would this bother you too? Dirty rag visible at restaurant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, OP. You went to a diner at the beach and are surprised it’s a diner at the beach.

Someone gets seated at the bussing station table. If you didn’t want to be seated there, say so.

Why didn’t you switch seats with your DH?

It wasn't a diner at the beach. It was nowhere near a beach and it was not a diner.

Why didn’t you switch seats with DH instead of making him do all your work?

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t have bothered me. I expect OP doesn’t have a lot of real world experience if it bothers her so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, OP. You went to a diner at the beach and are surprised it’s a diner at the beach.

Someone gets seated at the bussing station table. If you didn’t want to be seated there, say so.

Why didn’t you switch seats with your DH?

It wasn't a diner at the beach. It was nowhere near a beach and it was not a diner.

Why didn’t you switch seats with DH instead of making him do all your work?

Several reasons but most importantly:
His seat also had a direct and clear view of the rag. This was a very small space.
and also my husband does not like to sit on the inside of a booth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t have bothered me. I expect OP doesn’t have a lot of real world experience if it bothers her so much.

What kind of "real world experience" involves staring at filthy rags while you eat? I've worked in food service for years and have used cleaning rags myself on the job.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gasp. A RAG!!?!? No!! How horrific of a thing to see when you are eating; or all things. How absolutely vomitous.

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

If you pulled this when I was eating with you, I would never NEVER want to hang out with you again. I can't stand precious people who think the world should fold to their sensitive needs.

If you think a dirty rag 3 feet from your face while you're eating is acceptable, I'm sure there are many other reasons why we wouldn't be friends.

This is accurate. We definitely will never be friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t have bothered me. I expect OP doesn’t have a lot of real world experience if it bothers her so much.

What kind of "real world experience" involves staring at filthy rags while you eat? I've worked in food service for years and have used cleaning rags myself on the job.

+1
Op, it would have bothered me. I would have asked to be seated elsewhere. I am pretty vocal like that.

[Anonymous]

I would not have been bothered. I don’t know how you have survived in food service if you are still ruminating on this days later.

You should have asked to be moved or refused the table in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Between the initial OP and her responses I conclude she is nuts. You let a dirty rag (not on your table) ruin your meal out with you family. That is sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not have been bothered. I don’t know how you have survived in food service if you are still ruminating on this days later.

You should have asked to be moved or refused the table in the first place.

Yes, in hindsight we should have. I was trying to not be difficult right off the bat. The rag wasn't there when we were first seated. A server put it there after our salad and right before we got our entrees.

[Anonymous]

Our rags sit in heavy chemical between cleaning, but they do change because we clean up coffee spills. Does not mean it's dirty.
The busser has a smaller one in his apron and uses it after spraying alcohol on the table.
Can you imagine having to put the rag into chemical pot in between? He never gets the job done and his apron would be soaked.
Op, this is not the only thing that bothers you in life. I'd like to see a whole list of other things.
Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Once I had a job answering the phones at a pizza place and my genius colleagues accidentally baked a cleaning rag into a deep dish pizza. The guy called, and I didn't believe him at all, so he brought in the offending pizza. So, that's my bar for disgusting. Is the rag IN my food? No? Carry on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once I had a job answering the phones at a pizza place and my genius colleagues accidentally baked a cleaning rag into a deep dish pizza. The guy called, and I didn't believe him at all, so he brought in the offending pizza. So, that's my bar for disgusting. Is the rag IN my food? No? Carry on.

Now that’s a pizza with a lot of fiber!

[Anonymous]

My husband would have told me not to look at it.

Do you have OCD by chance?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband would have told me not to look at it.

Do you have OCD by chance?

OP here
I have no OCD diagnosis. It's hard not to look at something that is directly in my natural line of sight, just 3 feet away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband would have told me not to look at it.

Do you have OCD by chance?

OP here
I have no OCD diagnosis. It's hard not to look at something that is directly in my natural line of sight, just 3 feet away.

But anyone who's not a real-life Adrian Monk would either move the rag or ignore it.