This morning me and my pops went Cracker Barrel.
Jesus fucking Christ. Boomer hell doesn’t even describe it. They were extremely short-staffed but the place was packed like always. There was a long formed in front of the hostess’ station with boomers bitching that there was never a line before. When they get up to the hostess, I hear “you need to seat people faster, there was never a line here before.” The hostess replies very professionally, “I’m sorry about the wait ma’am, we are dealing with staffing issues right now and appreciate your patience.”
We were in line not even 5 minutes. Not even 5 goddamn minutes. They weren’t actually inconvenienced by the line. The just wanted to be seated immediately.
About 3 minutes into my 5 minute wait, the hostess is again explaining to yet another boomer why there is a line and guys, I shit you not, another one walks up, interrupts here and goes “CAN WE BE SEATED YET.” And she says sir it’s only been 9 minutes. We will seat you as soon as we can. And he goes “THERES ONLY 5 OF US. JUST GO AHEAD AND SEAT US.” He wasn’t yelling he was just obnoxiously loud and rude.
We get seated and I hear boomers all around me talking about how shitty the wait staff is. One lady whole ass said out loud “yeah we waited 13 minutes from when we ordered to when she brought out our food. Unbelievable! And it took about 10 minutes to get our coffee!”
The waitress that waited on us had six tables just around our table and some in the back. She was incredibly apologetic and very clearly worn out. It was 9:30 am. Can’t imagine what she feels like at the end of the day. We thanked her and she confided in us that we were her only table that was patient with her so far today. I was thinking about how her experience must be. Boomer table after boomer table being horribly obnoxious, treating her like shit, bitching about how slow she is, and not tipping her because they think it’s all her fault. Must be hell.