What was the point in that? Seriously.

[customersruinmylife]

So, the bar hasn't been opened long, we've had no customers at all. Everything is spick and span and ready to go. Each table is clean and the menus are arranged very neatly (I am VERY anal about the presentation of the tables).

Ah, then we get this bitch.

She doesn't want any menus on her table. Rather than neatly stack the menus, and perhaps place them on to the table next to her or hand the menus over to a member of staff, she choses to THROW them across the dining area, knocking over at least four tables worth of menus onto the floor.

She wasn't even discrete about it. She did it when I was taking her food out to her.

I made a point of cleaning up the menus very loudly, slamming them down and tutting to myself. She remained oblivious.

[PizzaDrone]

Why throw them? Wouldn't it get her much further to just explain she doesn't want them on the table when you take the food over so you can take them from her and store them correctly until she's gone? It wouldn't be so bad, but I bet she was one of those people who, if there were no menus on the table...she would complain.

[karma_gypsy]

Classy ...

[Alpha Strike]

She doesn't want any menus on her table. Rather than neatly stack the menus, and perhaps place them on to the table next to her or hand the menus over to a member of staff, she choses to THROW them across the dining area, knocking over at least four tables worth of menus onto the floor.

She wasn't even discrete about it. She did it when I was taking her food out to her.

Wow! Throw tantrums much do we? That's behavior I'd attribute to a small, badly-behaved child, not an adult.

Should have made her wait for her food while you picked up the menus - put it down right near her but make an obvious show of cleaning up everything before you actually put it on her table.

[bainsidhe]

"Oh, you didn't have to throw those ma'am, I was on my way right over."

You know, your customers are....special.

[Summerfly413]

You should have thrown her food at her

[Stormraven]

If I had an ounce of power in that place - and probably even if I didn't - I'd have put her food away, and told her to get out before I had her thrown out.

[PepperElf]

sounds like she wants her food delivered the same way she handled the unwanted menus.
shied at her of course

[Darkwish]

Maybe put the food down at another (empty) table, pick up the menus, then throw the menus back onto her table! Bonus points if you knock over her drink all over her!

[One-Fang]

Hmmm, if she did it while you were bringing her food - there's your solution. When they've ordered, remove the menus.

[Broomjockey]

Well, it's a bar, so it's seat yourself, and it's order at the bar, so they'd have to bring the menus up with them to get them removed after ordering, but that means they'd have to bring the menus back after the group leaves, making extra work. I don't think that'd work very well.

[DevilBoy]

You should have thrown her food at her

Most fitting response to this situation so far.

[StarSong]

How incredibly rude... and juvenile! I don't understand these people (and I don't want to, either).

[VenomX]

I would have stopped walking. Asked her if she was going to pick them up and fix the other tables.
If she said no I would have said goodbye and took the food right back into the kitchen.

I do something similar at work. If someone messes up a shelf I will ask them to fix it and I will not ring up their stuff until they do. If they refuse I tell them theres the door get out. The bosses dad told me to do it that way.

[taxguykarl]

OK, I'll bite: How old was this SC? Estimates are fine.