hmm.... You know, if you had said yes, that exact moment would have been when the health inspector decided to show up.

It does take "you gonna eat those?" to a whole new level...! Or how about:

"Certainly sir! And I believe the leftover claret on table 17 would be the perfect wine to wash that down!"

Amazing. - j

Where DO these people come from? And, how is it they all seem to find your place??? Oh, FW - you need a l-o-n-g vacation to (hopefully) get away from these NUTS.

YUCK!

I amazed he even bothered to ask permission.

Very very klassy.

Unbelievable.....it amazes me at what people will try to get for free. (as I type this, I am shaking my head in amazement)

It makes me think of a story.....my fiance used to own and operate a cafeteria in a business area and one day a guy walked into the cafeteria and asked for a cup of hot water.....then proceeded to dump ketchup, salt and pepper, stir it up and then put crackers in it....he had made his own "tomato" soup! Needless to say, when he was presented with a bill for one small soup, he wasn't very happy, but they never saw him again at their establishment! (boohoo)

I've read of the do-it-yourself "tomato soup" at Horn & Hardarts cafeteria in NYC...during the Depression. Yep, it's definitely yucky (unless the patron was in dire need).

As a mom, I became so used to cleaning up my kids' plates after they'd finished (that was usually half my dinner)...nah, I never had that impulse in a restaurant.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

The tomato soup story reminds me of my grandmother who used to ask for a water & lemons and then proceed to squeeze the lemons into the water and add several packets of sugar, thus, making her own lemonade. "They won't charge you for it," she would say. I hated going out to eat with her because she always rushed you through eating so the waitress could "turn the table" to make more tips. Once, she ripped into my mother when she said we had a nice two-hour lunch at Tavern on the Green duing a recent trip to NYC. She shut up when I told her it was a $100 lunch and I left a $20 tip. AND it was two hours because it was during the Christmas rush and it took nearly an hour to get served. Mom kept asking me,"Do you think they had to go catch my fish first?"

[She shut up when I told her it was a $100 lunch and I left a $20 tip. AND it was two hours because it was during the Christmas rush and it took nearly an hour to get served. Mom kept asking me,"Do you think they had to go catch my fish first?"]

At first I thought the tip was pretty cheap for squatting for two hours. Then when you said it "took nearly an hour to get served" I thought it was pretty generous.