Has it happened to you? Where you were waiting to get served at a counter and the person behind the counter served someone else before you even though you were there first?
It happened to me today. Twice actually, one after the other. I was at a bakery where you can pick up a ready made sandwich and give it to the person behind the counter to heat up. I also wanted to order some other stuff. Anyways…
I am there, holding the sandwich, waiting to be served, then this old bastard out of nowhere comes and starts ordering and the girl starts serving him. I was peeved, but I was still looking at what else to order while holding the sandwich so I did’nt mind too much. After finishing with that customer who butt infront of me, another lady calls out “I want a dozen bagels” and the girl behind the counter starts serving her too. At this point I was pretty pissed.
Now you don’t know me, but I am one of those people who has a very low patience level. The fact that I didn’t shout “WTF!?” to the girl behind the counter when the first guy butt in, was proving that I was having one of those days where my tolerance level was very high.
When the loud-mouth-call-out-your-order-out-of-nowhere woman came, thats what did it. So anyways at this point, I gave the girl behind the counter shit for not serving me first. Told her that I was there before the old bastard, and the loudmouth woman. She responded with “oh I thought you were still looking, so I served them.”
“I am holding a fucking sandwich waiting to be served, because I can’t get the things myself. Thats what people do at places like this, they often look inside the counter window to see what else they want WHILE they are being served.”
“I’m sorry sir.” She says.
“You’re fucking lucky I wasn’t in a hurry today. I would have thrown this sandwich right at you.”
“Sir now you are being rude.”
“I might throw it now then. The last thing you should say is that I am rude. I shouldn’t even have to pay for this sandwich for your shitty service. Heat up my sandwich, and give me one of those meat patties and heat that up too. The next time you see me in here, you better mentally register at what point I was in the queue when there are other people in here.”
Girl: *grumble* *grumble*
“Don’t grumble… you’re the one who fucked up.”
Complete silence at that point, I order the rest of my stuff, pay for my food and not another word came out of her mouth.
She probably ended up telling a friend or venting to another co-worker about a bad customer she had. That’s probably the part that gets me the most.
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I hate it when that happens. Though I wouldn’t have reacted like you. I would have told her off of course, but a little more politely.
I would have said something right away when the guy did it.