[Lapin]

I'm still so pissed off, even though this happened on Saturday. I have not been this aggravated in weeks, and really, it was doing my blood pressure good.

Okay, a little back story; It has been a tradition for years for my theatre group to go to Friendly's after every show. I mean, over a decade, they've been doing this. I don't even like Friendly's. But I go, order an appetizer, talk to the cast and crew, and we celebrate our success.

For over a decade.

This year, they apparantly decided they were through with us. Now, I'll admit, our group is large and rather unusual looking. But we get there at 9:30, when the place is mostly empty even though they close at midnight, and we leave good tips. This year though, they refused to even seat us at first, and then after we were seated, we got bad service: dishes arriving late, dishes confused, mistakes with the bill, etc. (Do they think we don't read over the receipts?)

This treatment alone was more than enough to piss us all off, but we mostly held our tempers. Now unfortunately, the twit who was waitressing us passed us by holding our drinks (four Shirley Temples) and went to every table but the one I was sitting at with four others asking if it was their's. Angry, irritated, and sick of her ignoring me and my blue-haired friend, plus our ****** Goth, I clapped my hands to get her attention, saying "Hey, over here". I do this on stage often, and honestly didn't think about it again because she gave us our drinks.

15 minutes later, another waitress comes over, up in arms, claiming that I called the first one a 'whore'. Let me make myself clear; I did not call her a whore, nor would I ever be so rude. She tried to get our entire group of 25+ thrown out, even after I said that I did not, that she must have misheard me. Throughly angry already, the waitress then insinuated that I must have, indicating that because of my style choices, I must be a rude little mongrel. I was already pushed to the breaking point when an older man sitting near us, apparantly having listened in, stood up and said that the waitress _had_ misheard me, that I had indeed not called her any such names.

The other waitress was forced to back down and we were left alone, but my Goddess, I have not been so mistreated in years. How dare she stereotype my like that? How dare she think that I would ever be so rude? (growls) And the worst part is that some (bad word) in my own theatre group backed the waitress up, saying that I could be kind of "mean" and that "she might have", even saying I should apologize! This girl has been pushing my buttons from Day 1! How dare she side against me when she had no idea about anything? She'd already tried to undermine me with my crew twice that night as well! (Although, thankfully, my crew still listened to me and me alone, not her silly self)

We have decided as a group that Friendly's will not be our meeting place any longer. We are now going to Dragon Inn, the Chinese place across the street.

But still, how dare they? Especially the girl from my theatre group. If she stays true to her word and decides to leave the group, I will not contribute money to her flowers. And I'll let them tell her why my name is not on the card. Undermining me, really, when she has no clue how to run my crew. (screams in frustration) I've been running it for over a year! I know what I'm doing damn it!