Very Late Idiot

[customersruinmylife]

I'm moving house tomorrow, so last night my parents decided to take me out for a meal. We didn't book a table, and were surprised to get there and find the restuarant very busy. Thankfully, we got seated, but it was so full we were near the entrance. Ah well, no biggie.

A little while later, a man enters, along with a wife and two children.

SC: Hi, I booked a table.
Waitress: OK then, can I take your name please?
SC: Smith.
Waitress: Smith...(she looks at the book)
SC: We're a little late...
Waitress: Sir, I have you booked for a table for four at 6:30pm...
SC: That's right!
Waitress: Sir, it is now 8pm.
SC: Yes, well, I told you we were running late.
Waitress: Yes, just now. I'm afraid we have given your table away.
SC: What?! I booked a table!
Waitress: Yes, for 6:30pm, that was an hour and a half ago.
SC: Now what are we supposed to do?
Waitress: I am afraid you have two choices. You can wait here until I find you a table, or go elsewhere.
SC: But we booked a table! This is ridiculous!
Waitress: But it does not save the table for you for the whole night!
SC: Fine, we'll go somewhere else! I have hungry children you know!

Yes, yet another idiot who chose not to feed his kids til 8pm and blames everyone else for it.

[Becks]

But...but...he booked a table!!

And I don't think he specified what time zone the 6:30 reservation was for.

[Primer]

Sounds like what my dad did for my parents' 25th anniversary. The reservation was for 8pm. I showed up at 7:45 (arrangements were to meet them there). I gave up at 10. At least I was old enough to get a few drinks at the bar while I waited!

[MrSunshineState]

*snip*SC: But we booked a table! This is ridiculous!*snip*

Ah yes, the only phrase a customer seems to know. Due to the lengthy usage of the word ridiculous by customers in my life, I have completely stricken the word from my vocabulary. It's overused and has no impact anymore.

[NightAngel]

Heh.

I generally don't hold movies for anyone. I make an exception for those who have come in, shopped, waited in line and then discovered they forgot their wallet or whatever. I tell them I'll hold their movies for ONE hour.

I can't tell you how many times I've had someone come back 3 days later and say, "But you were holding the movies for me!"
Yeah, for an hour which lapsed 71 of them ago.

[powerboy]

At my last job, we were only to hold items for 1 day. We would always hold items for up to a week, for this one customer. This one customer bitched at us, because we didn't hold his movies for him. He finally came back in, 3 months later