Me and the soon to be former Mrs Official
used to go to a splendid Thai restaurant in the West Yorkshire village of Silsden. We had been several times and it was always great; lovely staff, great food and at a decent price. One Saturday I booked a table for two for 8PM and we arrived perhaps five minutes early to tell the nice chap that greeted us that we had booked for 8, he recognised me and showed us to seats in the bar area and asked for our drinks orders. That was as good as it got. It took 30 minutes of badgering to get our drinks, it was 9PM before we got shown to our table, it was 9:30 before they took out order and at 10PM our starters arrived a mere 2 hours after we were booked in. Having ordered a seafood special type dish for my main course I was rather surprised when, at 1025PM, half a duck was presented to me. Now, I'm sure it was lovely, but by now I had had more than enough. I'm not normally the complaining type, I know how hard it is working in restaurants/pubs having done it myself for many years, but it wasn't even that busy and the duck thing was taking the piss. I explained to the waitress that this was more than enough and that we were leaving, which was a shame seeing as we had been there many times before and it was lovely normally. She smiled and said sorry and even held the door open for us. We got away without paying for the drinks and starters which I reckon were worth £20, and then went to the chippy on the way home. Still haven't been back. Pity
(bogus official shove it up your cunt, Thu 27 Apr 2006, 16:02, Reply)