Friday, June 20, 2008

So Klassy

So there's this couple that comes in a few times a month. The assumed wife is moderately attractive, Asian and in her 40s. The husband is pushing 80, looks like Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future III, wears only Hawaiian-print shirts and walks with the most horrendous limp that I'm amazed he manages to stay upright. He kind of drooly and overall just nasty. They only drink water. They order linguine with white clam sauce. The woman is reserved (I actually don't think I've ever heard her speak), but the guy is just voracious and sloppy. The servers turn away while he eats.

So one day they come in and I'm the lucky server who got to take care of them.

Me: The usual tonight folks? Linguine with white clam sauce?
Dr. Emmet Brown: Yep, that's right.
Me: Anything to drink?
Dr. Brown: Nope, just water.
Me: No problem. Would you like to start with an appetizer?
Dr. Brown: No, just the pasta.

So I pour them water and go to put the order into the computer. I turn back and walk past their table and behold:

The guy has placed his spoon onto his bread plate and is shaking the cheese shaker furiously filling the spoon with cheese. He proceeds to, you guessed it, eat the cheese.

So disgusting.

Talk about an amuse bouche.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I once had a blue-haired lady furiously eat butter from a rammekin and knife without any bread. She dipped the knife in the butter, and licked it off the knife. This woman also makes forty-two modifications to a fourteen ingredient chopped salad. She is all class. Luv- Jarrett

Anonymous said...

I stopped using cheese from the shakers after I saw a little girl apparently practicing fellatio on the shaker, giving particular attention to the lid while her mother watched dispassionately,neither concerned about her daughter's future as a vacuum cleaner Lolita nor the hygiene issue other guests may have. The mother said nothing to the waiter.