Stupid Guest Tricks

Wombat, you were very polite to have your family move, after all, YOUR FAMILY WAS SEATED, let DodoHead try to move y'all! :twisted:

You and your father-in-law should have picked him up chair and all and tossed him overboard. :twisted:

We had something similar happen to us at Prime Time Cafe last year. We had reservations but they were backed up forever. We waited 40 minutes, (they toldus 30) and I went to the front to ask. I was told I had been seated 5 minutes before. The person calling names had laryngitis and could not yell very loue. I asked where they sat me, cause I wanted to make sure that the person paid my bill. :twisted: I was calm about it but they did nothing about it until they told me they would put me back on the list. (at the bottom)

I said no, I was not going to wait and they could find me a table or move the other group. I was polite about it but was not gonna wait another 30-40 minutes. They were able to sit us in about 5 minutes and I was cool with that, but I really wanted to find the idiot who stole my table.

Multiple scumbags! Having your bill sent to their table sounds very reasonable.

I probably would have done what Vixen said. Have the wait staff check the name. Or if you did not want that, I would have stood or sat in this
case, my ground and made him move. After all, your whole family was there and he was still waiting for his party to come. It was the entire family against one man who had NOT even brought the rest of his party yet. They were NOT ready to be seated. It was obvious he was jumping the line to get a table before everyone got there. He jumped the line and took advantage of the busy atmosphere and bargained on someone NOT putting him in his place. There would have been nothing he could do when you refused to move and started to order your food. He would have had to move to another table or wait til his came up later.

Too bad he did not meet me, the Menopausal Maniac! I am the SGs worst nightmare all rolled up into one liberated, overheated, sweating, with a migraine, hormone raging, hungry and on a diet and not happy with my aging body woman! They will NEVER forget meeting me, :twisted: if they try their little SG tricks.

Poor Ralph, I tell him to *stand clear of the menopausal women* away from me if I see an SG and feel a steam abrewin'!!! :twisted: I don't want to embarass him.

I just take care of the little annoyances and make them go away. I do NOT allow SGs to treat me like a doormat when they know they are being assholes. They just want to get away with pushing people around to puff up their ego and their imagined importance. I just try to make them aware of their little problem. And then I can enjoy my time without feeling like I just had someone's feet wiped on me. That don't cut it in my world. I try not to be rude, but I stand up for myself and if it escalates to rudeness, then I keep it very controlled and quiet, but very firm and if all else fails, I pull the "I WILL call Security if you do not stop....(insert whatever they are doing). if it warrants that much. That is in extreme cases.

The table issue. He would have blinked first, because my fat ass would not be going anywhere and I would have stopped a waiter and said "We seem to have a bit of a confusion here. This man does not know where his table is. Perhaps you could help him find it. His family is probably waiting for him there right now!" all the while smiling at him and then asking the waiter to bring menus as soon as possible. I would have added, "Oh and can you bring water for all of us please. We are very thirsty."

If you START the ordering process ASAP, that SHOULD make him leave. He would have NO argument. If he fights it, then HE looks like he is a jerk and trying to steal your table, (which he is trying to do) but you have maintained control by being very polite and nice and flashing your pearly whites the whole time. :D:

Just me and my inability to give into the SGs. I have been jerked around enough in this lifetime and I do NOT have to keep taking it. I spent a good many years being a *nice* girl and always getting used and stepped on. No more. That does not mean I go out looking for a fight, but I will keep my wits about me to handle such things IF they come up.

I still am a very *nice* girl, well...a fun and happy growed up woman! :D:

Oh well, it is in the past and you got a table right away. IF however there had NOT been the available table, I would NEVER have backed down to the jerk. They know many people just won't hassle with fighting for the table and they can get away with it. :mad:

I am glad you had a great trip! You are bound to run into SGs if you go to a Disney Park or on a cruise. Comes with the territory!
Susi*Hell on Wheels*slicker :p:

Good suggestions all. Two slight flaws -- the person checking the list is way back down the hall, not in the restaurant, so it wouldn't have been easy to check who was called. And it was a buffet, so we'd have to get up to serve ourselves, so we could lose the table battle when we got up.

I was ready to raise a holy stink if we hadn't been seated so quickly thereafter, but since we were, it probably worked out as best as it could. I just wish there had been some kind of retribution against the SG. (I know "vengeance is the Lord's," but it sure would be fun if He'd let us help out sometimes. :twisted :)

Musical chairs! Five people sit, person A goes to buffet. Person A returns, takes person B's seat, person B goes to bufffet, etc., etc.
I think even the most brazen SG would give up by the time Person C came back with a plate.

BRWombat wrote:So, again, what would you do?

They serve hot soup on that buffet, right? .... :twisted:

Mar wrote:Musical chairs! Five people sit, person A goes to buffet. Person A returns, takes person B's seat, person B goes to bufffet, etc., etc.
I think even the most brazen SG would give up by the time Person C came back with a plate.

LOL :D:

Zazu wrote:They serve hot soup on that buffet, right? .... :twisted:

I would think you prefer coffee :p:

I went to dinner last night at Denny's, waited to be seated, ordered food and drinks, got up to use the restroom, I had to "rest" really bad. got back to my table to find the dumb moron who seated me, had now seated someone else at my booth. boy, I gave the manager a ear full. he reseated the people seated in my seat. and I got my whole dinner for 5.00, plus some coupons for next time.