I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Tonight a couple walks in for a reservation. 

Their reservation is for the bar. 

Only I don’t have bar seats.  And it looks like it’s going to be a while before I do. 

I say to them, It’s going to be a minute for bar seats but I can get you seated a table now if you want. 

Here’s the thing, most people.  MOST.   When they reserve at the bar are bar people and they will not sit anywhere else. I assume this whenever, I say to someone it’s going to be a minute.

However, the man says, a table would be great.  We’d actually prefer a table. 

And I say, AWESOME.  That’s actually better for us all around, because we have several more people coming in for bar stools and things aren’t moving. 

He says, something else, and I respond we are glad you are open to this.  And thank you for not yelling at me because the bar stools aren’t ready. 

He laughs and says he doesn’t behave that way, even though he might look like it.

He’s a bit of a bear, with a big beard and a little heavy.  He looks like he might have ridden to the restaurant on his motorcycle. 

I laugh and say that I didn’t think that, but I’m glad to know he’s not that person.    I say, many people I’ve dealt with this summer were less patient and most of them did NOT look like you.

His wife says, OH. YOU MEAN THE PINK AND GREEN PEOPLE,,,

I took this in and laughed and asked her if I could share this observation. 

And she said yes.

So from now one, bitchy people in the summer are going to be called the Pine and Green people. 

That’s is all. 

PS.  I learned to never judge a book by its cover.  Especially in our little community. 

The people in jeans and a t-shirt arrived in a Bentley. 

The people in a suit and tie arrived in a Ford Focus.