My husband go out to eat a lot. Probably more than we should, but that’s another topic for another day.<\/p>\n
Between the two of us we have quite a few bank accounts.\u00a0 Some of them are joint accounts and some are not (this is important).\u00a0 So, there are quite a few different options when it comes time to pay for our meal.\u00a0 Sometimes Pat pulls out a card to pay, but quite frequently I do.\u00a0 Yet almost EVERY time, when the waitstaff come back with the card, regardless of where on the table I laid my card, they lay the card and receipt down on his side of the table.\u00a0\u00a0This really pisses me off.<\/p>\n
One, it means they didn’t look at the card at all.\u00a0 I don’t expect an FBI level investigation into make sure the card wasn’t stolen or anything, but even a quick glance at the card and you’d see it says Rebecca, which is universally used as a woman’s name only.\u00a0 I don’t have a name like Robin or Dakota or Bailey that is gender neutral and could potentially confuse someone in a hurry.<\/p>\n
Two, it’s 2023.\u00a0 Why are we still assuming the man is always paying?\u00a0 30% of married women make more than their husbands.\u00a0 About that same ratio likely applies to dating couples too, in case the waitstaff hasn’t noticed my husband and I are both wearing wedding rings.\u00a0 I make my own money thank you very much and sometimes yeah, I pay for dinner.\u00a0 OR, I’m using one of our joint accounts to pay.\u00a0 But it doesn’t matter why –\u00a0 I am paying for dinner.\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n
I know being a server is a shitty job.\u00a0 I did it for 6 long and miserable months many years ago.\u00a0 I do understand food coming out slow is not the waitstaffs’ fault.\u00a0 I know that at least half the time getting the wrong food isn’t the server’s fault.\u00a0 I understand that servers have no control over the restaurant running out of my favorite food.\u00a0 I know the waitstaff cannot do anything about the obnoxious children at the next table.<\/p>\n
BUT.<\/p>\n
It takes half a second to read the name on a credit card.\u00a0 There isn’t any reason why you can’t do that.\u00a0 I chose to eat at your workplace.\u00a0 The very least you can do is figure out who to thank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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