Most Embarrassing Thing Someone in Your Family Does? (2 Viewers)

[Terminalxylem]

I haven't read through this topic, but the opening post made me think of someone I know, and their ordering habits when eating out. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE for them to order anything without somehow altering the menu item. And, usually, the item is altered in no less than 4-5 ways. Example....

"I'd like the Asian Chicken Salad. No onions, please. And, could I get the mandarin oranges on the side? Is there any way I could get extra mandarin oranges? Also, instead of the regular Asian dressing, could I get ranch? Oh, and make that extra ranch. On the side, please. Just water to drink. With extra lemon wedges, please. Oh, and could we get more bread? But just the white rolls, not the other ones."

Then, the food comes out, at which point they would ask "Is there cilantro in the salad?" (Waiter nods his head yes). "Oh, OK. Yeah, I can't have any cilantro. I'll break out all over." (Waiter takes the salad back to the kitchen). "I'm pretty sure I told him no cilantro."

Meanwhile, I'm thinking "No you didn't. In the midst of your seven other special requests, you forgot that part."

Secondly, drivers who follow too closely and cause everyone behind them to brake every 5 seconds.

Try dining with a vegan. Talk about 10,000 questions.

I have a vegan friend with food allergies, including soy. And another who’s convinced he has gout because of nightshades. Both are pretty self aware though, such that they don’t ask many questions. They tend not to eat much.

But like many others here, I have another friend, an omnivore, who cannot order without modifying the food/preparation six different ways.

And my father-in-law needs to douse everything in balsamic vinegar - fish, pizza, soup, you name it. Plus he’s impatient, and mildly demented. So every restaurant meal entails hailing a server multiple times, to double/triple/quadruple check when the vinegar is coming.

 

[GroveDiesel]

A bad habit of mine that I have to be conscious of, that pisses my wife off, is not to walk in front of her when leaving a restaurant. Not sure why I do that and I’m trying not to do it. I try to walk next to her or behind her. That is good manners.

Funnily enough, my wife drives me nuts because she refuses to walk in front of me ever. Granted, she’s terrible with directions and concerned she’ll lead us somewhere wrong, but she almost always walks behind me making me look like some crazy misogynist forcing his wife to walk behind me.

 

[Max Power]

My wife orders her steak "well WELL" done.. as if one "well" isn't enough.

SIL teams them to burn it. When we went to a high end steakhouse the waiter told her they won’t burn her steak.

Totally unrelated but similar:

Took a date to a high end steakhouse in Kansas City. She ordered her steak fine - medium. But then asked for steak sauce.

The old german waitress looked at her and in a thick accent said:

“This is one of the finest steaks in the world. I bring no steak sauce.”


I smiled inside.

I trust that was a last and final date. She revealed who she was.

Well, after the sex of course.

With the German waitress?

She was happy with my weinerschnitzel

She probably thought you were a brat.

That's the wurst.

Hanging out on a website that loves bad puns

 

[Bossman]

Wednesday night I went out, with the wifes cousins from Ireland, ...to dinner and then drinks at 3 different bars
7 of us. I paid for dinner and they bought our drinks the rest of the night.
At the last bar, I went up to get a Red Bull and the bar maid let me know that the Irish gent I was with that bought the first round did not leave a tip. I took care of her.
Turns out that tipping is not a thing in Ireland. Thankfully I paid for dinner and tipped accordingly ... but it would seem the two places we stopped for drinks previously may have got nothing. Whoops.

 

[Beef Ravioli Part 2]

Wednesday night I went out, with the wifes cousins from Ireland, ...to dinner and then drinks at 3 different bars
7 of us. I paid for dinner and they bought our drinks the rest of the night.
At the last bar, I went up to get a Red Bull and the bar maid let me know that the Irish gent I was with that bought the first round did not leave a tip. I took care of her.
Turns out that tipping is not a thing in Ireland. Thankfully I paid for dinner and tipped accordingly ... but it would seem the two places we stopped for drinks previously may have got nothing. Whoops.

I learned that two years ago when visiting Ireland. First restaurant we went to over there, the waitress got a nice tip and then I learned that you don’t do that there.

Did you know the waitress? Surprised she let you know.

 

[Joe Schmo]

A bad habit of mine that I have to be conscious of, that pisses my wife off, is not to walk in front of her when leaving a restaurant. Not sure why I do that and I’m trying not to do it. I try to walk next to her or behind her. That is good manners.

Funnily enough, my wife drives me nuts because she refuses to walk in front of me ever. Granted, she’s terrible with directions and concerned she’ll lead us somewhere wrong, but she almost always walks behind me making me look like some crazy misogynist forcing his wife to walk behind me.

My lady friend is maddening. She uses me as a magnet and will find her way to nearly make me fall or trip was walk somewhere. If I walk on her right she leans that way. When I try to smoothly slide to the other side she leans That way. When I walk slightly in front she nearly clips my heels, if I let her go first she gets pissy cuz it means I'm not listening to her. So I basically power walk and get in front by 10 or more paces, like god intended, and then I can't hear her cussing me for being ignorant.

 

[JohnnyU]

Wednesday night I went out, with the wifes cousins from Ireland, ...to dinner and then drinks at 3 different bars
7 of us. I paid for dinner and they bought our drinks the rest of the night.
At the last bar, I went up to get a Red Bull and the bar maid let me know that the Irish gent I was with that bought the first round did not leave a tip. I took care of her.
Turns out that tipping is not a thing in Ireland. Thankfully I paid for dinner and tipped accordingly ... but it would seem the two places we stopped for drinks previously may have got nothing. Whoops.

I learned that two years ago when visiting Ireland. First restaurant we went to over there, the waitress got a nice tip and then I learned that you don’t do that there.

Did you know the waitress? Surprised she let you know.

I had to adjust to minimal tipping in Italy.