So, friends of mine were at the Olive Garden and some chick decides to change her kid's diapers - on the table next to them. Apparently no one else had a problem with it or was afraid of making a scene.
What would you do if you are eating dinner and some mouth breather pulls this shit (literally)?
Ask the waiters to do something.
Etiquette, schmetiquette. Imagine the "fun" if the local board of health hears about that going on. Considering where this apparently happened, I wonder if the other patrons weren't just stunned into silence.
Let somebody else handle it.
:x
Leave without paying and call the health inspector.
It's a tough situation for Olive Garden. Yes, the mother is in the wrong. Olive Garden probably had one of those baby changing tables in their bathrooms. However, Soccer Moms are a very powerful organization to take head on.
Who the fuck eats at Olive Garden?
Pull out a pistol and shoot her down.
Quote from: katmai on August 04, 2009, 11:03:30 PM
Who the fuck eats at Olive Garden?
That's not a proper gas station at all!
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 04, 2009, 11:44:55 PM
Quote from: katmai on August 04, 2009, 11:03:30 PM
Who the fuck eats at Olive Garden?
That's not a proper gas station at all!
No really who eats at Olive garden?
I never met anyone who does.
:lmfao:
You get the entertainment you pay for at Olive Garden, it seems.
Should never have happened as mom should have been unlazy enough to lug poopmaker into the ladies and deal with it there. Did she leave the messy diaper on the table next to the rolls?
Quote from: katmai on August 04, 2009, 11:45:37 PM
No really who eats at Olive garden?
I never met anyone who does.
You must not have many friends who need tabletop diaper-changing services. :P
I would flip the fuck out.
I've eaten there once. They catered some events for a previous job too. I thought it smacked of being prepackaged and industrialized. But the salad was good. :lol: I imagine a lot of small towns can do no better for Italian food, sadly.
Fun fact: The restaurant I visit here in Reno when I want Italian is a place called, unimaginatively, "Johnny's". The walls in the entrance are covered with photos of the owner with all kinds of famous people from Frank Sinatra to Harrison Ford. They all say something like "OMG best Italian food in Reno!!11". My favorite is a pic of Larry Storch with his F-Troop cavalry hat on with old Johnny. It's totally old-school (mafia surely) and horribly cheap for what it is. Reservations a must. Wine list superb.
I like the salad and rolls.
Quote from: PRC on August 04, 2009, 11:12:07 PM
Pull out a pistol and shoot her down.
That would be the way it would work if we had a just society.
Changing liquidy shitty diapers at a restaurant table explodes and destroys any and all polite etiquette.
Does a shitty diaper really look out of place in Olive Garden?
My brother's sister in law did this at a mostly empty restaurant & I was still embarrassed. Even worse, the kid had taken a crap. He was a little shit to begin with, and this didn't make things better.
I had to say something about it, because I was still eating & it killed my appetite. And of course I ended up being the jerk, because everyone else was too afraid to say anything.
Quote from: derspiess on August 05, 2009, 12:36:15 AM
My brother's sister in law
This is the sister of your brother's wife, and not your wife, right? I sure hope so. :D
Quote from: PRC on August 04, 2009, 11:12:07 PM
Pull out a pistol and shoot her down.
Nah. Club her to death with the baby.
Anyway, I would have probably left the restaurant, telling them they have a health and safety inspection coming.
This is the equivalent of someone taking a dump on their seat, because they are too lazy to get to the toilet.
Quote from: Martinus on August 05, 2009, 01:38:12 AM
Anyway, I would have probably left the restaurant, telling them they have a health and safety inspection coming.
This is the equivalent of someone taking a dump on their seat, because they are too lazy to get to the toilet.
I'm not defending the mom in the OP, but taking a dump on your seat and changing a diaper on a table, is not quite the same. Wouldn't you think...? :rolleyes:
I'm beginning to understand why people here say that you fail in making analogies...
Talk to the manager, ask him/her to make it right.
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 04, 2009, 10:03:40 PMWhat would you do if you are eating dinner and some mouth breather pulls this shit (literally)?
Vomit.
Quote from: BVN on August 05, 2009, 03:04:52 AM
Quote from: Martinus on August 05, 2009, 01:38:12 AM
Anyway, I would have probably left the restaurant, telling them they have a health and safety inspection coming.
This is the equivalent of someone taking a dump on their seat, because they are too lazy to get to the toilet.
I'm not defending the mom in the OP, but taking a dump on your seat and changing a diaper on a table, is not quite the same. Wouldn't you think...? :rolleyes:
I'm beginning to understand why people here say that you fail in making analogies...
Why not? Both involve relieving yourself of fecal matter in a place emphatically not destined for that purpose, while being too lazy to go to proper facilities to do so, that are readily available.
Quote from: Martinus on August 05, 2009, 03:24:01 AM
Quote from: BVN on August 05, 2009, 03:04:52 AM
Quote from: Martinus on August 05, 2009, 01:38:12 AM
Anyway, I would have probably left the restaurant, telling them they have a health and safety inspection coming.
This is the equivalent of someone taking a dump on their seat, because they are too lazy to get to the toilet.
I'm not defending the mom in the OP, but taking a dump on your seat and changing a diaper on a table, is not quite the same. Wouldn't you think...? :rolleyes:
I'm beginning to understand why people here say that you fail in making analogies...
Why not? Both involve relieving yourself of fecal matter in a place emphatically not destined for that purpose, while being too lazy to go to proper facilities to do so, that are readily available.
Well, why don't you try to take a dump on a seat in a restaurant and see if people will react differently then in the story in the OP (or in similar stories in this thread)?
I'm very curious about the results... :P
For a Marty analogy it's not a bad one.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2009, 03:46:24 AM
For a Marty analogy it's not a bad one.
:yes: Mere hyperbole and not the usual alchemy.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2009, 03:46:24 AM
For a Marty analogy it's not a bad one.
I'm pretty new around here. Haven't seen much examples of his "work". :P
Quote from: BVN on August 05, 2009, 03:57:16 AM
I'm pretty new around here. Haven't seen much examples of his "work". :P
Then you're in for a real treat. :)
Olive Garden ANGERS ME SEVERELY. :ultra:
If I were in that situation, I would have made just-audible, dry, sarcastic remark about the suitability of the location for changing a diaper.
Quote from: Warspite on August 05, 2009, 05:48:37 AM
If I were in that situation, I would have made just-audible, dry, sarcastic remark about the suitability of the location for changing a diaper.
Leaving the average Olive Garden customer COMPLETELY DEVESTATED.
Last time I went to Olive Garden to use up a gift certificate someone gave me, the bartender had never heard of Jameson. IIRC, as far as the food goes, everything there is just standard Sysco frozen stuff that gets trucked in regularly. Seems to be pretty inoffensive stuff. I dig the salads.
Oh, and there weren't any shitty baby diapers being changed out in the dining area, so I guess that could be considered a bonus. Because that's gross, and people who do that probably need to be beaten until they learn not to.
Fun fact: Olive Garden is owned by the same fine folks that brought you Seafood for Negroes.
I like their food. My principal beef is that the selections are too limited.
This is a fun thread to have breakfast too.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2009, 06:06:48 AM
Fun fact: Olive Garden is owned by the same fine folks that brought you Seafood for Negroes.
I like their food. My principal beef is that the selections are too limited.
Darden Restaurants, formerly GMRI. My dad was a senior exec there from about 1985 to 1993 or so. Ran the facilities ops for the northeast US.
I have several reasons for being severely angry with Olive Garden. First of all, they fucked my dad over and derailed his career--after General Mills spun Darden off, the new management wanted him to relocate to Orlando (the corp HQ is right near Orlando, forget the exact town), which meant I would have gone there. I was like "OSSUM, Florida!" They would have paid relo, bought our old house, and everything. My mom refused to move because "teachers make less in Florida" :rolleyes:
Anyway, because he wouldn't relocate, they fired him for some strange reason and promoted his underling into his job. But the funny thing is, another guy (the midwest facilities guy IIRC) moved down and took the job, and they laid him off like two months later. So basically Darden would have probably fucked us over anyway. :mad:
Also, I hate OG because the Italian food is mediocre AT BEST... though by Louisville standards it's fairly good, since the Italian restaurant scene here is pathetic. But for some odd reason, despite the mediocrity of the food, it's always INSANELY CROWDED. Princesca likes OG and the last time she tried to drag me in there, the damn parking lot was completely full and I tried to park at Bob Evans next door, but that place pays an off duty cop to sit there and keep OG patrons from parking in their lot, so I literally had to just go home and leave her in the dust. :rolleyes:
PEOPLE, THE FOOD AIN'T WORTH A THREE HOUR WAIT. :mellow:
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 06:51:25 AM
Also, I hate OG because the Italian food is mediocre AT BEST... though by Louisville standards it's fairly good, since the Italian restaurant scene here is pathetic. But for some odd reason, despite the mediocrity of the food, it's always INSANELY CROWDED. Princesca likes OG and the last time she tried to drag me in there, the damn parking lot was completely full and I tried to park at Bob Evans next door, but that place pays an off duty cop to sit there and keep OG patrons from parking in their lot, so I literally had to just go home and leave her in the dust. :rolleyes:
Awesome.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2009, 05:56:27 AM
Quote from: Warspite on August 05, 2009, 05:48:37 AM
If I were in that situation, I would have made just-audible, dry, sarcastic remark about the suitability of the location for changing a diaper.
Leaving the average Olive Garden customer COMPLETELY DEVESTATED.
This isn't about them, this is about me.
Warspic
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 05, 2009, 06:56:51 AMAwesome.
My dad used to bring home cases of the frozen breadsticks though. :mmm:
...though I liked the cheesy rolls from Red Lobster better.
hm, I actually like Red Lobster and now I wanna go there.
Oh, the other thing I hate about goddamn Darden is that they have a small chain called Bahama Breeze that has great Caribbean-style food. We had one here that was always jam-packed, but for some reason the fuckers just up and closed it one day. :mad:
You made their chairs smell like farts.
Quote from: Jaron on August 05, 2009, 07:02:27 AM
You made their chairs smell like farts.
:blush: They ought to stop serving so much crap with beans then. :)
Oh, another thing I hate about Darden is that they had one totally unsullied (in my mind) chain, Smokey Bones, that had good BBQ and freakin awesome mini donuts for dessert. It's not as good as Famous Dave's ( :mmm: ), but pretty close. But then they sold it to someone else. If the sale results in the Smokey Bones in Louisville closing, I'm doing a McVeigh on their corporate HQ. :mad:
Quote from: Jaron on August 05, 2009, 07:02:27 AM
You made their chairs smell like farts.
I like letting a fart in a aisle at a supermarket, and watch the reactions of people walking into it. I gotta have some entertainment there. :blush:
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 05, 2009, 07:08:11 AM
I like letting a fart in a aisle at a supermarket, and watch the reactions of people walking into it. I gotta have some entertainment there. :blush:
I find thinking about eating the food entertaining enough. :Embarrass:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 05, 2009, 06:06:48 AM
Fun fact: Olive Garden is owned by the same fine folks that brought you Seafood for Negroes.
:unsure:
Red Lobster.
Hey Cal, when your pop still had his ossum jerb did he ever talk about expicitly targeting the chain at blacks? Either through marketing or menu?
Nope. But then again, he never got involved with marketing. I'm sure they outsourced that stuff. I don't remember him making jokes about "blacks love Red Lobster" or anything, and he's not shy about making racist/sexist/homophobic jokes either.
I've always associated Red Lobster with suburban white folk.
The world's most profitable Red Lobster (or was at the time) is in Suitland, Maryland = NEGRO CENTRAL.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on August 05, 2009, 08:12:43 AM
I've always associated Red Lobster with suburban white folk.
Same here.
Having lived in the South, I always associated Chinese Buffets with Seafood loving Negroes. They would be all over any Buffet that had Crab Legs and swarm the servers the minute they brought out the next batch.
Never seen anyone changing a baby at the table in a restaurant; I'd be quite horrified.
Not sure what I'd do about it, other than be uncomfortable.
Personally I'd throw a grenade at their table.
Love, Internet Tough Guy
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on August 04, 2009, 10:03:40 PM
So, friends of mine were at the Olive Garden and some chick decides to change her kid's diapers - on the table next to them. Apparently no one else had a problem with it or was afraid of making a scene.
What would you do if you are eating dinner and some mouth breather pulls this shit (literally)?
I would have loved this, an excuse to scream at an unknown woman and embarass her, make a scene in a restaraunt and maybe even a free dinner? Perfect.
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 08:22:43 AM
Personally I'd throw a grenade at their table.
Love, Internet Tough Guy
Isn't the correct response to retaliate in kind - say, pull down your pants & wipe your ass with the napkin? :P
Quote from: Malthus on August 05, 2009, 08:25:13 AM
Isn't the correct response to retaliate in kind - say, pull down your pants & wipe your ass with the napkin? :P
I could never do something so filthy. :o
Quote from: Malthus on August 05, 2009, 08:25:13 AM
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 08:22:43 AM
Personally I'd throw a grenade at their table.
Love, Internet Tough Guy
Isn't the correct response to retaliate in kind - say, pull down your pants & wipe your ass with the napkin? :P
Ok, confess, any odd places that you have changed your son?
I'd think the parent could take the child to the restaurant restroom to change a diaper. Changing diapers on a table where people eat is nastily unhealthy, besides being gross for those eating dinner nearby.
Quote from: Strix on August 05, 2009, 08:30:18 AM
Ok, confess, any odd places that you have changed your son?
The most nerve-wracking was on the gravel shoulder of a highway.
Quote from: KRonn on August 05, 2009, 08:35:35 AM
I'd think the parent could take the child to the restaurant restroom to change a diaper. Changing diapers on a table where people eat is nastily unhealthy, besides being gross for those eating dinner nearby.
You have to admit that it would have been funny as hell, in a Monty Python sort of way, if the kid had taken a pee once his diaper came off especially if it hit the table next to him.
Quote from: Strix on August 05, 2009, 08:37:42 AM
Quote from: KRonn on August 05, 2009, 08:35:35 AM
I'd think the parent could take the child to the restaurant restroom to change a diaper. Changing diapers on a table where people eat is nastily unhealthy, besides being gross for those eating dinner nearby.
You have to admit that it would have been funny as hell, in a Monty Python sort of way, if the kid had taken a pee once his diaper came off especially if it hit the table next to him.
Newborns especially have amazing powers of poop projection - Carl once got mom-in-law right in the face.
Someone quietly eating their pasta when an - extra meatball lands on their plate, would be hilarious. :P
Ok now I am grossed out. Thanks.
Fucking parents.
Quote from: Malthus on August 05, 2009, 08:40:00 AM
Quote from: Strix on August 05, 2009, 08:37:42 AM
Quote from: KRonn on August 05, 2009, 08:35:35 AM
I'd think the parent could take the child to the restaurant restroom to change a diaper. Changing diapers on a table where people eat is nastily unhealthy, besides being gross for those eating dinner nearby.
You have to admit that it would have been funny as hell, in a Monty Python sort of way, if the kid had taken a pee once his diaper came off especially if it hit the table next to him.
Newborns especially have amazing powers of poop projection - Carl once got mom-in-law right in the face.
Someone quietly eating their pasta when an - extra meatball lands on their plate, would be hilarious. :P
Or an extra refill from a pee stream.
And now I want Italian food. DAMN YOU CAL.
Quote from: Martinus on August 05, 2009, 08:42:42 AM
Ok now I am grossed out. Thanks.
Fucking parents.
My mission: complete. :D
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 05, 2009, 08:44:02 AM
And now I want Italian food. DAMN YOU CAL.
Don't damn me, damn Darden. DAMN DARDEN TO HELL :ultra:
I sure as fuck ain't going to Olive Garden.
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 05:04:07 AM
Olive Garden ANGERS ME SEVERELY. :ultra:
what if they added a gas station?
It'd be a two hour wait to fill up. -_-
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 06:51:25 AM
Also, I hate OG because the Italian food is mediocre AT BEST... though by Louisville standards it's fairly good, since the Italian restaurant scene here is pathetic. But for some odd reason, despite the mediocrity of the food, it's always INSANELY CROWDED.
Ditto for Cincy. We do have a Carrabba's nearby but I always seem to have bad luck their with service or food. I prefer Macaroni Grill & Maggiano's over both of them, but neither are conveniently located for us.
Nearly all the local "Italian" places here suck bad, the lone exception being a place downtown that is actually quite good.
Macaroni Grill is the best Italian chain place available here. In fact, I had lunch there on Monday with a buddy.
IMO the best Italian chain place overall is Maggiano's, but sadly there are none here.
Of course any family Eye-talian restaurant in Philly beats the living shit out of all of these chains. Same goes for the local Italian joints in the North End of Boston.
If I saw the staff not removing the offending pair I would probably just leave. If they want to run a crappy restaurant I'm not gonna bother with a scene.
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 12:13:18 PM
Macaroni Grill is the best Italian chain place available here. In fact, I had lunch there on Monday with a buddy.
How sad. :(
Indeed. :(
You know what Wop restaurants I really miss?
La Famiglia (of Boston)
that well known one in Mallbro on rt. 20 toward Northboro whose name escapes me right now :blush:
Guiseppe's Pizza (Philly suburbs)
I like Carabas better than Macaroni Grill.
Quote from: Caliga on August 05, 2009, 01:19:20 PM
Indeed. :(
You know what Wop restaurants I really miss?
La Famiglia (of Boston)
that well known one in Mallbro on rt. 20 toward Northboro whose name escapes me right now :blush:
Guiseppe's Pizza (Philly suburbs)
That's what you get for running away from home!
I do miss the Italians. Italian chicks are hot, and the Mafia runs things better than the government does.