Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Breakfast-Nazi

To disprove my friends who say I like to write on serious stuff, here is an anecdote:
Me, Jaewon and Sylvana were having breakfast at very ecelectic place in San Francisco downtown....the reason I am saying ecelectic because place looked like American diner, chef was hispanic and my waitress was asian. So to start with we had this huge discussion on whether she is Malay, Korean, Chinese or Thai without any conclusion.

Following is a brief excerpt of conversation that ensued between story's hero (me, of course) and this angry-asian-waitress...

Me: I'd like to have 2 chicken strips, 2 scrembled eggs and 2 danish pastries.

Her: We don't have danish pastries.

Me: Ok, what other pastries do you have?

Her: I told you we don't have any danish pastries.

Me: Ok, but what OTHER (me stressing on word other) pastries do you have today.

Her (now exploding and giving me very condescending look): (You minion) I TOLD YOU WE DON'T HAVE ANY PASTRIES.

Me (at this point me getting offensive and trying to tease her): Ok, ok, not a problem, give me one minute to decide.

Her: Ok....

After a minute, she asks me again but to no avail as I was very much in mood of pulling her leg, said I was not ready. :-))

She comes back and all the while looking at me angrily from kitchen, asks for my order...
Me (worrying for breakfast, me backs down, getting defensive): I'll have 2 french toasts and 2 scrambled eggs and you can substitute another two eggs for chicken strips that I am not ordering.

Her: WE DON'T DO NO SUBSTITUITION HERE, that's your order.
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That reminded us of Seinfeld episode of "Soup Nazi." I am not sure why I always end up meeting such control freaks all over the place! Plus People need to calm down here in California. These bus drivers in SFO are like angry monkeys driving 3 ton bullet through the road. No wonder they elected Arnold Schwarzenegger as their Governer!