Café Karen complains that her pieces of toast aren't the same size, gets smaller ones: 'You want your two pieces of toast the same size? As you wish.'

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Oct 5, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

There's a lot to complain about in this world—if you go looking for it… but who wants to live their life like that anyway? You're far better off putting that time and energy towards something productive and just getting on with it rather than falling into that line of thinking. Regardless, you're determined to find something to take issue with… the size of your toast probably isn't one of them worth worrying about—there are plenty of other things that should take priority on the list

Who knows. Maybe this customer has just been having a bad time, and this is the thing that sent her over the edge, the proverbial straw that broke the back of the camel. Yet, it stands to reason that it's never ok to go around spouting wildly entitled behavior and treating waitstaff poorly. Still, this customer demanded that her two pieces of toast be the same size, the café staff maliciously complied with her request, resulting in two pieces that were exactly the same size but smaller than she had started with. 

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    You want your two pieces of toast the same size? As you wish. S Long time lurker, first time poster. I (F33) live in a regional coastal town in Australia, and used to work in a great little family run cafe. Think great coffee, yum food, beautiful garden courtyard, and mostly wonderful customers.
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    One summer, during school hols, on a heaving Sunday morning, I was zooming around doing a quick dish run and started clearing some empty mugs from an older lady (60s) with her 2 young grandchildren. She had just received her breakfast and was adding condiments to her 2 pieces of toast.
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    She stopped me and said "I'm just looking at the menu and I can see that I paid the same price ($3) for each of these two pieces of toast, but ... they aren't exactly the same size". I look at her toast and they are both large, but one is approx. 10% smaller than the other, so I assume she's just making convo and I smile, say "yeah", continue grabbing items.
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    She stares at me and says again "they aren't the same size, but I paid the same for each of them, that's not really fair?" I realise she's serious and start telling her that this is because we use a local, handmade sourdough from a beautiful wood fired bakery baked literally just 7km away. The loaves are rustic not factory perfect. She's not having a bar of what I'm saying, insisting she's paid the same price and she wants two piece of toast the same size. This is when my incredulity ends and my
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    "Fine, I'll be back in a couple of minutes". I take her toast into my boss (F33), tell her the story, and she's like "say no more friend, I've got it", proceeds to cuts two equal size slices of bread from the smaller end of a loaf, and toasts them perfectly.
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    I then have the pleasure of taking two pieces of obviously smaller toast to the lady, and say 'here's your two pieces of toast - the same size!! The look of shock, turn anger, turn embarrassment on her face was absolutely delicious. You want to behave like a toddler then you can eat like one too.
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    Classic-Music... 17h ago • • "They aren't the same size." "That's because you ordered two pieces of toast, ma'am, not a pair of toast. We here at The DGAF Cafe believe that each fantastic piece of toast is special in its own way, without rival. You want jelly with that?"
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    harrywwc 17h ago • while I don't own a café (I do live in a pretty cracker part of Oz), this is exactly what I would have done. although, being the crabby old I am, I might have said "yeah that's the price for the smaller slices, so you're getting the bigger one - cheaper want me to replace it?".
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    Feagaimaleata • 14h ago I don't think I have ever looked at the size of the toast that comes with my breakfast, let alone complained about it.
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    Linswad ⚫ 17h ago I thought you were going to cut the larger one down to the size of the smaller one.
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    AluminumAnt... • 17h ago I woulda told them that the smaller of the two pieces was standard size, and the other piece has bonus surplus just for them!
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    Key-Coyote-9... • 17h ago Now that's a solid burn!! That lady was toast
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