Man, I wish I knew about your site before I hired the caterers for our wedding... I TOTALLY would have hired you!

But now every time I read a post about at trick at a wedding I get jealous that it's them and not you. Only a month more.

OMGosh - I may could have restrained myself enough and not made her wear the strawberries out of the kitchen. However, once she snapped her fingers at me - well, all bets would have been off. She probably would not be snapping her (subsequently) broken fingers for a long, long time.

*Breathe*

Snapping fingers at me - still trying to imagine I'd have a semblance of composure left...

Nope.

It wouldn't have happened lol.

I guess I'm not mellowing with age after all LMAO.

You felt bad for 32 seconds? About what? Losing your relationship with God for a moment? That, I can see. Feeling bad about HER hearing what you had to say...nope. Not even for a second. But I'm a red-headed b!tch so it's all good...

I will ditto what HF6 said, except the red-headed bitch part. I'm a brunette, after all.

The important thing is that you got over it. I'm willing to let that 32 seconds of weakness slide, for now...but you have to keep that in check. If you go soft on one snotty B#@!* of a guest, then word will get out, and it's nothing but work work work all the time. So just watch that it doesn't become a problem, say any longer than 40 seconds, or if you should feel bad twice in the same event. Just ask for help, we love you.

Paul

I am not cut out to work in a service industry.

I agree with Valerie...and the snappin' of the fingers...she so would have been in trouble.

With all due respect to the person who posted above, I wouldn't classify catering as a service industry by a long shot. Regretfully, perhaps, some clients -- like the b**** in the wedding party -- view it that way, however.

I used to be a flight attendant so I have encountered some of this behavior from low life forms masquerading in designer clothes and designer attitudes. Real class doesn't snap fingers; it sounds like she missed that lesson somewhere along the line.

c'mon....what did you say under your breath, in ear shot?????

Ooh, she deserved a big fat loogie on her strawberries for the finger snappin.' Snap this, B**ch!

Excuse me. I just lost my mind there for a sec

So maybe you're saying that a few years ago her demand for strawberries would have gotten a raspberry in response?

You are nicer than I am. She would have been wearing the damn strawberries if it were me. I guess that is why I didn't go into catering.

We dealt with a similar situation a few years back: young couple paying for everything. They chose simple hors d’oeuvres, with a grilling station. There were a few café tables scattered around their hillside cabin, with Samsonite chairs. Budget…but sweet.

The morbidly obese MOB (mother of bride) waddled up to the grill and shrieked at me…..”What the fuck is this for food? You are filling them up on BREAD!!” I struggled to find a response as she plopped indignantly down on one of the plastic chairs. It immediately buckled and dumped her down the hill, through a stand of poison oak and onto an ant hill. It took six of us to get her back to level ground….It was hard to climb while laughing hysterically, you see.

Proving once again that there is a God….and she has a sense of humor.

I am ever so lucky that in my catering jobs, my clients have been cool people.

I have never had anyone snap fingers at me. But, I have waited tables for some really disgusting examples of humanity at its worst.

People like that really irritate me, but what is worse, they make me sad--because no one has to be that way.

For the most part our clients are great. But there's that 20% or so that can bring you to your knees.

That's why I blog.

And drink. :-)