Somewhere In Between

I understand Jason. I have often wondered how Australia doesn't have a DDD, Dead Dipshit Day, too.I invented a term to cover these assholes. Call them Smarns. Sado-masochistic anal retentive necrophiliacs.I always wish them, "good smarning."And of course they have absolutely no idea to what I am referring.One place I worked at, only employed Smarns to fill management positions, so after I told my staff, everyone was soon wishing the managers, "Good Smarning." One of the managers actually called me aside to ask me what smarning meant. I told him it was a term of endearment. He believed me.

You're lucky, Jason!I eat out twice a week, mostly. At a variety of restaurants. And I've really noted a falloff in custom. Where there sometimes was a wait before, now most restaurants are mostly empty most of the time, even on Friday and Saturday nights.If you're mostly busier than maggots on a four-day-old carcass, you should be rolling like a pig in shit, with smiles galore. That sure isn't the case in LA. (Colin tells me my analogies tend toward the gross, but what does he know?)But, as to the assholes, the ones you describe certainly deserve that title. When on the few occasion I do go late, close to closing time, I always ask if it's too late, and if they say I have to order quickly, I do. I figure they're doing me a favor by accommodating me, not the other way around. If I don't eat there that night, they won't suffer, but I very well might. Most places close about the same time.Luckily, I don't think there are that many of those sorts of people around. But I never worked directly with the public. Perhaps there are. You'd see it more than I ever did.C

Cole, don't get me wrong, we have many guests that are polite and thankful for our time and service. But sadly, we don't remember them as vividly as we remember the assholes. You talk to any server, and they will remember the asshole customer that didn't tip for years over the nice polite guy that tipped twenty percent. In my life, I have seen people in the mall and I will immediately remember them from my restaurant three years ago. I just wished, we could actually treat these people how they should be treated and not have to act like we are the assholes. One of these days, I'm just gonna lose it and go off on someone, I just know it.Jason (who has calmed down a bit)