Christine the Curmudgeon

Tell me…does Christine the Curmudgeon have some sort of neon sign over her head that reads “WEIRDO MAGNET”?

Last night, the Mister and me went to dinner at TGI Friday’s…I had an $8.00 Stripes coupon that was about to expire, and we wanted to use it.

The place was packed for a Wednesday night, there was a wait for tables.  That was okay, though, as we always like to sit at the bar.  So we went into the bar area, and the only two empty seats were on either side of a rather trashy looking couple.  I asked them politely if they could scoot over one seat, so that there would be two seats together we could sit in.  They rudely refused.  Luckily for us, the couple sitting on the other side of one of the empty seats was just leaving, so we had a place to sit.

Hell, if someone comes into a bar and asks us to scoot over one seat, so they can sit together, we always oblige.  It’s just being nice, and we try not to be assholes about such things.

So we’re sitting there, eating our free chips & salsa that they give you for being a Stripes member, drinking our beers, waiting for our food to arrive.  Meanwhile, Trashy Couple has several plates of food in front of them, entrees all of it, as well as an uneaten plate of the free chips & salsa.  I found it very odd that two people would order that much food.

Then our food arrived…Mike had salmon pasta, and I had some of their yummie broccoli-cheese soup, and the chicken finger platter.  I don’t usually use the silverware to eat the chicken fingers and fries, I just pick them up with my fingers, dip into the honey-mustard sauce, and eat.  However, I did use the napkin that was wrapped around the silverware.

That was when the trashy woman, the one who rudely refused to scoot over so we could have the two seats together, taps me on the shoulder and asks if she can have my silverware.  WTF???  Why did she need more silverware, you can’t eat all that food with the same knife and fork?  And why didn’t she ask the bartender for more silverware if she needed it?  I found this to be very odd…just as odd as a stranger tapping my shoulder in a bar and asking me to look up a life insurance online quote on my cell phone.

I refused to let her have my silverware, partly because I was annoyed that she bothered me about it, and that she was rude to me whan I asked them nicely if they could please scoot over one.

Well, apparently this caused them to not be able to eat, because rather than ask the bartender for more silverware, she asked him to wrap up all the uneaten food for them to take home.  He took all of the plates except for the free chips & salsa, wrapped them up back in the kitchen, and came back with a bag full of to-go containers.  Then she demanded that he wrap up the free chips & salsa, too.

I didn’t see how much of a tip they left, as they paid with a credit card.  But I bet it was a cheap one.   Pain in the ass people always tend to be lousy tippers.

I hope that this TGI Friday’s is not their regular one, as I don’t remember seeing them there before.  And I hope never to again.  Obnoxious, weird people!

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