I agree with you, Rigamarole, your customer was a bitch.
But sometimes, you have to roll your eyes and go on. It’s not like you’re going to be able to change her views.
You are the one who has made the decision that the litlle old lady changed the name because she did not like “the race of the inventor.” You have provided no evidence that she was anything other than a little old lady who happened to substitute the name of a current celebrity with whom she associates for the name of a celebrity of an earlier generation.
Had she gone to management and demanded that you enter “Arnold Palmer” on the menu, then strike it, replacing it by “Tiger Woods,” you might have a point.
(For that matter, what business did you have “correcting” her by providing a name when she had quite clearly made her order known to you? If you are going to demonstrate your superiority to a customer by condescendingly offering up a trade name for a drink as a corrective to the customer’s order, you have to figure that the customer is going to react in some fashion. Having been embarrassed by your announcing that she had not used the right words to place her order, she responded with a joke. (I know you did not find it funny, but this whole thread is a testament to your grasp of the humor concept.))
Well, then, that’s completely different. Now it rates a full Whoop De Fucking Doo.
You’d think someone who “deals with douchebag customers every day” would have grown a thicker skin by now. Who the fuck cares what it’s called?
Why can’t an Ice Tea with Lemonade be both a Arnold Palmer and a Tiger Woods?
I mean aren’t a Shirley Temple and a Roy Rogers the same drink?
I find the OP’s rant weaker than Superman in a kryptonite coffin, but this “explanation” doesn’t sound particularly credible.
Picture a white old man insisting to his black server that he doesn’t want a “Tiger Woods,” but insists on calling it a “Jack Nicklaus” (or some other white golfer).
Rigamarole should’ve shrugged and forgotten it rather than stewing as he apparently has, but sometimes those little perceived racial digs really are racial digs, as I’m sure many of our black posters to this board will affirm (and have insisted, in many a thread) when the situation is reversed.
(I’ve never heard of an “Arnold Palmer” in my life and that drink sounds disgusting.)
You know, if you say “Arnold Palmer” in the presence of a whole lot of non golf enthusiasts, they will say, “Who?” Tiger Woods will get more recognition, except among golf enthusiasts, but they will know who Tiger Woods is, too.
Perhaps she was an ageist, rather than a racist.
I doubt if even Arnold Palmer would get all that worked up about this.
Tris
Sexist pig.
Tris
I thought a Shirley Temple had Sprite and a Roy Rogers had Coke (Or whatever the clear/dark cola is of your choice) with grenadine?
No.
A Shirley Temple is grenadine and 7up.
A Roy Rogers is grenadine and Coca-Cola.
That little old lady’s no good
She must have been born in the hood
She wanted this drink
But the silly old fink
Slammed Palmer by naming it Wood
Chill. You’re coming off as a condesending prick right now. Tomn’s point about your possibly embarrassing her is valid. As for how common you think the drink name is, just look at the responses of those who said they’ve never heard it called that. The only place I’ve ever seen it listed as an actual named drink was at a golf course club house. I thought it was just a cutesy tribute to an old legend.
If you had done that to me, I might have ordered my food by ingredients, too.
Waiter: “And what would you like to eat?”
Me: "I would like some lettuce, tomato, carrot, celery, and some onion, all sliced up or torn up and put in a bowl with some sort of dressing on it.
W: “You mean a salad?”
Me: “If that’s what you kids are calling it now a days, sure. And I want some ground beef cooked into a round, flat patty and placed between two slices of a bun, with sliced tomato and onion and some mayonaise.”
W: “A hamburger?”
Me: “Whatever. You guys got names for everything or what?”
Seems to me that you have been stewing from that first incident and the lady got the brunt of it. You have provided no evidence she was being racist.
My guess is that she thought someone invented it and named it after a white guy. She was just renaming it with no attribution to the inventor.
I bet in her family they really do call it a TW.
My friend was just refused a job and we think it’s because of the color of his skin. I’ve been refused apartments because I’m not Japanese. My sister was fired and a guy was hired to replace her, because it was a “man’s job.”
In various places in the world, people are getting killed and bombed out of their houses for their race or group.
If you seriously think that the worst fucking thing that happened to you in your little world was that a lady made a joke about a drink then read up a bit about what’s happening in the real word.
I don’t think it’s the worst thing that’s happened to me, and I’m not stewing (as other posters have suggested) or really even that mad per se. But I take it as a slight, it made me uncomfortable (like I explained in the OP, I had to serve these people after she had more or less professed her racism toward a group which I am a part of), and I wanted to express that and let it out rather than just sucking it up without mentioning it (which would be stewing, in my book). I feel better already.
As for the evidence that it was a racially motivated comment? When I said “Arnold Palmer”, it was obvious from her reaction that she had heard the name and knew what it meant, but just couldn’t bring herself to order a drink named after a white man, and a white golfer at that. :rolleyes:
You knew what she wanted. It’s your job to get it for her. It is not your job to educate her. Do your job, and everyone’s happy.
OK. Next time I go to a restaurant and the waiter is black, I will politely ask “May I have a glass of cranberry juice, dumb nigger?”. I’m sure he will just do his job and get it for me like he is supposed to, and everyone will be happy.
I missed the part in your OP where that woman called you a “dumb cracker.”
And you cannot see the difference between deliberately insulting your server with the epithet “dumb nigger” and a little old lady responding to her server cortrecting her with a joke?
Ed, we’re going to need a whole load of rolleye icons over here.
I understand what you’re getting at Rig … it’s not just the fact that she made a racial statement in passing … it’s that you then had to continue to wait on her without showing any reaction to that statement. All I can say is that the world is full of jerks … some are just bigger jerks than others.
Are you being serious?
I’ve never heard of an Arnold Palmer.
I’m a douche.
Can I put this on a future resume?