Listen up Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell...

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So, the SO and I went out for a St. Patty’s day beer and snack yesterday. We each ordered one beer and our dinner.

Everything had arrived and we were munching away. SO was about half way through his beer and Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell asked if he wanted another.

He said “No.” Which seems quite clear.

Fast forward a bit. SO was about 3/4 of the way through his beer and Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell again asks if he wants another.

“No thank you.” was the response. Still, pretty clear.

So, SO finishes his beer. I’m still nursing mine and we’re still munching on dinner. Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell whips by the table, grabs his glass and mumbles “memudmedume mejd” We both assume she has said “Here, let me take that out of your way” or some such.

Meanwhile, SO and I are watching Bush announce his plans for world domination and so we are a tad distracted. When we both look back at the table, there’s a new, full beer sitting there in front of SO.

“Did you order that?” I ask.

“Nope.” he replies.

Through deductive reasoning, we descover that Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell, at her last pass of the table, had said “I’ll grab you another one.” in a flurry on her way past. She never waited for confermation. She ignored previous “Nos” from the SO. She was basically trying to pump up the bar tab. This probably works for a lot of customers. Even if they don’t order another beer, they’ll drink it if it’s there.

Not so for the SO. We called her over, and really, really nicely (Trust me - I used to be a waitress - we were really nice,) and said “We didn’t order this beer.”

Well, Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell got pissed right off. “You didn’t ORDER it?” You DIDN’T order it?" “YOU didn’t order it?”

“Uh, no.” we both replied.

I seriously thought the woman was going to rip our throats out. She started sputtering and her face turned beet red.

She grabed the beer, sloping it all over our table and stormed off. About 20 minutes later a different waitress brought us our bill after we asked for it.

So -

Listen up, Scamina, Waitress from Hell, if you want to randomly drop beers a peoples’ tables thats fine. But you have no business, whatsoever, getting snitty when the people point out they didn’t order them. Wench.

Oh - and you look stupid in that big green hat, too.

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Besides the scam, don’t forget there’s the risk of liability; for all she knew, a second beer would have caused your SO to wrap his car around a tree on the way home, and it would have been on her head, especially if YOU lived to testify . . .

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Really?

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I like the wave of emphasis. I wonder if it would have gone the other way after that.

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Truth is, I’m not positive, but think about it–if you’re a bartender and someone leaves your establishment sloppy drunk and gets into an accident, you (or the establishment) can be held liable for serving the person.

Audrey Levins explains it better than I, in the infamous pizza thread

By extension, then, it seems as though a waitress who serves someone alcohol could get into the same hot water, especially if the person in question didn’t even order the drink! (I realize that this does open up a big can of worms, I mean what if a buddy of your SO happened to see you guys in there and asked the waitress to send over a beer or whatever, but still, as ridiculous as some lawsuits are, why wouldn’t this one fly?)

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I was actually expecting her head to start spinning.

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Interesting thought, Auntie Em. I was actually the one driving (not that she could have known that), and I ordered a glass of beer (10 oz), which pissed her off too.

When I asked for a small Kilkenny she rolled her eyes and went :SMALL?!?.

Yes, you silly twit. Small. She had a really bad attitude all round.

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What kind of beer was it?

Well, if you’re gonna spin some yarns, we need all the details.

One beer…really…

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He had a Ricards Red and I had a Kilkenny.

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Sounds like she was expecting plenty of customers who were going to do nothing other than sit and guzzle multiple pints (not one half, as I presume you each ordered) of beer all night long. When you showed that you didn’t plan on doing such a thing, she got pissed off.

Alice, I think you’re right to have a problem with this. Do you patronize that place very often? If this was a place that you go to often enough to know some of the regulars and perhaps some of the staff, I’d have a word with the owner. Who knows how many customers (including you, and I wouldn’t blame you) would leave and never come back because of her?

At least she didn’t treat you or your husband as I was once treated by a waitress who was disappointed I wouldn’t be chain-guzzling beers all night:

She: You want another beer?

Me: Not right now, thanks.

She: Cheapskate. Pay your tab and get out.

You know, I did. And I’ve never gone back.

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Yeah. Liquor liability Insurance is mucho expensivo in Alberta. Do you remember that bouncer who was sued, along with the waitress and bartender, from an Earl’s or someplace in the city? About five years ago?

No, I can’t be any more vague.

Where’d you go?

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You know, alice, after reading CrankyAsAnOldMan’s thread about babies in airplanes, my first thought was that the waitress was trying to slip you a mickey.

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Well Sublight, my SO was crying and wailing unconsolably for at least an hour.

Oh, wait. No he wasn’t. I just think she was a big twat.

Ginger, I actually have no idea what you’re talking about. :smiley: We were at Woody’s Taphouse which is usually a pretty good, low key type pub.

I don’t know if she had a quota to meet for St. P day or what. (although I’ve never heard of anything like that in any other place.)

Dunno.

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Holy cow, I have a cite! Well, part of one, but if you want to know about Canadian liability law in relation to alcohol service and subsequent events, then Jordan House v. Menow is the case my Torts prof kept talking about. Dude got drunk, dude got thrown out (literally), dude got run over. They got him way drunk (at his request, yes), they threw him out when he was way drunk, he got hurt because he was drunk, they breached their duty of care which resulted in damage that was factually caused by the aforesaid breach in a foreseeable… yeah, I usually fell asleep before then too.

Much as I can understand the idea that it’s a safe bet to bring another Rickards to everybody on St. Patricks day, bad service is still a bad thing.

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I hope you stiffed her on the tip because of this behavior, especially after your SO told her no several times.

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Well, we had a bit of a problem here.

Scamina, Evil Waitress from Hell dissapeared.

Our table was then taken over by Dropsy, Clumsy but Nice Waitress from Hobokin.

We didn’t know who we would be stiffing, so we left a tip. I did make sure to give it to Dropsy, however.