# What are the waiters secretly calling you on the receipt? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 10, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641 "2012-12-10T21:31:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/61 "2012-12-11T14:31:28Z")
(with my partner): Skinny giant and his middle-aged overweight “dad” ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/62 "2012-12-11T14:52:04Z")
I’ve never noticed such a description on mine. Must pay more attention when I’m eating someplace that isn’t fast food :). I hope for “nice friendly lady”, will settle for “short, with glasses” or descriptions of clothing or current hair color (which does change from time to time). Commentary on my (admittedly too-high) weight or general (lack of) facial beauty would NOT be well-received. If my husband is with me, it would probably mention his hard hat (for some odd reason, about the only time he doesn’t wear it when we’re outside our home is for church), the zillion items attached to his belt, or his shaved head (he says it’s more comfortable under the hard hat). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/63 "2012-12-11T16:59:04Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > This is easy. Gaijin. In restaurants outside of Panama City, they would probably put “gringo” (there being too many gringos in Panama City for this to be a distinguishing description). (Once when I left my car at a garage in a provincial city I found the keys labelled “Jeep: Gringo” when I went to pick it up. And that’s the note the security guard at the building I live in has on the list of apartments.:)) ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/64 "2012-12-11T17:00:18Z")
Fat bald dude. Or, depending on whom I’m with, “dirty old man”. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/65 "2012-12-11T17:00:51Z")
“bad haircut” ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/66 "2012-12-11T17:11:00Z")
Only one I’ve ever seen was “Smiley”. I suspect I’m the tall, skinny chick, but I doubt I can get a meal comped or national attention because of it and it’s a GLARING inju ---
**Author:** ![ducati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@ducati](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ducati)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/67 "2012-12-11T17:16:13Z")
Fat cop. My haircut, and general demeanor often makes people ask if I’m a cop. I guess just quietly observing my surroundings in an interview stance gives me away. Scowling and rebuking skateboarders just cinches it.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/68 "2012-12-11T17:21:14Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Only one I’ve ever seen was “Smiley”. I suspect I’m the tall, skinny chick, but I doubt I can get a meal comped or national attention because of it and it’s a GLARING inju …that’s"glaring injustice". Missed edit. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/69 "2012-12-11T17:33:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Don’t recall ever seeing you in a Hawaiian shirt. You mostly only see me after work, when I’m not wearing them. And I don’t wear Hawaiian shirts anymore, but a lot of people mistake them for being Hawaiian. I think last night our check might have said “Get a room already.” We weren’t terribly subtle. But I didn’t look at the check in all that much detail. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/70 "2012-12-11T17:38:44Z")
Ice woman. I always ask for lots and lots of ice in what I’m drinking. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/71 "2012-12-11T17:49:45Z")
Big Boobs. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/72 "2012-12-11T17:55:05Z")
Middle aged hippie-type woman, perhaps? I get told a lot that I give off a hippie-ish vibe, though I don’t see it myself. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/73 "2012-12-11T18:57:48Z")
At the restaurants where I’m a regular, “Picky, but tips big.” I admit I am picky almost to the point of obsessive about food, but if the wait staff get it right, I reward them well. At ones where I am a stranger probably much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/74 "2012-12-11T19:23:50Z")
Gary Sinise’s brother. I’ve never noticed this on bills before. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-waiters-secretly-calling-you-on-the-receipt/643641/75 "2012-12-11T19:26:59Z")
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