nasty surprises!

[cloudiko]

Just an unpleasant note about people who leave you nasty surprises. I usually get sucker punched into cleaning tables for the waiters/waitresses during my shift because they either get too busy or too lazy. However, on several occasions I have found some nasty surprises that customers decided to leave for everyone's enjoyment.

Case #1 - The bratty children who decide they are bored while waiting for their food and their drink isn't quite as tasty as they would like. So, they decide to break all the crayons we provide them in a little cup and then pour a little bit of their drink into the broken crayons. Crayon soup makes me a little bitter, because I'm the one who doesn't get to go home until every container (there's about 20 of them) has exactly the right number of crayons. I'm also the one who inconviently sticks my hand in there on regular occasion because I'm in a hurry and don't want to make the extra trip back to pick up the crayon cups.

Case #2 - Syrup on the table, but in places where you wouldn't expect it to be. For example, when you lift up the sugar container to wipe underneath it and discover it's been superglued to the table by a whole container of syrup. Enough said.

Case #3 - The old man who pees himself while waiting for his table. I know it can't be helped sometimes, and I am completely understanding of any medical condition of any sort that might cause this. However, there was a man in his mid-70s who used to come in regularly and pee himself every time. I know this might be a medical condition, but he was definately hitting on the waitresses with the veracity of a younger man. All in all, not appealing. And of course, I get to clean it up. Or listen to old ladies very slyly come up to me and whisper "I think there's urine on that chair over there." I would calmly reply, "It is urine, and someone is going to take care of it." The only good thing to come out of this nasty surprise is that it acts as a cranky old woman repellant. You so much as say the word "urine" to them and they go silent and slink back off to whatever corner they were lurking in.

Case #4 - (the best of all, and my personal favorite) The old people who leave barfy napkins on the table. They get up and act polite, but then when you go to clear their table you find their disgusting and rainbow colored surprise. I've seen multiple incidents with this one, and this is the nastiest surprise of all. Who wants to lift up a napkin (or worse, smash it in their palm) and have barf oooze everywhere? It was the most disgusting thing I've seen in a while, and the worst part is that this isn't a rare occurance.

[bigjimaz]

Reminder to self: never go to Customers Suck right before dinner.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Quoth bigjimaz

Reminder to self: never go to Customers Suck right before dinner.

How bout while you're eating dinner? At least it was chicken soup...something turns my stomach and a sip of yummy broth settles it back down ;p

[Sofar]

I have the awful habit of shredding my paper napkin when I'm at a restaurant. It's something I do absent-mindedly. Recently, however, I've been finding little piles of shredded napkin on the tables at my burger joint, which means there is another napkin-shredder out there.

[coldcupofjoe]

FELLOW NAPKIN SHREDDER!!! Hail from lands afar! (I hope, if you live in west Texas it might be me leaving shredded napkins on the table...)

[Giggle Goose]

Quoth cloudiko

Case #3 - The old man who pees himself while waiting for his table. I know it can't be helped sometimes, and I am completely understanding of any medical condition of any sort that might cause this. However, there was a man in his mid-70s who used to come in regularly and pee himself every time.

It's obvious he has a condition! Don't they make special underwear for that kind of stuff, though? If you know you are incontinent, then don't go out in public and expect people to clean up after you time after time. Accidents happen, but this guy is disgusting.

[Best Made Tacos]

Quoth cloudiko

SNIPPED

Case #3 - The old man who pees himself while waiting for his table. I know it can't be helped sometimes, and I am completely understanding of any medical condition of any sort that might cause this. However, there was a man in his mid-70s who used to come in regularly and pee himself every time. I know this might be a medical condition, but he was definately hitting on the waitresses with the veracity of a younger man. All in all, not appealing.

Heh, I'd be reminding him of that next time he tried to hit on anyone. Just subtly work it into a response to the pick up lines.
If it only happened once, that would be cruel, natch. But it sounds like he needs to wake up to the fact that with incontinence comes responsibility.

[Rapscallion]

Quoth Best Made Tacos

with great incontinence comes great responsibility.

Edited for my amusement.

Rapscallion

[AFpheonix]

Quoth Giggle Goose

It's obvious he has a condition! Don't they make special underwear for that kind of stuff, though? If you know you are incontinent, then don't go out in public and expect people to clean up after you time after time. Accidents happen, but this guy is disgusting.

Hell, they make medicine to help with piddle problems. We need some Detrol LA, stat!

[cloudiko]

Quoth Rapscallion

with great incontinence comes great responsibility.

i concur. points for rapscallion on that one.