Your Most Embarrassing Restaurant Moment(s)

[Hopey]

A few months ago I was at a nice-ish restaurant for dinner with my wife. I had ordered the steak, and had a small piece of it on my fork as I was talking to her. I tend to "talk with my hands" quite a bit, so I was moving the fork around (with meat attached) as I was emphasizing a point.

Sure enough, the meat flew off my fork and landed on the table next to us -- right between an older couple who had just been seated. I apologized profusely as I got up and grabbed the piece of meat off of their table.

The thing that pissed me off a little later is that the older couple acted quite offended and they both glared at me as I apologized...like I'd done this on purpose. No sense of humour, apparently.

[El Diablo]

AEKD,

"Needless to say we have never returned..."

I'm also confused by this.

[Hopey]

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AEKD,

"Needless to say we have never returned..."

I'm also confused by this.

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They lost his business for embarassing him so badly.

['Chair]

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AEKD,

"Needless to say we have never returned...for fear of running into that same guy again waiting for food."

I'm also confused by this.

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maybe I'm the only one who feels that it was rude as hell to assume the only thai-looking guy in the waiting area worked at the thai restaurant?

immediately after the incident, the time spent standing beside the guy was awful. He was not happy about what happened and gave me the evil eye every time I looked in his direction.

for all the crap that I have taken in this thread, I will go in and eat there tonight..sit down style.

[guids]

this cant be true, no one wears sweatpans on a date.

[mosdef]

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for all the crap that I have taken in this thread, I will go in and eat there tonight..sit down style.

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Try to not to do anything racist.

[Runkmud]

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Thanks, I've read the story before, but it's been a while, good stuff.

[Hopey]

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Thanks, I've read the story before, but it's been a while, good stuff.

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I read this story years ago...and it still made me sick to read it again. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

['Chair]

Shajen, CaptZ, Hopey - nice stories.

Shajen - sic

CaptZ - i hate kids (and feel they have no place) in nice restaurants

Hopey - old ppl are intolerant and bad tippers.

[hawk59]

when i was like 7 years old i was at a sports bar type restaurant with my family, and i see a room off to the side with arcade games, basketball hoops, etc. so i go running off into the room and ran full speed into a glass door in full view of the entire restaurant.