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This isn't my story, but a friend's.
He works at a local restaurant that is very popular. A few days ago, while in the middle of making some sandwiches, he managed to cut off his thumb with the INSANELY sharp knives the kitchen staff use to cut some of the thicker meats. Yes. You read correctly: He cut OFF his THUMB!. Needless to say, the entire kitchen had to be shut down due to, well, the tremendous amount of blood being spewed from my friends hand (he's quite a heavy bleeder to begin with. Trust me, I could be an EMT with the amount of experience I have sewing this guy back together).
Anyway, with the kitchen shutting down, the store basically had to close. The front of the store was still doing coffees and sodas, but anything involving the kitchen was not being served until the kitchen had been scoured of any traces of my friend's hemoglobin.
99.9% of the people eating there at the time were completely understanding (and concerned about my friend's well being). Of course, one person wasn't.
This is the conversation that took place as told by my friend who heard it from a waitress working there when the de-thumbing took place.
Waitress: "I'm sorry ma'am, one of our cooks has seriously injured himself and will be needing to go to the hospital to have his thumb reattached. There is QUITE a bit of blood in the kitchen area, and we will not be able to serve anyone anything from the kitchen until we can get everything cleaned up. Here is your money back, and I am so very sorry."
Woman: "Well what the hell was he doing back there? Smoking pot? How the hell do you cut off your thumb while making a sandwich?"
Waitress: "Well, he says that he was cutting a slab of meat a little too quickly and wasn't really paying a lot of attention to what he was doing and, well, sort of sliced it off as he was making the cut. We have verrrrrrry sharp knives."
Woman: "Well, I don't see why you can't just send the boy home and continue serving us. Surely it won't take more than few minutes to wipe up the blood?"
Waitress: "Well, ma'am ,actually, there is quite a LOT of blood on the food prep table. Besides, simply soaking up the blood doesn't eliminate the chance of spreading blood-borne illnesses. We need to sanitize the kitchen completely before we could legally serve you food."
Woman: "What, do you hire people with AIDS?!"
Waitress: "Whether or not he may or may not have AIDS wouldn't stop us from hiring---"
Woman: "THIS RESTAURANT'S MANAGEMENT HIRES PEOPLE WITH AIIIIIIIIDSSSS!!!! EVERYONE, DO NOT EAT THE FOOD!"
Waitress: "MA'AM! That is totally uncalled for! Please! Calm down, take your money, shut up, and leave!"
The woman continued to rant and rave about how the all the customers were going to get AIDS, how my friend is probably gay, and that everyone who worked for (restaurant) was going to Hell. Then she left and apparently called the local police...who sort of just laughed at her.
For those of you wondering, my friend's thumb was reattached, but it's really just there for looks now. It doesn't bend too well anymore, and it kind of pains him once in while. But he's ok. And for the record, he does NOT have AIDS.
He works at a local restaurant that is very popular. A few days ago, while in the middle of making some sandwiches, he managed to cut off his thumb with the INSANELY sharp knives the kitchen staff use to cut some of the thicker meats. Yes. You read correctly: He cut OFF his THUMB!. Needless to say, the entire kitchen had to be shut down due to, well, the tremendous amount of blood being spewed from my friends hand (he's quite a heavy bleeder to begin with. Trust me, I could be an EMT with the amount of experience I have sewing this guy back together).
Anyway, with the kitchen shutting down, the store basically had to close. The front of the store was still doing coffees and sodas, but anything involving the kitchen was not being served until the kitchen had been scoured of any traces of my friend's hemoglobin.
99.9% of the people eating there at the time were completely understanding (and concerned about my friend's well being). Of course, one person wasn't.
This is the conversation that took place as told by my friend who heard it from a waitress working there when the de-thumbing took place.
Waitress: "I'm sorry ma'am, one of our cooks has seriously injured himself and will be needing to go to the hospital to have his thumb reattached. There is QUITE a bit of blood in the kitchen area, and we will not be able to serve anyone anything from the kitchen until we can get everything cleaned up. Here is your money back, and I am so very sorry."
Woman: "Well what the hell was he doing back there? Smoking pot? How the hell do you cut off your thumb while making a sandwich?"
Waitress: "Well, he says that he was cutting a slab of meat a little too quickly and wasn't really paying a lot of attention to what he was doing and, well, sort of sliced it off as he was making the cut. We have verrrrrrry sharp knives."
Woman: "Well, I don't see why you can't just send the boy home and continue serving us. Surely it won't take more than few minutes to wipe up the blood?"
Waitress: "Well, ma'am ,actually, there is quite a LOT of blood on the food prep table. Besides, simply soaking up the blood doesn't eliminate the chance of spreading blood-borne illnesses. We need to sanitize the kitchen completely before we could legally serve you food."
Woman: "What, do you hire people with AIDS?!"
Waitress: "Whether or not he may or may not have AIDS wouldn't stop us from hiring---"
Woman: "THIS RESTAURANT'S MANAGEMENT HIRES PEOPLE WITH AIIIIIIIIDSSSS!!!! EVERYONE, DO NOT EAT THE FOOD!"
Waitress: "MA'AM! That is totally uncalled for! Please! Calm down, take your money, shut up, and leave!"
The woman continued to rant and rave about how the all the customers were going to get AIDS, how my friend is probably gay, and that everyone who worked for (restaurant) was going to Hell. Then she left and apparently called the local police...who sort of just laughed at her.
For those of you wondering, my friend's thumb was reattached, but it's really just there for looks now. It doesn't bend too well anymore, and it kind of pains him once in while. But he's ok. And for the record, he does NOT have AIDS.
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