Now that I'm starting to get settled in to my new job at a burger joint, I'm finding that, for some reason, restaurant playplaces bring out the worst in people. That's usually where I find the dirtiest tables, but this is the first time I've really been motivated to rant about it, because today, in one of the corners of the room, someone left an entire table covered in trash and the remains of a half-eaten meal. I'm talking about bags and wrappers everywhere, cups with some soda still left in them, disgusting soaked-through paper saucers of dressing sticking to the table, a never-even-eaten-from sleeve of fries spilling on the table... so much stuff that I for some time wasn't even sure they weren't planning to come back for it. Of course there were loose fries and caked-on soda gunk on the floor around that table too. You know, I expect this from kids, because they're too young to know better, but you'd think the adults watching over them would care enough to pick up.
When I mentioned this to one of the veteran employees, he expressed a complete lack of surprise and told me of a lady who, I wish I was making this up, let her five-year-old open salt shakers and throw the salt everywhere. Instead of stopping him, she just moved into the main lobby and ate there because she "didn't want to watch".
What is it about these playplaces that makes adults behave like children?
tl;dr Irresponsible parents, grrrrrrr.
When I mentioned this to one of the veteran employees, he expressed a complete lack of surprise and told me of a lady who, I wish I was making this up, let her five-year-old open salt shakers and throw the salt everywhere. Instead of stopping him, she just moved into the main lobby and ate there because she "didn't want to watch".
What is it about these playplaces that makes adults behave like children?
tl;dr Irresponsible parents, grrrrrrr.
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