I had breakfast in Cracker Barrel this morning, a fine establishment off the PA Turnpike in New Stanton. These places like Denny's, Eat & Park, Bob Evans, etc. all have one thing in common: the waitresses are absolute fanatics about keeping your coffee cup filled to the brim. Now I vociferously object to this practice for 2 reasons. First, I just like one cup of coffee and that's all. If I drink any more, my aging bladder will retaliate by making me spend the rest of the day in the men's room. The other problem is that I am very particular about the ratio of coffee to cream to artificial sweetener. Once I get that perfect ratio and take a few sips, if the waitress fills up the cup again with fresh coffee, I'm back to square one in terms of my ingredient ratio.
So predictably, the waitress at Cracker Barrel hones in on me like a Cruise missile with her pot of coffee literally milliseconds after my first sip of coffee. I politely declined, thinking that she would get the message that I was just fine with my initial quantity. I then proceeded to open up a newspaper so as to completely cover my coffee cup in the hopes of precluding further assaults on my mug. Then a few minutes later she returns and actually tries to burrow under the newspaper with the coffee pot like she was some kind of ground hog in this intense effort to fill up my cup. I then kind of lost it and wailed, "I don't want any more coffee" and I think I hurt her feelings, because she slunk away with her shoulders stooped like I had crushed her spirit and eliminated her whole reason for being.
Simple solution to this earth-shattering problem: give out stickers to put on the coffee cups that say "fill" or "no-fill". Wow, that idea could get me a Nobel Peace Prize!
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As an aside...the ratio of sweetener to milk is essential, and gets all thrown off when one is denied artificial sweetener and must use regular sugar!
Lol. Should you also be able to put stickers on hotel room beds labeled "tuck" or "no tuck" for when the maids change the sheets?
As for me, since I drink my hot coffee black I do not mind the refills but that is stupid that she is refilling the coffee mug like a water glass. I don't even like it when waiters refill my water glass midway because I like to keep track of how much water I drink...OK, so maybe that's a little weird...
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