Over staying your welcome.......

Yes, there is such a thing as over staying your welcome, even in a restaurant.

We’ve talked before of people who take up a table for 3 or 4 hours…..we call them “campers.” Women tend to be worse at this than men. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard, “We haven’t seen each other in a while, so we’re gonna be here for a long time.” Hey, thanks for the heads up, but if I can’t turn this table, I’ll make less money, unless you plan on tipping me for taking up my table all night…..which rarely happens. So you wanna sit there all night and chat. That’s what your living room is for!!!!

Then there’s that one lone table whose occupants seem oblivious to everything else going on around them….or not going on….like, no one else is left in the restaurant. There are no longer any other servers bustling through the dining room, (except for the one who is stuck working late because you haven’t got the good sense to notice we’re closed) all the other servers have gone home. Then they try to play innocent and ask, “Are we the only ones in here?” I’d like to tell them, ”No, we have 40 people crammed in the wine cellar, drinking everything we’ve got.” But I’m afraid they’d believe me. Sarcasm is lost on fools. Look around, you morons!

Ah, let’s not forget the banquet people. This is not a hotel, you do not get the room until tomorrow. When your event (shower, birthday party, whatever) is over, we need you out of the room. We have to reset this room, and technically, we can’t do that until you are gone. However, if you’re gonna sit around and drink coffee, we’re gonna start changing table clothes and moving tables around, because the next party is due to arrive shortly. If they ask when the next party starts, and we tell them 5:00, (it’s now 4:00) they sit back and say, “OH, we’ve still got time.” NO YOU DON’T!!!! How convenient (and quickly) of you to forget that YOU arrived an hour and half early to decorate the room. It never seems to enter their minds that the next group may want to do the same thing. Why is it people seem to throw any modicum of common sense they may have, right out the window when it comes to showing a little consideration for others?