Ok...I thought I had seen rude people and been in some situations with rude people, but this evening, Mick and I went to Chili's for dinner. It was not very busy, but when we went in the hostess said, "I have a table outside or a high table if you want one of those or you can wait ten or fifteen minutes." Anyone who knows me knows I don't do the outside or tall chair thing, so we politely opted to wait. A couple of women walked in a few seconds after we sat down. The hostess said, "I can seat you outside, at a high top table or I have a small booth in the dining room"...they took the booth. Mick and I are a little bit slow to catch on, but we did find this a bit disconcerting. BUT, when it happened again less than a minute later...another couple, same choices and voila a seat! I could not stand it, I said to the girl, "pardon me, but we were here first and you did not offer us booths in the dining room. Why?" She said, "well, I could seat you in there but I did not want to overwork my waitress". Ok, so does that mean by just looking at us she could tell we were going to overwork
HER waitress!! I could not believe she stood in front of us and seated two couples who came in after us!! We did ask for the manager, the manager apologized and said she would "investigate". We did eat, and it was pretty good. The overworked waitress was kind and was tipped appropriately.
Anyway, just venting.
