# Strange restaurant lady **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016 "2017-05-19T18:14:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Private\_Bin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Private\_Bin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Bin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/1 "2017-05-19T18:14:40Z")
Hey, Does anyone remember a woman who posted on many forums, including this one, about ridiculous slights in restaurants she had imagined ? She had ludicrously strange standards, and a kind of catch phrase that was something like, “The customer demands the right.” That’s not it at all, but the kind of vibe of it. It was really funny reading, and I was hoping to look it up again. Does this remind anyone of anything? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/2 "2017-05-19T18:26:44Z")
I’m guessing you mean Springs1 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10936021&postcount=247](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10936021&postcount=247) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/3 "2017-05-19T18:39:30Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > I’m guessing you mean Springs1 [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10936021&postcount=247](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10936021&postcount=247) That post itself wasn’t quite that bad, but I read through most of the thread and holy shit, that them there’s some grade-A crazy! How did I miss this the first time around? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/4 "2017-05-19T19:41:02Z")
The catch phrase I always remember from her ; THE MENU IS THE GOD OF ORDERING! ---
**Author:** ![Private\_Bin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Private\_Bin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Bin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/5 "2017-05-19T20:23:42Z")
That’s it! ---
**Author:** ![DeepLiquid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deepliquid/32/14893_2.png) [@DeepLiquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepLiquid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/6 "2017-05-19T20:39:52Z")
Holy crap, that is some seriously interesting behavior! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/7 "2017-05-19T21:29:25Z")
Since this is about a poster here, I’m moving this to the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/8 "2017-05-19T23:09:58Z")
102 posts - all in a single thread. Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/9 "2017-05-20T00:09:37Z")
Well, fuck me. I’m pretty sure my dear old mum didn’t have Springs1 in mind when she would shake her head and mutter, “I guess it takes all kinds”. Springs took ‘totally psycho one-trick pony’ to a whole new level. And yeah, how the hell did I miss that the first time around?? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/10 "2017-05-20T00:49:59Z")
No way I’m reading that thread if Springs1 repeats herself as much as she did in that post. At least she’s not obsessive beyond all fucking imagination. I wonder if she likes dinner companions who like cracking shitty [jokes](https://youtu.be/Z9VLwV48OHs?t=301). > [@Antinor01](#): > > The catch phrase I always remember from her ; THE MENU IS THE GOD OF ORDERING! Huh. Wish I coulda thought of that as my life-long credo. I feel existentially raped now. ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/11 "2017-05-20T01:39:19Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > … she would shake her head and mutter, “I guess it takes all kinds”. No, it really doesn’t … But we got 'em! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/12 "2017-05-20T02:30:24Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > I feel existentially raped now. Wouldn’t you have to have your hand shaken first? ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/13 "2017-05-20T04:23:19Z")
Thanks for this! I was in a mood, and didn’t have anything good to read, and this was an excellent distraction. 😃 I’m up to page 11… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/14 "2017-05-20T11:29:15Z")
“Do that, and I’m happy, and I tip well.” The very words that have defined restauranting for (checking my notes) roughly three thousand years. I’d say six thousand, but my records are only so good. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/15 "2017-05-20T14:22:59Z")
Wow, somehow I had missed this thread for all these years. That was … interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/16 "2017-05-20T14:46:04Z")
In all fairness to the refill question, what if you take cream and sugar in your coffee, and when it’s two thirds full some server “warms it up for you” without asking? You’ve got the stoichiometry all perfect and everything, and now you need to add 0.4 packets of sugar and a partial tub of that creamer crap, and you know you’re getting it wrong and will have to readjust, and it turns into a whole big project. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I drink it black, so it doesn’t happen to me, but if it did happen I would hate it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/17 "2017-05-20T14:57:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Wow, somehow I had missed this thread for all these years. > > That was … interesting. Yes, in the way that a natural disaster is interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/18 "2017-05-20T14:58:31Z")
I wish I could be that passionate about anything. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/19 "2017-05-20T15:19:10Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > In all fairness to the refill question, what if you take cream and sugar in your coffee, and when it’s two thirds full some server “warms it up for you” without asking? You’ve got the stoichiometry all perfect and everything, and now you need to add 0.4 packets of sugar and a partial tub of that creamer crap, and you know you’re getting it wrong and will have to readjust, and it turns into a whole big project. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I drink it black, so it doesn’t happen to me, but if it did happen I would hate it. Yes, I hate that. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016/20 "2017-05-20T15:39:58Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Wow, somehow I had missed this thread for all these years. > > That was … interesting. I know, it’s something that should be part of SDMB lore. It’s even got its own catchphrase and everything! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-restaurant-lady/787016.md?page=2)