Someone… Somewhere… Is NOT Having A Sunday Funday

This is a conversation between a presumably married couple, which my husband and I overheard on a bus. While we weren’t present for any of the interactions with serving staff, I can only imagine how this played out and feel very sorry for the staff in question.

The wife was talking to her husband about a visiting church group who would be in attendance at their church that coming weekend. This part of the conversation got our attention:

Wife: “So, I really want to take the group out for Sunday lunch after the service, and I want to go to [Restaurant], it’s so great there. I went in and spoke to the staff about making a booking for forty people for 1 PM after church. She said they don’t take reservations, only walk-ins, so I said, that’s great, we’ll see you then. She then kept going on about walk-ins only and how Sunday lunch is extremely popular. I don’t know why she kept saying that; I understand that we just walk in and get our tables! I know it’s popular; that’s why we want to take the group there.”

Husband: “Mmm. Sounds like an odd conversation, but great that we can just turn up for lunch with the group.”

Wife: “She then said that the restaurant holds forty customers exactly. Which is great, as that’s the size of our group. This is going to be great. I can’t wait for our lunch.”

Husband: “Thanks so much for organising this, honey. The visiting group is going to have such a great time.”

My husband and I couldn’t decide whether to butt into the conversation to try to reason and make them see sense that the poor staff member was probably bound by rules which wouldn’t allow her to actively turn away business but she was conveying there was no chance they could rock up to a restaurant at the busiest serving time and expect it to be completely empty just to accommodate them.

We decided that we’d probably end up with an argument on our hands for eavesdropping, and that this couple seemed h***-bent on hearing what they wanted to hear anyway.

When Sunday came around, we did feel for the poor restaurant staff and the group who were unlikely to get their promised lunch.