My wife started school recently and I have the girls (2, 5, 8) saturday mornings. I had drank myself silly on friday night, so I barely managed to drag my ass out of bed Saturday morning to see her off and make sure the two year old didn't go running out in the street to chase her down.
Not being physically capable of engineering breakfast, I decided to treat us all to pancakes, which met with overwhelming approval, as you can imagine.
Seated immediately we order; 2 eggs sunny side up with an english muffin and hash browns for me, silver dollar pancake plates for the girls and French toast sticks for the baby. The servings are huge which is exciting to the older girls. The baby had already down about 6 ounces of milk when we got our drinks, and the first thing she does when I turn my head, is grab the syrup tourine and chug it.
It couldn't have been more than 4 ounces of syrup, but apparently syrup and milk don't mix, beacuse it came back up in about ten seconds.... all of it. For reference 10 ounces of liquid is 1.25 cups, which is a significant amount of fluid to spew across a restaurant booth at high velocity.
OK, clean it up, the waiter is the nicest guy in the world I think he's from some South American country, and he tells me about how his daughter completely destroyed their white carpet with red koolaid in a similar circumstance. He gets me a towel and we're good to go, d3spite the fact that the 5 year old is mortified.
In the following half hour of desperately trying to finish our food and get the crap out of there, the two year old up-ends her milk cup, spills my coffee over the table, and the five year old turns over her chocolate milk...
It was pure insanity. The waiter came to our table with napkins about fifteen times, and didn't bat an eye over the whole experience, he even took off the puke soaked French toast sticks that nobody had a chance to eat. Really great guy.
Needless to say 35% tip and several very sincerely meant apologies.
In fact when the puke incident occured he gave me a bleach towel, and with that and huge quantities of paper towels I left the table very clean. I have bussed tables before, and I'm not an a$$hole.
Cliffs:
Take three young kids out for pancakes
Baby chugs syrup and pukes everywhere
Waiter nicest guy in the world, doesn't make a big deal out of it
35% tip and my sincere, profuse apologies, and I cleaned my mess up.
Not being physically capable of engineering breakfast, I decided to treat us all to pancakes, which met with overwhelming approval, as you can imagine.
Seated immediately we order; 2 eggs sunny side up with an english muffin and hash browns for me, silver dollar pancake plates for the girls and French toast sticks for the baby. The servings are huge which is exciting to the older girls. The baby had already down about 6 ounces of milk when we got our drinks, and the first thing she does when I turn my head, is grab the syrup tourine and chug it.
It couldn't have been more than 4 ounces of syrup, but apparently syrup and milk don't mix, beacuse it came back up in about ten seconds.... all of it. For reference 10 ounces of liquid is 1.25 cups, which is a significant amount of fluid to spew across a restaurant booth at high velocity.
OK, clean it up, the waiter is the nicest guy in the world I think he's from some South American country, and he tells me about how his daughter completely destroyed their white carpet with red koolaid in a similar circumstance. He gets me a towel and we're good to go, d3spite the fact that the 5 year old is mortified.
In the following half hour of desperately trying to finish our food and get the crap out of there, the two year old up-ends her milk cup, spills my coffee over the table, and the five year old turns over her chocolate milk...
It was pure insanity. The waiter came to our table with napkins about fifteen times, and didn't bat an eye over the whole experience, he even took off the puke soaked French toast sticks that nobody had a chance to eat. Really great guy.
Needless to say 35% tip and several very sincerely meant apologies.
In fact when the puke incident occured he gave me a bleach towel, and with that and huge quantities of paper towels I left the table very clean. I have bussed tables before, and I'm not an a$$hole.
Cliffs:
Take three young kids out for pancakes
Baby chugs syrup and pukes everywhere
Waiter nicest guy in the world, doesn't make a big deal out of it
35% tip and my sincere, profuse apologies, and I cleaned my mess up.
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