Stupidity Is Spreading Like You-Know-What

I’ve been back at work for about a month, and every shift, there’s always at least one person that has their brain completely switched off. The other day is a prime example. My restaurant is on a limited menu while most of our staff is still furloughed. I’m greeting a table, and a woman interrupts me, shaking her menu at me.

Woman #1: “Are you back to your full menu or is this all you have?”

Let’s try to work through this together. I’ve given you a limited menu. I have not given you the regular full menu. What can we infer about our availability given this information?

Two days later, I’m opening the bar. Right when the doors open, this other woman makes a bee-line for the bar that has no chairs at it.

Woman #2: “Is the bar open?”

No! You can tell that by the fact that there are no chairs here.

My first week back, an eccentric regular was asking about our sanitation practices.

Regular: “Are you able to sanitize the glasses and plates?”

Do you mean WASH the dishes? Yes, it’s been our practice to WASH the dishes after every use. Even before there was a worldwide health crisis.

I have these interactions several times a week. Have people always been this stupid? Have I just forgotten that while being furloughed for two months?