The younger generation is the rude one

We are always taught to use our manners as a child, or at least we should be. It drives me crazy when people don’t know better or their kids know more than them. Please, thank you, excuse me, maybe even being nice and cleaning up a ridiculous mess you made at a restaurant, at least most kids have a conscience to do so. Working at a restaurant you see a lot of things that you just say why, why. I have seen parents, in their 40s, walk BEHIND the counter, behind the counter, without asking. Who does that? They apparently don’t realize that only employees are allowed behind the counter. I have seen a man try to go into the employee bathroom that is behind the counter. ?? Why. What makes a person think that that is where you are supposed to go. I do not understand sometimes when these things happen I really don’t.

Another thing that I don’t understand is when parents are feeding their kids like crackers or something and they just leave them all on the table, all over the floor. Why can’t you pick them up? Perhaps at least just pick them up off the floor because when they are on the floor, people can step on them. Crush them. Make a waitresses job a whole lot harder because well, we have to clean, everything, no matter what it is. It’s also just incredibly annoying because we have to stop whatever we are doing to make sure that the dining room looks at least somewhat nice and not super dirty or anything. Why don’t adults understand that just because it is our job to clean, it doesn’t mean that you can make everything dirtier.

Along with the dirty thing about restaurants, why don’t you let waitresses take care of you? I am pretty sure that every restaurant I have ever been to, the waiters take your dishes away, pretty much always. So, if there isn’t a spot to return your dishes, why would you think you should take them all up and set them on the clean counter? I understand made you need them out of the way right away but if you see someone walking by you should try and get their attention and ask if they can take all of the dishes away. It is such a simple concept I just don’t get why people don’t understand it. If we don’t notice the dirty dishes on the counter then it makes the whole counter look bad and it is just ridiculous.

I feel as though sometimes, the kids just are getting told to do so much and be so much kinder and more helpful than what their parents actually do, its kind of ridiculous. Maybe someday the “kids are the most rude and impolite” thing will go away because honestly its not true. Just the other day I was taking some dishes to the back and I dropped a napkin and when I came back a little girl handed it to me and just said “I thought you might need this it fell”. What adult would do that? Most would give me a dirty look as if I don’t know how to do my job, when really its just the fact that they are making it a lot harder.