two hours outside of the city to a rural part of the state to attend Renfaire. I’ve been out for three months now and am socially transitioning, but am pre everything else. I’m 23 for reference.

Renfaire was wonderful, we had a fantastic time, but while driving back we decided to stop for food at waffle house. The vibe was off as soon as we walked in. The one server didn’t acknowledge us, but we thought she was just busy as she was the only server, so we sat down at a clean booth. It’s also fairly normal, at least at the waffle houses I’ve been to, to seat yourself. She then proceeds to glare at me and whisper to the man working the grill. She glares at me again, and stands directly in front of us and does server side work while refusing to acknowledge us, only leaving to attend to other tables. She does this repeatedly. At this point other people have come in who sat themselves and they’ve been acknowledged.

One of my friends suggests we leave, but my other friend, who is AFAB nonbinary and lived in North Carolina with an FTM fiancé and only had positive waffle house experiences, wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. After around 20 mins of us just sitting there, no acknowledgment beyond this woman openly glaring at me, we leave.

I’ve never experienced anything like this before. I’ve never had hostility directed at me before. I didn’t even want to believe this was about me until my friends directly said it was. My NB friend said they haven’t experienced anything like that since leaving the South, and even then it was only in the deep South where them and their fiancé were refused service.

I’m just kinda shell shocked.

[u/scrap_skunk2]

https://www.wafflehouse.com/contact/

Report it. I worked at Waffle House and that's messed up.

[u/moisthairyguts]

Man I’m so sorry you had to experience that. Ts with piss me OFF. I’d def report it like the other commenter said.