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Or (and this is my last story, I promise) the occasion a few years ago when I and my ex-business partner were in Miami, a town he knew well but I didn't, for a diving trade show. We needed some brochures to distribute but had no means of generating or printing them. My colleague didn't hesitate - off he went in the rented car, returning an hour later with a laptop, a colour laser printer, and several reams of high grade paper. That afternoon and evening were spent designing & printing several hundred one page brochures.

The next couple of days were spent at the show. When on the third day we came to pack up and leave, I realised the laptop and printer were nowhere to be seen. My friend had taken them back to Office Depot, said they weren't suitable for our purposes and got a 100% refund, even on the paper that we'd used.

That's one reason he's my EX-business partner.

No comment, I don't need Peter getting all in a huff

No, really, I know all the stories, but honestly, at the end of the day, those miserable fu%ks live a $hit existance without us server types bothering to say...grind up pot and put it in the tea bags....................
have a nice day, sir!

What are you saying, Beachy??

I'd like a cup of tea please.

Perhaps I shouldn't have complained, butI was in a hurry and I was eating in this open-air café when it started raining. I was pissed that it took me over an hour and a half to finish my soup.

Mr Malibu was in a restaurant in Corpus Christi, he was with my parents and a friend or two... He ordered pasta but told the waiter NO CRAB please. It came out with crab so he sent it back and said he would like a grilled cheese instead. Wrong thing to do: In short order all inside the restaurant heard the chef yelling "He wants WHAT?" and saw the plate fly across the kitchen and crash against the wall.

My old roommate ran a cafe in Minneapolis/St Paul... behind the counter hung a sign w/ their motto: "The customer's right when the customer's right." They also had a sign on the front door that read "push"... the front door, of course, pulled open... trust that, while sitting at the counter sipping hot coffee on a frigid MN winter day, watching someone lean against the door for a minute/two was never not funny!!!

Given Marty initiated this thread with the example of a restaurant, I'd suggest that you can divide restaurant patrons into two groups... those who have never themselves worked behind the lines of a restaurant and those who have... the latter almost always being less bothersome... not less "demanding" of quality food/service/overall experience mind you, just less petty/irrational/demeaning/etc...

We recently had a customer here who, upon arrival, while standing in the MIDST of our restaurant (waiters running about, patrons dining, pots and pans clanking, etc) impatiently asked "Can you tell me where the restaurant is?" "Uhm, well... let's see... I do believe that you might be standing in it." She quickly proved to be whacked outta her mind on 'something'... during the course of the night, among other things, she tried to wrest the ticket book from her waitress so she could write her own order, tried to climb behind our bar so that she could type on our computer and, with an open kitchen here, insisted upon grabbing her own order from the service counter to bring to her table... now that I think about it, perhaps we should have just employed her???

My worst customer

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Silk - that was quite funny!

OK, not a worst customer story, but one morning before hitting the ski hill, I was having brekkie with pals at Phil's Pancake House.

I had some sausages. I cut them up a piece at a time, as I ate. At one point, I looked down and there was *half* a fly on my plate.

Silk, very funny!!!