A Waitress Told A Customer To Finish His Pie And Leave After He Asked A Question, Not Knowing His Friend Planned To Leave Her A $1,000 Tip
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Sometimes, being rude to a customer can cost you a lot more than you realize.
In the following story, we’ll meet a man who stopped at a small restaurant with a friend after a weekend of drag racing.
They enjoyed their food and ordered dessert, but when his pumpkin pie arrived warm with ice cream, he asked the waitress about it because he’d never had it served that way.
Rather than explain, she loudly insulted him and told them to finish eating and leave, while some of the locals laughed and clapped.
So his friend paid the bill without arguing, but once they were outside, he explained that the waitress had just missed out on a tip worth at least a thousand dollars.
Read on to see what he decided to do with the money instead.
Be kind to your customers
Long ago, before my wife and kids came along, I spent my weekends drag racing. Eventually, I was competing in Outlaw 10.5 and bracket classes throughout the Southeast of the USA.
Like a lot of competitive “sports,” you find a connection with your competition.
I was facing Tommy (not his real name) in the finals one weekend at a 1/8-mile track, but I had a problem with a part inside the transmission and was not going to be able to run. He heard this and came to our tent, asked what part we needed, and returned a few minutes later with the spare for HIS car. I still lost, but from then on, we became close friends.
From the moment they walked in the door, people started staring.
A couple of years later, on the Sunday morning after another event, we decided to stop at a small local restaurant before we parted ways. We pulled into the lot, me with Florida plates and him with Tennessee plates, and headed inside.
After we ordered, we noticed the locals were staring at us. There was a lot of whispering and finger-pointing toward our trucks in the lot.
The food was good, so we ordered some dessert… This is where it started going wrong. I was surprised to see pumpkin pie on the menu in summer, so I had to have it.
When it arrived, the pie was warm and served with vanilla ice cream. I’d never seen it served that way before and asked the waitress about the pie.
Apparently, the waitress is not a fan of outsiders.
She immediately started a loud diatribe with, “All the pies are made here each day. There’s nothing wrong with it. You just don’t know what real pie is. So why don’t you finish your pie and get the **** out of here before you have something to really complain about?” She promptly dropped the check on the table, and several locals were laughing or clapping.
I’m a big guy, but I’m not fighting a restaurant full of rejects straight from the set of Deliverance. I reached for the bill, but Tommy said, “I’ve got it.”
He pulled out a money clip full of hundred-dollar bills, handed one to the waitress, and waited patiently for the change.
Unfortunately for her, she would’ve had the whole clip.
Well, Tommy is absurdly wealthy. He has a massive house, a huge workshop full of supercars… and a private jet. Yeah, that wealthy. He grew up poor, worked his *** off, and got lucky with some small business ventures. He owns a large portion of the town he lives in and is probably one of the finest humans I know.
Every single time we’ve been out to eat, he drops a tip that would, and has, made any server cry. He takes great joy in seeing that look on someone’s face, hoping that it changes their life for the better.
We walked outside in complete disbelief. You always hear about rednecks in small towns disliking strangers, but I’d never really seen it before.
Tommy turned to me and said, “Talk about bad timing. That entire money clip was her tip. I’ll just give it to a charity in Tennessee.” It had to be at least a thousand dollars. I almost wished he had told her it was supposed to be for her, but then I probably would have been stabbed with a dirty fork.
Wow! She really missed out!
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This person is right, it can be very hard.
Here’s how this person wishes it would’ve happened.
That’s a great question.
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This can be so true.
There’s no sense treating anyone like that.
He simply asked a question, and she should’ve answered it without insulting him or making a scene in front of everyone.
And the people laughing and clapping were no better, because there was nothing funny about how she treated him.
As for the tip, it’s a good thing that money went to charity instead of someone with that attitude.
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