Current mood:

irritated

My God, People Are Rude
So, since both of our husbands had to work last night, Mary and I decided to go to dinner as our own little mini Valentine's Day celebration.  We thought about all the restaurants around and tried to think of one that WOULDN'T be packed for Valentines Day and came up with...The Village Inn.  

Mary and I headed into the Village Inn and discover that they are a little busy and a little understaffed. There were about 4 or 5 groups of people waiting for a table, and they said the wait would be a whopping 10 minutes.  Considering what the wait would be at other restuarants on Valentine's Day, Mary and I considered ourselves fairly lucky.  

However, one group did not feel the same way. This group was two couples who appeared to be in their mid-40s, and from the moment they walked in the door, they were complaining...LOUDLY. They were shocked that there were people there waiting and they complained very loudly about having to wait a whole 10 minutes to be seated. They kept making snide remarks about how the restaurant had no idea how to run a business and how the Village Inn was understaffed because all the waiters had the gall to take off on Valentine's Day.  They were extremely loud and obnoxious.  I turned to Mary and said, fairly loudly myself, "You know, considering the fact that if I went next door to Outback Steakhouse, I would be waiting 3 hours for a meal, I think 10 minutes is nothing to complain about."

To top it all off, when they called our name and "Party of Two", one of the guys made a snide remark about me as we passed by, saying 'More like party of two and a half."  Mary looked directly at him and said, "I guess these days its ok to be rude when you get old."

People can be such jerks.