Etiquette question

Hey, you leave Rhody and Schieza OUT of this!!!!

 

Leave? Uh, no.

Here's how I think it should have been handled. You should have told one of the employees, preferably the manager, that two of their customers were being very disruptive. It is up to them to tell people being obnoxious to knock it off.

I bartended and waitressed for many years and there were times I had to tell people to either behave or leave. And I'll be honest, in this case I probably would have said something to them directly, to the effect of "Could you take the swearing and arguing outside?" But that's me, I know not everyone is comfortable doing that.

 

Nice talk. You eat with that mouth?

 

Where's drip?

 

Food fight!

 

I've found a "new media" way to quiet public arguments. Though my iPhone doesn't have video — not that they knew it — I was sitting in a coffee shop last year and a couple broke into an obscenity-laced argument. I held up my iPhone like I was recording it and when they noticed, they shut the hell up.

FEAR YOUTUBE!

 

I have to get one of those.

 

My borther and I were in Vegas for the Holyfield-Douglas fight and we were having lunch at a restaurant in the Imperial Palace the day after when a huge domestic broke out between this couple.

She was pissed that he had blown all the money in no time and he responded with "You know how many women I have fucked since we have been married?" My brother told them to shut the fuck up and it wasn't long before casino security showed up to get rid of them. We saw later that night at Bally's - clinging to different people. It was fucked.

 

Stay and be entertained.

A few months ago Dr. J and I were enjoying lunch on an outside patio when a douchbag started talking on his cellphone loudly -- on speakerphone. He got off the phone and started another conversation when I bluntly told him that I'd like to enjoy my lunch in peace. Dr. J was mortified. I didn't do anything wrong.

 

I vote for stay and be entertained.

When I was in college, I lived in an apartment on Main Street. Far enough away from the bars to be quiet, but close enough to walk to, and sometimes see drunken people walk home.

One night, I heard a bunch of yelling and shouting. I look outside my window and see two guys squaring off. One guy is doing most of the trash talking while a couple of his friends were holding him back. The other guy was trying to walk away.

Then the first guy broke away from his friends and went after the second guy. Second guy decked him. First guy starts whining and crying that his nose is broken. Second guy walks away like he's John Wayne.

(And in case you're wondering the difference between this and my thread on my drug-dealing neighbors, I didn't have kids getting woken up, I didn't have to fear them being harmed by some stray bullet shot by a cokehead, and I didn't have to wake up early in the morning to get the kids off to school).

 

This can work in a number of circumstances. I did it once as a passenger in a friend's car when she was being harassed by an out-of-control trucker on the highway. He backed right off when he thought I was taking pictures/video of him and his license plate.

 

Excellent work. I'll have to remember that next time!