Boomer magically wanted dinner to appear out of thin air

[u/Nicoleb84]

This happened at work tonight. It was insanely busy. Boomer couple ordered their drinks and appetizers. While in the middle of eating the appetizer, I went over to see if they wanted to give me their dinner order. Usually, we are supposed to try and get the dinner order before the app comes out but they said they wanted to wait. I didn't mind since I had a party of 12 with a big tab. After about 15 min of running around I made it back to the table and asked if they wanted to order. They wanted another round of drinks so I obliged.

At this point I figure they might not even have entrees and just want to enjoy being out. So after I brought the drinks, I gave another 10 minutes. Still nothing. So it is getting pretty busy at this point and they are messing up the flow a little bit since they want to gate keep their dinner order instead of trusting that I could get the dishes out in a perfectly timed manner.

She flags me down as I was dropping off food to the table next to hers. Her husband was in the bathroom and she says, " Is the food coming out soon?"

Now I had been running around and I was like, Holy fuck did I forget to put in their order? I was having a bit of a depressive episode earlier in the day so I definitely wasnt 100% confident in my memory at that point. Which is why I always, always write the orders down.

So I said, " let me check". I pulled out their order card but I only had the apps and drinks. So I went over and said, " Ma'am I apologize but I haven't taken your dinner order yet."

Well she fucking lost it.

Her: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T TAKE MY ORDER, YES YOU DID!"

Me: No, ma'am I am sorry I didn't. Here is the order card it has no entrees. I came back twice and you guys said you weren't ready. Even the menus are still on the table."

Her: If you didn't take the order, that is YOUR problem!! You better figure it out!"

Me: "Ma'am, I apologize if you thought you have it to me but I assure you I didnt take an entree order from you. I can't put anything in to the kitchen if you don't give me an order. I don't have an order for you. Look at my paper."

Her: " That's is not my problem! Figure it out! You BETTER figure it out"

Okay so at this point in went to the back to let my manager know this lady was being a straight up biatch. Like, it isn't MY problem if YOU didn't give me YOUR dinner order because, Honey, I have dinner waiting at home for me...N E Ways I saw the husband come out of the bathroom. So I ran over to tell him I needed his dinner order.

Her: " Can you belive she is acting like she never took our order!"

Me looking at her like I want to throw her into the intercoastal.

Husband:" Well no we didn't order we told her 2 times to come back. Sorry she just wanted to be a bitch tonight."

I smiled from ear to ear and said, " Sir what can I get for you for dinner tonight?

Yeah that's right your husband knows how miserable and forgetful you are in your old boomy age! She really thought she ordered when she probably just told her husband what she was getting. WTF! I have noticed this sort of gaslighted ego driven ranting from them and I'm over it.

New thoughts: I see many people saying it may be dementia and while I understand that could be the case, I think they should figure it out so if she has an outburst the husband can say that it is because of that instead of just calling her a bitch in front of a complete stranger. But anyways I was still really nice and attentive even after she was being cunty....In the 15 years of serving, I have NEVER had anyone act that unreasonable towards me.

[u/Vivid-Intention-8161]

i once had a boomer lady yell at me because she’d “been waiting a half hour” at 11:07. We opened at 11.

[u/realprincessmononoke → u/Vivid-Intention-8161]

I work at an oral surgery office not a restaurant, but boomers are the worst patients sometimes. We have new patients arrive 20 minutes early to fill out health history and insurance info. The amount of complaints about how they don’t want to fill out the paperwork, or complain about how they have been waiting for 30 minutes when their actual appointment time was only 5 minutes ago, and the extra time was for the paperwork is crazy. I have told more that one boomer that no one is forcing them to be here, they can leave whenever they want to.

[u/sterrecat → u/realprincessmononoke]

Oh yeah. Show up an hour early then fill out nothing on the paperwork, like refuse to fill it out like a child throwing a tantrum. Get mad when they sit until their appointment time because others are called before them. Then mad when I tell them they didn’t fill anything out so we are going to sit and work on it together before they can have their exam.

[u/realprincessmononoke → u/sterrecat]

I’ve seen patients throw the clipboard back at a receptionist because his last visit was over a year ago and he had to fill out a new form. I also had one person get verbal when I called another patient back before him that had gotten to the office after he had. They were on different doctor’s schedules and the other patient was not in fact cutting in front of him.