'Best $60 I ever made': Steak-eating diners get caught in torrential downpour after refusing to dine indoors

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Feb 14, 2024 11:00 AM EST

These diners bet against Mother Nature and lost badly. That's what happens when you think you know better than everyone around you! 

The weather is not something any of us can control. If we could, we'd happily stop hurricanes and tornados in their tracks. But of course, human beings can't stop hundreds of thousands of raindrops or snowflakes from falling to Earth. 

It's halfway through the 2020s, if we could have this technology, someone would've invented it by now. No, all we have for now is umbrellas and 10-day forecasts. It doesn't matter if you're on a big vacation or if it's your graduation day, a rainstorm can put a damper on that with ease. On a normal day, if you have an umbrella or rain jacket with you, you might barely notice the rain coming down around you. However, this group of nine diners decided that nothing was going to stop their dinner. They were content to eat some steaks and drinks while enjoying this fancy restaurant. It didn't matter to them that their waiter, u/iamjayjayisme, tried numerous times to tell them about an incoming issue. Some people are just convinced they're right 100% of the time. They certainly learned a lesson that day! 

While we're on the subject of wealthy people and their shenanigans, check out this multi-million dollar project that was stopped by a few crafty neighbors. 

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    'She wants to deal with it on her own? You got it'
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    Don't want to sit inside even though a storm is coming? Okay LOC This happened to me a few years ago and I just remembered it recently.
    via u/iamjayjayisme
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    I was working at a restaurant waiting tables in a very affluent area on the Jersey Shore. We had our fair share of entitled people who were under the impression that if you throw enough money around you can do whatever you want and treat people however you want. And when your income depends on their tips, you kind of just have to deal with it.
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    The restaurant had an outdoor dining and bar area that overlooked the ocean with an amazing view. During the summer this was pretty much where everyone wanted to sit rather than our indoor dining area. And for anyone who works someplace with outdoor dining, you know the one monkey wrench that can ruin a very profitable dinner shift: the weather. No matter how accurate the forecast says it's going to be, you can never know for sure. For
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    the most part we never had an issue, because if it started to abruptly rain there would usually be more than enough room inside for all the people who were sitting outside to move it. It's usually a clusterf to keep track of which table moved where, but we always handled it without any issue. Until that one day.
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    We had a large party booked one day in our indoor area that took up more than half our tables. (a 50th birthday I believe) So our indoor capacity was limited. And even on top of the party, there were customers who were weary about the weather so they decided to sit inside also. And then more and
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    more people started sitting outside. My manager did a quick assessment and realized that if it started raining, we would barely have enough room inside to accommodate everyone who was sitting outside. He told us we had to stop seating our outdoor area and to start recommending to our outdoor tables to move inside because of the impending weather to be on the safe side. (Everyone's weather app was saying there was a downpour coming up the coast). Everyone was okay with it, except.....
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    I had a table of nine people who seemed fairly middle-aged and very wealthy. (Margarita's with top-top shelf tequila, gaudy looking jewelry etc etc.) Each end of the table seemed to be in their own conversation not paying attention to the other. Upon hearing about the incoming rain, I go to the woman whom I thought was in charge (she had the fakest tan of them all), and I tell her (Lets call her Karen) "Ma'am I'm really
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    sorry, but because of the weather coming in and our limited seating inside, I'm going to have to move you folks inside so you don't get caught in the rain." This Karen is so entrenched in her conversation she doesn't even register that I, a lowly waiter, was talking to her. So I try again, "Ma'am I'm sorry for interrupting, but-." She cuts me off exasperated, "What? What are you saying?" I begin again. "Ma'am I'm
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    sorry because of the weather coming and our inside filling up, we need to move you inside. We have a table ready for you, I can move all your drinks and everything for you" She snaps back with "The only reason we came here was to sit outside. We'll deal with the weather". I realize she doesn't grasp what I'm saying so I try again. "Ma'am just in case the-" And then she goes from zero
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    to a hundred and yells "We'll deal with it!" She yelled so loudly that the people on the other half of her table heard. They didn't hear our prior exchange but only heard her outburst and went back to their conversation, assuming this must be normal behavior for her. She wants to deal with it on her own? You got it.
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    So I began to take their order. Filet Mignons. A few lobster tails. Expensive s. I put the order in and I look back and all the other tables had moved inside (because they all were rational human beings) and my table of nine entitled j rks were the only ones out there. I heard the leathery- looking Karen say to the rest of the table "Wow we have the entire patio to ourselves, what luxury".
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    After a while I looked inside and saw that the table I had held for them was taken by another party that had just walked in (the last available table). And just as the last b tt hit the seat, I felt the best feeling I possibly could have felt at that moment. A glorious rain drop tapped on the top of my head. Oh sweet glory. Within seconds it went from beautiful blue skies to torrential downpour. Everyone at the table grabbed their drinks (a little watered down at this point) and ran inside. Afte
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    makes a b-line to me and screams "We need a table!". I reply, "I'm sorry ma'am, we're fully seated and on a wait for our indoor seating." (Maybe one table on the waiting list, but a list is a list) "Well what are we supposed to do now?" she hawked back at me which led to me so eloquently saying "Ma'am as you said you would, you 'f deal with it". I airquoted the dealing it' to really 'f emphasize that that was her response and as I said that everyone else at the table realized that was our intera
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    move in. But after she raised her voice and cursed at me, all bets were off. And as serendipity would have it, at that moment their food came out and we handed it to them. There they were. Nine people in damp clothes holding a cosmo in one hand and Filet Mignon in another with nowhere to sit to eat. The rest of her party convinced her just to get some boxes for their food and pay their check and leave. As I hand Karen the check, she smugly says "Well this will be reflected in your tip" to
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    which I replied "Ma'am we implement a 20% tip on parties of eight or more. It's our policy, and it's clearly stated in our menu" She paid and then they left with their boxed up food leaving behind their half-full drinks. Best $60 I ever made.
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    nametakenfan "Ma'am we implement a 20% tip on parties of eight or more. It's our policy, and it's clearly stated in our menu" Way to just stick the landing. That was so satisfying! What a great read
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    + [deleted] Don't with the people that handle your food. It's a simple rule and yet people seem determined to break it in every way possible.
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    Monty916. That was a satisfying read. Well played.
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    mizinamo Well this will be reflected in your tip And rightly so. How dare you not stop the rain from falling on Karen's head! It's all your fault! ... seriously, people. You need to figure out who can influence what.
    via u/mizinamo
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    Tom Marvolo_Tomato. ...and I wonder, still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain?
    via u/Tom Marvolo_Tomato

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