Is it ironic that in a post meant to point out Amber is overlooked that suddenly everyone's all "DOLLY!" Anyway, YES---Amber blew it up. She did an incredibly subtle job with it, with a lot of vocal control as well as flash, and it was easily the show's best moment in a long time. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
Go on, girl!
What a disgusting tool Romney is. It's not even a competition.
He needs to go.
Perhaps if we frame it as making war on stupidity, it'll get the attention it needs.
Eat/Pray/Trip Your Balls Off. Or, How I Met Your Mother When I Mistakenly Thought She Was An Amazonian Sex Goddess Due To Hallucinogens.
She needs a team, stat.
Is it time for "I'm Brian Williams, bitch!", as a tag?
Oh, that jury. It never comes in! Whenever the topic is cancer, or the environment, or birth defects, it is always out. Come in, Jury! Come in!
Holy crap, what a decline in tipster quality!
In which the GOP and Mitt Romney figure out the 1% makes for a small base.
The thing is, in New York (and other places) people like this often have a great deal riding on dinner. So, the whims of a spouse, they are often disregarded.
Also, I can't tell you how often servers end up as the place where conflict between partners is projected. What's also creepy, now that I think of it? The wife didn't intervene. She could have said, "What are you doing? I asked him to do it! Get me out of here!" But she didn't. Which means she's either afraid of this man or she enjoyed watching the drama play out.
That might actually be my favorite compliment ever. Thank you.
Wow. Yes. That is one seriously janky dining club...
As a former waiter in private dining rooms, which are run very much like private dining clubs, the check is not supposed to come to the table unless the host asks for it, but even then it is never supposed to be presented by the waiter--it is supposed to be presented by the captain or the maitre'd. The waiter should have informed the captain that the wife asked for it, and the captain should have then said "It's nice that she wants that." If she was not the organizer or the host, she has no authority in the situation, in other words, any more than any other guest at the table. And if said high-roller is really as profligate a member as that, the people waiting on him should have been briefed by the captain: "The wife will probably ask the check be brought to the table, she just wants to leave. Don't do it, come talk to me."
In the private dining room I worked at this was always very explicit. If the waiter didn't know this, he was badly trained by the club. Part of the reason for this is that the captain or maitre'd were also responsible to audit the check, which can run very high, and be sure it is correct. Given that the checks range from say 700.00-70,000.00 for a dinner depending on the number of guests, etc., this is really a different world---and as a mistake on the bill can offend a patron permanently, they are carefully managed. Also, the captain usually adds the tip, and receives a side tip from the host that they may or may not share with the waiters---another reason the waiter is not to present the check.
There's no mention of a captain in the item. This may be because the club has decided captains, who really are more expensive than waiters, as they organize the waiters, were too expensive and have let them go, resulting in dining room chaos. Or, the captain was not on the ball, in which case it is partly the captain's fault that this happened.
In any case, it is considered rude to bring the check to the table if it has not been requested by the host. It is however considered psychotic to break the waiter's finger as a result of your displeasure at this. So, the win on this one goes to the waiter. But it should be said, the wife should watch out, because the real finger he wanted to break was probably hers.
You want them to get text messages? How different is it from Revenge, where everyone is always getting email in the biggest, corniest way possible?
The Senate is a less democratic institution than the Presidency. The over-reach began when GOP senatorial minority filibustered all his appointments pro-forma.
Sadly, Busey made Haggard and his wife look like the open-minded people. Busey came off as ham-handed, judgemental and crazy, his wife a little less so---and also, Busey appeared unable to take care of a small child.
It's sad that this ends up being a victory. And yet it was.
