# Just passing along the rant I just received (Ranting about bad customers) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2023, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715 "2023-03-27T14:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/41 "2023-03-27T23:17:01Z")
Ooh, I’ll play. Trader Joe? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/42 "2023-03-27T23:26:21Z")
Then shouldn’t it be “Greater Doughs?” 😁 ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/43 "2023-03-27T23:52:10Z")
My wife waitressed once for a few days (Either Alaska or Wyoming, local joint. Would need to ask). She admits openly that she was horrible at it. The last night, she dropped a tray full of food and beers and everyone clapped. The clapping when she failed was the best ‘tip’ she ever got. She quit the next day. Some people are cut out for it and can do it. Some are not. It is, I’m sure an absolutely brutal thankless job. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/44 "2023-03-28T00:02:53Z")
Now I’m thinking of “greater than dos”, mix in a bit of Spanish. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/45 "2023-03-28T00:04:09Z")
So Teela was right with Trader Joe’s. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/46 "2023-03-28T00:14:23Z")
That has to be it. I can’t think of any other major store or restaurant that rhymes. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/47 "2023-03-28T00:15:32Z")
Great! Now has anyone got any of the cutesy names for Denny’s? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/48 "2023-03-28T00:32:01Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > > [@puzzlegal](#): > > > > I used to “stop by the restroom” to have an excuse to leave a little later than the rest of the group, so I could put some more money on the table without Uncle David noticing. Sometimes my husband would do it, but that was usually my job. > > Was it just that you did not want to be disrespectful that make you do it in secret? > > What would have happened if you’d put the extra money on the table while your uncle David was there with a comment like “Oh oh, looks like you’ve under-tipped a bit there. Things have changed a bit over the past few years. Not to worry - I’ve fixed it up. ” My late aged MIL was the same way, although to her credit she did not flirt with the waitresses\*. She would be highly insulted if you were to augment her tip with some cash of your own. 5% was enough, modern prices are ridiculously high anyway, and her judgment was as good as it ever was, Young Man! I used to slip extra cash to the waitstaff one way or the other, but there was always hell to pay when she caught me at it. * * * \* There was the time she asked a 20-something black busboy what his ethnicity was because as she put it: “You have fine conformation and bone structure.” The young man did have fine posture and beautiful facial features (could easily have been a model), but boy-howdy did that sound like her next question would be to for him to show her his teeth then she’d make an offer to buy him. Really astonishingly jaw-droppingly inappropriate for somebody who was normally rigidly upper-crust-wannabe New England Formal. The young man took it in stride, smiled sweetly, and said his father was Bahamian and his mother Jamaican. I was about ready to die of embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/49 "2023-03-28T08:10:11Z")
_Conformation_? I can’t think of that word outside the context of the Westminster Dog Show (or possibly an equestrian-related event, such as show-jumping). _Jaw-droppingly_ is definitely the right word. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/50 "2023-03-28T10:20:09Z")
years ago there was an actual Christian tv discussion show that talked about how badly people behaved after church (ironically it was made to look like 2 -4 people talking in a coffee shop/diner) and one of the more famous theologians actually said that a CEO confided in him that his restaurant staff considered late Sunday morning / early afternoon to be the worst time of the week because of how the after church crowd behaved towards the staff and each other ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/51 "2023-03-28T11:02:18Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’d take a somewhat different approach: I’d approach the pastor and invite them to next Sunday’s brunch (my treat) The pastor may have a scheduling conflict. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/52 "2023-03-28T12:33:38Z")
Possibly, but if the flock is released for the day, chances are the pastor is too. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/53 "2023-03-28T14:49:19Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I used to “stop by the restroom” to have an excuse to leave a little later than the rest of the group, so I could put some more money on the table without Uncle David noticing. Sometimes my husband would do it, but that was usually my job. I went out to eat with a group of friends and one guy grabbed the check. I watched and noticed he didn’t leave a tip! So I ran back in to use the men’s, and found our waitress and tipped her nicely. Later, another person in the group told me she’d done the same thing. We then discovered that the guy who picked up the check had gone to an ATM to grab more more cash, then he also tipped our waitress. She was tipped ~80%. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/54 "2023-03-28T14:50:41Z")
Worse things have happened in the world. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/55 "2023-03-28T15:54:55Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > She was tipped ~80%. From what I know of some of the groups you hang out in, that might have been just about the right amount. 😉 I know back in my misspent younger days it sure was for my gang. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/56 "2023-03-28T18:24:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > From what I know of some of the groups you hang out in, that might have been just about the right amount. 😉 There were times that I was eating in a restaurant and one of my daughters would be acting completely out of control (you know there are ages when kids are like that). The worst was when my youngest threw a fit and tossed a bowl into the floor (with food in it) and the bowl broke. I’d tip at least 50% if I put a waiter through that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/57 "2023-03-28T18:53:53Z")
I never had the privilege of parenting little kids. But I’m with you in spirit if not in actual experience. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/58 "2023-03-28T20:08:49Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > And guess what type of tip this group left? One buck, and a crumpled “Come to XXX church, Jesus misses you!” leaflet. I would be tempted to go to XXX church next Sunday, as per invitation, write on the leaflet “How do YOU like getting this instead of money? Sincerely, Hardworking Waitress with Stingy XXX Church Customers”, and put it in the offertory plate. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/59 "2023-03-28T20:23:53Z")
Here’s one place to get them. [https://christiandollarstore.com/montracpacof.html](https://christiandollarstore.com/montracpacof.html) > Money tracts are an eye catching witnessing tool. Just not in the way they’re thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715/60 "2023-03-28T20:24:36Z")
XXX Church? Now there’s some worship I could get behind. Where do I sign up? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-passing-along-the-rant-i-just-received-ranting-about-bad-customers/981715.md?page=4)