Accusation: Good Customer!
By Mitch Berg
Waitstaff can have just about the crappiest job there is. I’ve never been a waiter (or, for that matter, a cook; I guess that means local leftybloggers will start calling me a “chickenfoodserviceworker”), but I’ve worked with ’em in a slew of jobs – and the notion that part of one’s income is dependant on the social skills, much less the felicitude, of one’s fellow restaurant or bar patron would scare the bejeebers out of me.
Suffice to say that in the 23 years since I worked as a bellhop at a Holiday Inn (partly for tips, and interacting constantly with the waitresses at our hotel’s wan little restaurant), I’ve never stiffed anyone on a tip.
So, if the NYPost is any indication, the next big beef (as it were) against Limbaugh is that he’s a good customer?
Rush Limbaugh is far from conservative when it comes to his big appetite. The Post’s Braden Keil reports that Limbaugh and a female companion lived large at Kobe Club last Thursday night, devouring bacon with truffles, Japanese strip steak, Kobe beef cheek ravioli, a large seafood platter, a combo of American, Australian and Japanese wagyu steaks and several “side” dishes.
After finishing their $700 feast, Limbaugh left the server a $1,000 tip.
Wow. He takes care of the working class.
Wonder how Al Franken, Mike Hatch, Judi Dutcher or Chris Coleman tips. Any Oceanaire staff reading here today?
(Via Maloney)
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:37 am
Angryclown pictures a scene from Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
Rush is probably back on the drugs. And if he was with a lady, Angryclown knows *she* was high.
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:46 am
Mitch said,
I guess that means local leftybloggers will start calling me a “chickenfoodserviceworker”
Only if you start blathering on about how you support food service workers and would do food service work if not for your bad knees and kids to raise.
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:18 am
*rolls his eyes*
Doug…
*shakes his head*
…is that really what you think inspires some folks to call other folks “chickenhawk” or “chickenfoodserviceworker” or “chicken(whatever)”? Drink some coffee and think before answering. Please.
*gives Doug a disapproving look*
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 am
Clown, I thought you promised not to grace us with your presence this week.
May 2nd, 2007 at 8:45 am
Troy,
Don’t mind Doug. He’s sputtering again.
Jeff,
Angryclown lied. Nobody died.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
the clown lied? incroyable!
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:51 am
Troy,
You may want to look into those involuntary ticks. It may be a sign of early onset Parkinson’s or possible tourette’s.
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:52 am
uh oh… Looks like someone left their tags open…
May 2nd, 2007 at 9:59 am
So do Oxycontin or Viagra give you the munchies?
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 am
AngryClowns probation officer said the ankle bracklet revealed his location.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 am
involuntary ticks
As opposed to the ticks one voluntarily hosts, just to give one’s dog a break.
Utterly unrelated to involuntary tics, natch.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 am
Tics, Ticks. Same difference
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:02 am
Fabulous!
Now I’m sure I can expect some trouble from “Insect Rights” crazies for imprisoning ticks against their will.
*shakes his finger at Doug*
May 2nd, 2007 at 11:51 am
Isn’t that just Super!
*shakes a Graham Chapmanesque limp wrist at Troy for using the word “fabulous”*
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
opps!
May 2nd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
15, now 16 comments about Doogie’s ticks and not a single one to the matter of the post. Do I sense a hijack of the thread to avoid the embarassment? Well? How much do libs tip vs neo-cons?
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:45 pm
silly comment, justplainangry.
Everyone knows that conservatives pay for performance and tip from their own pocket and reward good service. The better the waiter, the better the tip.
Liberals will also “tip” well, they just take the money from you so as to tip the less capable waiter with “earned income credits” or have the fed gov force the employer to pay his weaker employees more with a higher minimum wage.
Clearly the difference is the liberal cares more.
Off topic, I see Edwards is going to end poverty. I remember when LBJ started the war on poverty. We won of course. All was ponies and daisies until that mean Ronald Reagan took over.
May 7th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
This post may prove only one thing – hard to find much good to say about Limbauagh. But it does pay homage to him as it follows his radio show – no real point to make so use it to attack what the lefties ARE PROBABLY THINKING!