Only made $28 tonight. Pitiful. And I only had 2 tables the whole of bar rush because they were they kind of people to stay sitting around forever after they're done.

Not only that but I had a runner.

I plan to make a customers_suck post about it in just a bit.

Basically, it went like this:

Some dude ordered a 2x2x2. 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, 2 meats. Well, dude wanted turkey sausage but I figured we might not have any so I asked him what he would like to have instead. He said more eggs. Of course, this adds more to the bill. On top of THAT, he wanted strawberries for his pancakes. So that got an additional charge on the bill, too.

So I figured that he would comment about it when it was time for them to pay.

Surprisingly he quickly paid.

I, of course, was suspicious and marched over, picked up the booklet and found ONE SINGLE DOLLAR BILL.

... immediately, I cried out, "[MANAGER]! WE HAVE A RUNNER!"

My manager rushed over to me, I quickly explained and showed him the booklet, he looked around the restaurant and then asked me where he was. I pointed outside in the parking lot where the guy was trying to make his get away, "The one in the red shirt!"

Manager took the booklet and SPED toward the doors, only to run into the 4 cops who were working on clearing out the parking lots as quickly as possible when bar rush (which was winding down) was over. They were coming inside because one of them, a night cop who always comes on the weekends, was told by my other manager that some people at Table 6 were giving me a hard time because they'd eaten, went outside, and then came back and SAT THEMSELVES, expecting to be served again and complaining about how messy the table was. (Gee, I wonder.)

So our wonderful night cop basically went, "You three guys help that manager dude while I clear out the Table 6 peeps." And... yeah.

They managed to catch the red-shirt runaway before he could get out of our parking lot and I, thankfully, didn't have to pay for the $14-ish ticket that he was trying to walk out on.

... in other words, weekends continue to be hell on earth for me and my nerves but I thankfully got to leave an hour earlier and stopped by the donut shop near the IHOP. ... during which time, it POURED rain, so I was stuck for a bit and chattered with some of the regulars and the lady behind the counter. Also, I discovered that in my change I have 13 State quarters already. ... maybe I should start collecting XD

But yeah, woman behind the counter was win and lurve and she found me like... the last raspberry lemonade there was and also gave me extra cream cheese filling in that donut thing. Mmmm... Not only that, but she heard I was walking and the weather was so bad that she lent me her small blue umbrella. Will be giving it back to her tomorrow morning, for sure.

And of course, I put somewhere around $3 in her tip jar because that little shop is just awsum and win and so are the people there. So nice~

So bunch of hoo hah, but things are pretty good! Well, they were bad but I got the pick-me-ups at the times I needed them. Like after the running incident, I kept thanking my manager and the cop dude (telling him to thank the others for me) and my manager went, "I'm thankful you caught on before it was too late."

Ahahahaha... me too, man. Me too.

Long night is long but at least it makes for interesting stories like these, ne?
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