This past week has brought two rather creepy people into my life. Have people always been this weird and I just never noticed, or are people getting worse as time goes on?
Person #1: During one of my lunch breaks Nathan and I were browsing through Barnes & Noble. One of the displays was too small for the stroller to fit around, so I parked the stroller on the side of the display while I was looking at the other side (with Nathan in clear view and my hand on the stroller).
I got the weird feeling that someone was behind me, or looking at me. I looked over at the other side of the display to find a little old lady staring down at Nathan with an odd look on her face. I immediately went into protective mom-mode and strolled to a different aisle away from the creepy old lady. Just looking at her you would think this lady was the perfect little grandma, which could be how she gets away with her creepiness.
I later saw her in a different part of the store with her hand on a little boy's shoulder (he was maybe 6 or 7 years old) talking to him. I watched for a bit and he quickly ran away from her and said, "NO! I'm not lost!" She was browsing Barnes & Noble for lost children. I was temped to call security.
Person #2: Yesterday I attended a surprise baby shower for a most perfect and beautiful friend at a local restaurant. Our waitress was horrible and creepy (of course we got awful service, the curse has not let up, I just haven't blogged about it in a while). While we were waiting for the guest of honor to arrive our waitress didn't even come in to offer us drinks. We waited for 45 minutes before she took our drink order. When she got to me I told her that my table was ready to place our dinner order (since we'd had 45-freaking minutes to look over the menu). She said "I'm just doing drinks now, I'll take your dinner order later when I bring the drinks cause some of these will take a while," and walked off. After I scraped my jaw off the floor I just about wanted to cry because I was SO hungry.
When she finally came back to take our food order she decided it would be appropriate baby-shower conversation to tell us about how her brother died from an allergic reaction. Ok not to be insensitive about her brother's death, but that had nothing to do with our conversation. She just started talking about her allergy to scented lotion then about her brother's food allergy. Excuse me, but weren't you supposed to be putting in my food order by now? And thanks for ruining the festive mood of the shower.
After we were done eating she announced to the table that she didn't want to be tacky (too late for that), but that her tip wasn't added in to the check. Uhhhhh, that right there just docked her tip even more.
Then to top it all off she found Sarah (the most perfect and beautiful pregnant friend) on MySpace and asked to be her friend. This lady has some serious social issues.
Person #1: During one of my lunch breaks Nathan and I were browsing through Barnes & Noble. One of the displays was too small for the stroller to fit around, so I parked the stroller on the side of the display while I was looking at the other side (with Nathan in clear view and my hand on the stroller).
I got the weird feeling that someone was behind me, or looking at me. I looked over at the other side of the display to find a little old lady staring down at Nathan with an odd look on her face. I immediately went into protective mom-mode and strolled to a different aisle away from the creepy old lady. Just looking at her you would think this lady was the perfect little grandma, which could be how she gets away with her creepiness.
I later saw her in a different part of the store with her hand on a little boy's shoulder (he was maybe 6 or 7 years old) talking to him. I watched for a bit and he quickly ran away from her and said, "NO! I'm not lost!" She was browsing Barnes & Noble for lost children. I was temped to call security.
Person #2: Yesterday I attended a surprise baby shower for a most perfect and beautiful friend at a local restaurant. Our waitress was horrible and creepy (of course we got awful service, the curse has not let up, I just haven't blogged about it in a while). While we were waiting for the guest of honor to arrive our waitress didn't even come in to offer us drinks. We waited for 45 minutes before she took our drink order. When she got to me I told her that my table was ready to place our dinner order (since we'd had 45-freaking minutes to look over the menu). She said "I'm just doing drinks now, I'll take your dinner order later when I bring the drinks cause some of these will take a while," and walked off. After I scraped my jaw off the floor I just about wanted to cry because I was SO hungry.
When she finally came back to take our food order she decided it would be appropriate baby-shower conversation to tell us about how her brother died from an allergic reaction. Ok not to be insensitive about her brother's death, but that had nothing to do with our conversation. She just started talking about her allergy to scented lotion then about her brother's food allergy. Excuse me, but weren't you supposed to be putting in my food order by now? And thanks for ruining the festive mood of the shower.
After we were done eating she announced to the table that she didn't want to be tacky (too late for that), but that her tip wasn't added in to the check. Uhhhhh, that right there just docked her tip even more.
Then to top it all off she found Sarah (the most perfect and beautiful pregnant friend) on MySpace and asked to be her friend. This lady has some serious social issues.
This is how I felt about her service:
Nathan used to be so small ...
Now he's a football captain.
They grow so fast.
10 comments:
Eww. CREEEEEEEEPY. Seriously. What in the world? Did your friend DENY that crazy waitress's friend request? Man, people are bizzare.
He's cute even when he's making that grumpy face.
Yes. A Friends marathon is a good idea. BTW I do own all 236 episodes sitting on top of my televsion. Maybe when we get furniture you can come over. Ha!!
I still have the curse, too. I am known for it with my family and close circle of friends. :)
I think Nathan's reaction to the bad service is highly appropriate. He is learning young that when a woman is upset, HE must be upset, too!
My word verification is fhoncy. That is the closest I have come to an actual word.
"Tonight, I am going for a fhoncy dinner with my friends." Hahah!
I wasn't going to comment, but my word verification is 'oochne'.
You and the restaurant service, what's the deal? I miss you guys, but I don't miss the bad service. Is it only in Salt Lake or would it happen if you visited us in Denver too?
I'm about to link to you on Judah's blog. I'm the one who does the links and stuff, so sorry it's taken so long. Peace.
i will never go out to eat with you... this is sooooo NOT normal.
(nathan's a cutie. you done good, mom)
Woman--you should have called security. Seriously, I'm all creeped out right now; I just might grab all three of my munchkins and throw them in my bed, you know--just to be safe.
and MySpace creeps me out anyway. People don't even blog on there--it's just a way to put your information out there, get checked out by creeps and invited to "be friends", and it...well, it sounds a lot like a blog. damn.
whatever. IT'S CREEPY.
(cute football captain!)
Definitely creepy, and I think maybe people are getting creepier. Or perhaps this comes from my back yard facing an alley of one of my city's major streets...
I'll be working in Sugarhouse? I think that's it near 2100 E. Forgive me.. I'm still learning my way around this fun city. Lunch would be good though if I'm anywhere close. Im the only person in the office most of the time so that whole "meeting new people" thing is shot.
I can't believe how big he's getting. Lynlee is only 5 1/2 weeks and she already changed so much!
ew. all i can say is ew.
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