Waiter Accused of Vandalizing Home
Associated Press

CORONA, Calif. - A family who angered a waiter at a Norco Sizzler restaurant later was served a few dishes they didn't order: a gallon of maple syrup, raw eggs, and rolls of toilet paper across their lawn and shrubs.



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good for you, dude. i love how the people in this story make like they are totally innocent and nice and the waiter was the jerk. they must have done something to really piss him off for him to go to this kind of trouble. notice they didn't leave a tip, even after all the unnecessary demands they made. ive worked around the public long enough to know what kind of rude bastards they can be. also, my little sister waits tables and i hear all kinds of stories about rude jackass customers demanding special treatments and then leaving no tip or some pennies on a table. this is precisely why i would never wait tables- you always find some jerk who thinks he should be treated like God and if he isn't he leaves nothing. id probably snap the first day.

QUOTE (DSchwartz @ Jun 9 2003, 09:44 PM)

you always find some jerk who thinks he should be treated like God and if he isn't he leaves nothing. id probably snap the first day.

he he he .. lol
that is right ((DSchwartz)) ..
they really should be treated the same way they treat the Waiter

Reminds me of one time when I was a pizza delivery driver for Straw Hat. Some lady called in an order where our chain did not deliver, but she had coupons and wanted to use them. Could she come pick it up? No, she was watching the children. OK, the place is on the same street as our shop but "just across the road" that defines our delivery area. How far could it be? I'm a nice guy. I tell the manager I'll deliver it.

45 minutes later I get to the place. Our "same street" happens to run clear across town. Nasty place it was, too. Over grown grass with big dead patches. Toys all over. Moss covered bird bath. Chain link fence. And big dog. After yelling for a few minutes (from outside the big dog fence) a person comes out of the house. Today I would have thought Barney with a bad hair day. It was bigger than me by several inches, at least three times as heavy, what looked like a long hair Persian cat fresh out of the dryer on it's head, and wearing a purple tent. And three subhumanoid rug rats followed it. It waddled over to me and snached the pizza. I said, "That will be..." "You ain't gettin nothin' 'till I check it out."

I had to watch it eat almost all of two pieces and pick at the rest before it declared the thing edible. It mumbled something about more pepperoni, or some s***. Said it should be free for taking so long. (I was 15 minutes late). BUT! It did have exact change. Took another 10 minutes to count it out for me, but it was exact.

It didn't give me a tip. In fact, I thought of giving IT a tip. "Next time, call Pizza Hut."

that is some story, Schadeaux. unfortunately, ive heard many of them. a lot of people are so rude and thoughtless.

i worked as a mover once and people would tip us regularly. one time i moved this little old lady from one rat infested nursing home room, to another a few streets away. she had hardly any furniture at all and was very pleasant. we had to ask her to stop trying to move boxes herself. when the hour long move was done, she tipped all of us $20 a piece. i couldn't believe that. she even gave us hugs and thanked us for helping her.

then, i moved a family of millionaire's once. we moved them from a mansion to a place WAY outside of town. while driving up, i thought we were going to a cushy apartment complex on a nice lake. nope, it was one huge house with 3 'wings' connected by glass tunnels. they demanded that we remove our shoes and move all their furniture in our socks(they didn't want to dirty their carpets). they also demanded that we work until 11:30pm so we could move it all in one day (i arrived at work at 6am sharp that day). my boss says "they will surely tip well for this". well, to sum up, my feet were killing me from hauling all that enormous furniture barefoot all day long and we each got $5 tips. then we had to ride in a truck for 1 and 1/2 hours and i got home around 1 AM. can you believe the nerve?

oh yes, i almost forgot the best part. seeing as how i usually arrived home at 4pm, i requested permission to use their phone to call my wife and let her know we would be working extremely late. i was promptly denied by the lady of the house. swell people, really....

I worked as a mover once and I took a side job, something that I usually don't do because they end up bad as did this one. I was talked into it by a friend who needed the work so I reluctantly said yes and we were off to this persons house. Come to find out it we needed to go rent a bigger truck and that cost us 300 bucks no biggie we'd make it up when we got paid.

We pull up to the house, it all looks fine from the outside we set the truck up so it wouldn't roll away on us and went to the front door. The first thing I smelled was cigarette smoke, at first it didn't bother me but getting close the the cloth furniture it was caked with the smell. Later to find that when we walked away from the job us and the truck both smelled like we smoked 10 packs of smokes in that day.

Just about everything in the living, dining and kitchen was packed up except for some electronic equipment they were still using so we load all the boxes and that furniture into the truck. Come to find out that 50% of both bedrooms were left unpacked. So we had to wait around till they got everything packed so we could finish loading the truck. Well we finished the loading and got everything secure for the trip, we start to back the truck out and a car comes to a screaching stop behind us. We stop the truck and get out to see what's going on, it turned out to be the people realtor and he came to say that there were problems with the escrow and it wouldn't be ready for another two weeks.

There wasn't anything I could do about it as I stood there listening to everything and think that it just got worse. Well, the idea was to take the stuff up near the new house and put it into storage. On the way up to the house we had to take the truck up a steep grade, it was going fine until the transmission started to overheat so we pulled over and had to sit for an hour to let it cool down. By this time I was hoping to make more than a couple hundred bucks for my time. We got the truck rolling again and doing 5 miles an hour uphill we made it there in an hour.

Come to find out the only place the had an open storage space was to small for what we had, so the idea was to cram all of it in there and hope it would fit. Since it was summer and the temp was topping out at 105 by the time we started to unload the truck we were hoping it wouldn't take to much longer. Well we took as much of the furniture we could put along the back wall and stacked it and filled the rest of it up to the ceiling with boxes. We continued this stacking with everything we had right up to the door, we had two things left a 27 inch tv and a Lazy-Boy reclining chair. There was just enough room between a table and the fridge to put the tv in, but the delema was the chair. We pulled some stuff and reorganized it a little different so the chair would fit in. We pulled the door down until it was stopped by the handle of the chair and it wouldn't go any further, we pushing, shoving, kicking and just about everything else trying to close the door. Somehow we managed to get the door closed with a outward buldge in it.

We were pulling the truck out of the storage yard and the manager comes out and told us if we were 5 minutes longer it would've cost us 25 bucks to get out. By that time we were just glad to be done unloading the truck, we had an hour ride back cleaned out the truck and returned it before the store closed. Out of the deal I only got 200 bucks and a set of clothes that reaked of smoke and sweat. The total time was something like 10 hours from start to finish.

I forgot to mention that Corona and Norco are about an hours drive from where I live. Although I didn't hear it on the news, then again I try not to watch the news because its so depressing and then I might forget to take my meds and I'll look like this .

Waitresing is a bizzare job ..... I remeber one day one of my colleages was preparing to serve a customer . A small asian gentleman . As is very common in our Restaraunt english was not this mans strong point .

My co-worker a Tall well dresssed attractive and gentle looking lady leaned toward the asian man about to ask " How she could help him", ...
When the slightly built asian man leaned in a little closer , infact only inches from her face and yelled really loudly "I WANT FISH..... The poor girl just stood there < looking like that ...

I had to leave the room , another waitress who was on that day wasn't facing us but I could see her shoulders were shaking uncontrollably . Now we have quite a variety of seafood but I don't think this gentleman was prepared to go into detail . Infact the order in the end read .." HE WANTS FISH....."

DS,

Your reaction to this story is baffling and unreasonably hostile, if you ask me. Granted, no one has a perfect idea of what transpired, yet you have no problem automatically assuming the waiter suffered such intolerable degradation and rudeness that he was justified in vandalizing someone's property. Are you serious? How do you know what it takes to set this guy off, do you know him intimately? Your vitriolic condemnation of the customers behavior certainly wasn't inspired by anything reported in the paper. I wonder if you even bothered to read past the first couple sentences, as you stated "notice they didn't leave a tip, even after all the unnecessary demands they made." The article clearly mentions that the husband didn't bother to leave a tip, but the people he dined with did. The wife asked for a vegetable substitute for her potato, how is that unreasonable? Truthfully, the flippant response about there not being any vegetables available (in a restaurant?) would have made me ask to speak to the manager immediately, but since it seems we're free to make assumptions here, I'm thinking the husband requested a salad just to keep things from escalating. Didn't seem to work, did it?

Rude, obnoxious and downright nasty people are a fact of life. Normal people deal with unpleasantness in different ways, thankfully most of them are admirable and involve self-restraint. Lord help us if we all lost our senses like this clown did. However intolerable this confrontation may have been, it certainly didn't warrant the maliciousness of the response. I can't even imagine what would have, although it disturbs me that you didn't have a problem with it. Never mind that this guy had his two younger (minors, by the way) brothers with him at 1am on a Saturday morning while he took out his vengence. What a fantastic role model, hey?

Magikman

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The waiter rudely responded the restaurant didn't have any vegetables, only baked potatoes, Wayne Keller said.

now that's what i call 'objective journalism'.

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Wayne Keller added he was "scared to death. Scared they're still out there, they're out there hiding, and that they're going to come back. We're still scared."

YEAH RIGHT DUDE! can anyone say, 'cheap jackass angling for a multi-million dollar lawsuit'?

MM, i am making assumptions based on the facts that 1) i have experience working in the service industry and 2) the waiter's side of the story has not been given.

these people were most likely jackasses. why would i think that? because for one thing, if something is not on the menu at Sizzler they insist on it being handmade for them(since the article mentions they didn't serve vegetables). i am a vegetarian and i have never gone to a restaurant and demanded vegetables be prepared especially for me. there was no vegetables on the menu, except for a salad bar(which apparently this woman was too cheap to buy and trying to get for free). the waiter most likely went to that salad bar and prepared her a plain salad and brought it to her with the instructions that she go to the bar and prepare it the way she likes.

also, the article mentions people 'dining with them' left a tip, not that family. what that means is that the in-laws came to eat with them and they did the ole 'PULL SOME TABLES TOGETHER" routine and he did not get tipped from the offensive family. why would an otherwise normal Sizzler employee who has worked that job for 1 and 1/2 years (without incident) go to the trouble of vandalizing someone's home? because they deserved it.

oh yes, it was SO malicious to roll their lawn and shrubbery with toilet paper and pour maple syrup on their yard. geez, he needs to be locked away for like 30 years. what a psycho! that poor family can't sleep because he and his little 9 year old brother might come pour more maple syrup on their mailbox!



and btw, Magikman. i could honestly give a damn what you think of my response. im perfectly entitled to it.

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” Sizzler manager Juan Rodriguez said the waiter had been employed for 1 1/2 years and had not been a problem.”

Golly, another example of ‘objective journalism’. Like the manager is going to admit to the newspaper that this guy has always been a hot headed, ill mannered malcontent who finally snapped. That would do wonders for his business.

” MM, i am making assumptions based on the facts that 1) i have experience working in the service industry and 2) the waiter's side of the story has not been given.” Yes, unfortunately, you’ve already regaled us with some of your more disgusting antics previously.

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we used to love getting jerks at our windows. whatever they would whine about not wanting, we would give extra. whenever they got cranky with us, we would just laugh as a co-worker spit on their food... or worse.

True, they where acts of childish immaturity, but past experiences don’t automatically justify an unreasonable assumption of unsubstantiated guilt That you took pride in your actions no doubt endeared yourself to the countless others who yearn for reasons to act out childishly and irrationally. What an inspiration you must be for the advancement of societal behavior. I’d definitely want to hear the waiter’s version of what happened, especially since he’s already stalked and vandalized someone’s home and thoughtlessly exposed minor’s to his criminal stupidity and recklessness. I’m sure whatever he says will be totally believable and inspire outraged indignation against his mistreatment at the hands of some overbearingly rude customers. Poor thing. Funny, I can’t seem to feel anything but contempt for this jackass and his despicable actions.

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”….. and btw, Magikman. i could honestly give a damn what you think of my response. im perfectly entitled to it.”

Gee, I’m hurt. Besides, knee-jerk, disproportionately over reactive and morally reprehensible responses are your forte’, aren’t they?

nope, they are yours. only change 'morally reprensible' to 'morally superior'

you know what they say though, people get what they deserve. i stand by my childish actions because had you been in my shoes you'd have done the same. have you ever had to put up with one woman coming back to your window 4 times in 10 minutes complaining about the way the mustard and ketchup are not the way she requested them? HER SON WILL ONLY EAT IT IF ITS IN A SWIRLING SHAPE. then having to explain that we don't actually have ketchup and mustard, we have Jack's sauce which is ketchup and mustard mixed together. hell no, that won't do! did you have to open packets of ketchup and mustard and attempt to make little swirls on her .67 cent hamburger? did you listen to her cussing like a sailor and put a smile on your face while handing her your handmade burger and having her inspect it for a swirling motion, only to cuss at you and squeel tires away?

have you ever had to listen to people talk down to you in ways that would make you go over a counter? now, i have never gone over a counter (well, i did once but only to chase a car and watch them speed off) but i saw my friend called a nigger and spit on by an old bigot and he did go over the counter(and he lost his job). had i been in his shoes, i would have too.

the thing is that some people come into a restaurant looking for this kind of thing. they have no power in life so they take it out by being jerks to anyone unlucky enough to be serving them. maybe society protects their rights with our norms but ill be damned if anyone is spitting on me without a fight. call it despicable, i call it having my pride.

speaking of stalking... funny how you seem to stalk me so often. digging up an old post like that? i must really be special. remember when you tried to find out where i worked?

anyways, im done discussing this topic. i just feel i should add that i feel a little insulted by the way you handled the topic, MM. for one thing, your tone from the very beginning was aggressive and insulting to me(calling me hostile when i clearly was not). all i did was post my opinion about this topic and you singled me out and aggressively insulted me for defending the waiter. you made several comments about my morality when to be quite honest, i don't think you have a clue about my moral character(especially considering you've never even met me IRL). have a nice day

Oh yes, I just exude 'moral superiority'.

Was anyone else surprised to see him play the unjustly persecuted and maligned card? Funny how you can opine mind-numbingly egregious and offensive thoughts about overweight and/or old people who make your life a living hell, vilify meat eaters continually because your dietary choice is the only correct one or distort and twist 'facts' in order to justify your hateful rhetoric, but you can't understand why someone would find them 'hostile'. Are you really that clueless, or does everything have to be about you?

But I'm the one who who's morally superior.

You can feel as insulted as you want, like you said, people get what they deserve. Of course I'm only defending my opinion, so none of this should be viewed as being hostile or aggressive. To be quite honest, if I'm exposed to much more of your moral character, I'll need to undergo a full body decontamination. But then I'd lose my divinely granted moral superiority. Nevermind, I'll tough it out. You have a nice day, also, if you're capable of experiencing someithing like that.