Crazy Table

As you all know I work at Applebee's and after you serve 2 years worth of tables you're bound to get some weirdies in there.  So from time to time, when I have time, and when I deem it appropriate I shall share some of my experiences here, via blog.  No pictures this time, but the story should be able to hold ones attention.  Not to mention I didn't want to ask for a picture with them after what happened.

So I approach these two "asian" women at my table and get their drink order, they had a 1 year old baby girl with them. As I am leaving one of the ladies said "can we have 5 spoons"  I'm thinking... there are 2 of you and a baby...why would you ever need 5 spoons. So i give  a weird but playful friendly look and she says, the baby likes to play with them. I agree to get the 5 spoons.  I'm thinking a baby can play with one spoon... the baby's not gonna get all mad like, where are my other 4 spoons?  So i get the "5 spoons" for them.  I deliver the food and the lady wants a bunch of stuff (pretty standard)  and at the end of the list of things she needs she throws on, "and 5 more spoons" And I laughed out loud at her.  Then I asked "what did you do with the other 5?"  which may not have been the best move.  The lady now all offended and hurt, "she dropped them on the floor so she needs more" I gave an annoyed smile and walked away. I couldn't believe it.  I asked all the other servers if I was the crazy one or was it not weird that a lady wanted 5 spoons, twice.  So many things i wanted to say like, if the baby dropped all 5 spoons, then clearly she doesn't want to play with them.  Or, if I have provided 5 toys for your baby, can't you make sure all 5 don't hit the floor.  Like when she drops the first 4 make sure she holds on to the last one or she's out of luck. Also why 5 each time? Why not use the word "some".  Can i have some spoons or a few more spoons?  How about just one spoon? And how about even bringing a toy or a favorite spoon from home? I dropped off all the things she requested except the spoons and started to walk away and she said..."the spoons, now!" hahahahaha (i got them 5 more spoons) 

She ends up talking to the Manager and I am removed as their server.  As she's talking to the manager I see her waving 1 (not 5) spoons in the baby's face and the baby starts twisting her head away from the spoon with an annoyed look on her face.  She was trying to prove to the manager that her baby liked spoons, her baby didn't.  Not to mention the baby was quiet and well behaved the whole time.  I can understand if the baby was bawling and they wanted to try to appease her. However both before she had spoons, and after the spoons  were contaminated by the ground and thus taken away the baby couldn't have cared less.  

The manager told me that she said I was racist against asians. hahahaha that's the last thing I thought she would say.  No matter the "race" of the person asking for 5 spoons twice I would have reacted the same way. Not to mention I put "asian" in quotes earlier because I thought they were "white".  I guess a better server would have just gotten the 5 spoons, twice, or three times or however many multiples of 5 spoons the lady wanted, but I just couldn't do it. And yes, I know she probably thought i was accusing her of stealing when i asked what she did with the first 5 but I felt it was a reasonable question. (actually I didn't find all 10 spoons when I cleaned the table)