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Balls of Steel
March 04, 2005

So I am out for lunch and while I am eating two ladies walk in to the restaurant. For story clarity, we will call them Lady 1 and Lady 2.


Lady 1 notices that her husband was eating at a table on the far side of the dining room so she went over to say hello. Lady 2 was seated at the table right across from me and received water and menus while waiting for Lady 1.

Soon Lady 1 comes back, whispers something to Lady 2, and when the waiter came over she said, "Just coffee for us, please." And the waiter took the menus and went off to retrieve the coffee.


So pretty soon Lady 1's husband comes over from where he was sitting and he has a doggie bag/to go box in his hand. He leans down, kisses his wife (Lady 1) and drops off the box. Lady 1 then proceeds to open said box and she and Lady 2 began eating the contents.


Let me repeat that so I am clear - THEY ATE WHAT HER HUSBAND HAD LEFT FROM LUNCH.

It took me a minute to register that what I was seeing was actually happening: These two classless tightwads were eating leftovers to avoid buying their own meals. And they did so without any look of remorse or shame.

Not even my open-mouthed, raised-eyebrow stare of disbelief caused them to rethink their plan - they were perfectly happy.


Every day I wake up thinking I have seen it all, but these two women take the cake.


Talk about having balls of steel.

Classless fools.

Posted by Foodwhore at March 4, 2005 10:09 AM

Now THAT was a jaw-dropper!!

Un-freakin-believable.

Posted by: Barb at March 5, 2005 04:39 AM

I can't believe that! Wow. What cheap b**ches! Yikes. Now I've read everything!

I've eaten food my husband has brought home from a great restaurant but not actually grabbed the bag while still in the restaurant! Yikes. Those folks take the cake!

They have a lot of nerve. I can understand that restaurants cost a lot of money but...that is just ridiculous. You should've caught it on film and showed it to the owners of the restaurant so they could ban those folks!

That is an unbelievable story! Thanks for passing it on.

Posted by: RisaG at March 5, 2005 05:50 AM

I think that is totally gross.

No matter how much I love you, you'll never find me eating your scraps or sharing your drink.

I wonder what the hell the waiter thought when he returned to the table to find them eating food they didn't order?

Posted by: veg4me at March 5, 2005 07:09 AM

I'm soooo glad you're posting these things. I'm relieved to know that moronic behavior isn't confined to our restaurant. I've said it over and over but I wonder what it is about restaurants that makes people think it OK to do things they would under no circumstances, ever, ever do anywhere else?

Like change a babies diaper on the table. No, not a changing table, one of the dining room tables. And then leaving it there.

Posted by: haddock at March 5, 2005 10:08 AM

Yes, unfortunately moronic behavior occurs all the time. Wow, incredibly cheap nervy beeeyotches.

Posted by: suzanne at March 5, 2005 05:49 PM

Changing a diaper in a dining room? ARGH!

As for the women eating the doggie bag in the restaurant--tacky. They were, as we would say in the south, trash. That is just trashy behavior.

And I reserve the right to look down my nose at such.

Posted by: Barbara at March 5, 2005 06:26 PM

All balls, no brains.

Posted by: HomefrontSix at March 5, 2005 11:13 PM

wow. Was it at least busy enough for the average person to not notice it?

Posted by: Paul at March 6, 2005 06:07 AM
 
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