I have never been so lonely that I would choose to sit near the restrooms just so I could see an attractive woman.

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Brian and Chris,
A delight to read your kind words. Thank you both.

What I forgot to tell was,the problem with the place of seating was that every time the kitchen door opened it early hit him on the back of the chair. While he could not actually look into the kitchen.

In the restaurant you walk through an "alleyway" (is the best description) then the restaurant "opens up". He was just sitting in the "alleyway" with is back towards the bar area. Irritating as staff and customers walk past you towards the actual seating area and suddenly apear next to you.


This table is the furthest away from the toilet. Actually we hardly use the table anyway, so why Mr Tom was seated there remains a mystery to me. Maybe I will ask Ray. But I find it hard to translate into words wich do not seem accusatory.

Reinhardt

Usually when i ask the boss a question that brings his authority or competence into question i try to phrase it in such a way that it doesn't sound like i am questioning his sanity. First thing, if you say anything wait till you have a chance to cool off, and i do not mean that in any negative way on your part. I don't want you get fired. In your line of work you might try asking your boss how he decides who gets the prime real estate out in front and who would wind up with the table in the alley. If you need to explain it further i would not mention any names, just say that two long time customers came in a few nights ago and one was seated in the alley and the other wound up out in front. Just wait a while till you can ask the question and keep a calm mind. From your description so far, Mr. Tom was a single on a busy night and your boss decided to put just one patron at the table in the back instead of several.

BTW, Pete the rest of us are not pretty and Italian like you.

RayW:

That's handsome!, not pretty as I don't swing that way. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I still have an unbelievably hard time convincing woman what a prize I could be even though they are looking at me; now that I think about it, it is even harder when they are looking at me. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Bountyhunter <img src="/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

If he was a commando in WW[color:"red"]III[/color] , I do not think that I could stop myself from asking all kinds of questions <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I agree with your points on no unnaturally special treatment. While also agreeing entirely with Reinhardt about "every Sincere Respect / Regard", -and even a certain amount of *Proper* "Special Treatment", -as he and others describe. He should not be propped up onto a puffy throne, -but he should Not receive the "Doghouse Seat" either.

I understand that there are times, in the Restaurant World, when circumstances are that a lesser seat can't be avoided. But I also understand from what Rerinhardt has said, -that this Fine Person and Veteran *Routinely* receives such Doghouse Seat! Come On!, -"Unfortunate Lightning", -while perhaps occurring twice, -certainly does Not occur every situation or day!

And Judgeing by this Patron's Response to Reinhardt, -I think the Far Greateer Likleihood lies *with* this Patron / Veteran's *Appreciation* of Reihardt's Tribute, -rather than Other or Opposite.

How would ones of Us Feel, -if we recently had to fight in Fallujah, -in the Fine and Perilous way that our Marines, Army, and Airmen recently did, -only to find Sham Treatment awaiting us for it, -decades down the road! And as with he, -from our Fellow American Countrymen! (( His are South African, our's are (North) American.))

Reminds me of what a Famous Roman said, -about Dying in the Saharan Sands, -for the type of "Awareness" and "Appreciation", -as he and his Comrades routinely got from his Fellow Romans back Home!

Of course as the Roman Empire neared it's End, -who did the average Roman look to!?, -when it came to Defending their very villas from such Barbarian's at the Gate!? Yet many a Fine Roman Horatio, -Still Answered such Call! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]Polak187[/email]