I Came, I Complained, I Became An Employee

Customer: “I’d like a table for two, please.”

Me:” For two? All right, it should only be about a minute. We have some tables being cleaned right now.”

Customer: “Oh, okay.”

(Thirty seconds later…)

Customer: “Oh, my god! What is taking so long?!”

Me: “I’m sorry, ma’am, our busser is still cleaning the table. He should be done in a couple of minutes.”

Customer: “Ugh! Well, this is just taking forever. Y’know, at my house, it wouldn’t take me this long to clean up my table!”

Me: “Umm… want a job?”

Customer: “What?! Oh… that was good.” *smiles*

(After that, she calmly waited for the table to be cleaned.)

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