She Ditched Her Friend At A Mexican Restaurant After She Made A Big Scene Over Finding A Bay Leaf In Their Nachos
Have you ever been embarrassed by someone who made a scene in a restaurant? For instance, have you ever witnessed a friend or family member overreact to something while sitting down at a restaurant and had to painfully watch them scold a staff member?
This recently happened to one woman who had to ditch her friend after she made a big fuss over finding a bay leaf in her food at a Mexican restaurant.
She’s 24-years-old and has a coworker of the same age. Over the years, they’ve become good friends, and she likes to grab lunch with her every day.
She’s never had any issues with her coworker until recently.
The other day, they decided to try getting lunch from a new restaurant. After a quick search online, they came across a local Mexican restaurant and decided to go on their lunch break.
After getting seated, they ordered something quickly since they had limited time. They chose to share a plate of nachos and got right to eating.
When they were about halfway through eating the nachos, her coworker pulled out her phone and took a picture of the plate. She noticed her coworker looked disgusted as she pointed to something on the plate.
Then, she saw her coworker pointing at a bay leaf that had ended up in their pile of nachos. Her coworker did not clearly understand the use of bay leaves in cooking and thought it was a random leaf from outside that had carelessly ended up in their food.
“I almost wanted to laugh, but I didn’t because, in all honesty, I had no idea what a bay leaf was or what it was used for in cooking until about a year or so prior,” she explained.
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“But before I could even try to explain, [she] was calling over our server.”
She figured that once the server explained to her coworker what a bay leaf was, the entire situation would be settled, but that wasn’t the case.
Her coworker insisted that the bay leaf was a random leaf from outside and demanded that their food be comped.
She was mortified as she watched her coworker go back and forth with the server until the server had to go and get the restaurant manager.
While the server was gone, she told her coworker again that she was wrong, and they even began arguing.
“She only realized she had made a mistake when I literally pulled my phone out and googled ‘bay leaf’ to show her,” she recalled.
“She seemed to be genuinely embarrassed and apologetic to me, at least. Knowing her mistake, I assumed she would apologize to our server as well and tell them we would be happily paying for our bill, but I was shocked when the manager came over to rectify the situation, and she stuck to her guns.”
She was so shocked to see her coworker acting like this that when she finally had enough, she excused herself to go to the bathroom.
However, she didn’t actually go to the bathroom. Instead, she found their server, paid the bill, gave her a tip, and apologized. Then, she left the restaurant without alerting her coworker and went back to work.
When her coworker returned to their office, she confronted her about ditching her in the restaurant. She asked her coworker why she felt the need to lie and harass the restaurant employees even after realizing she made a mistake.
“She said she was embarrassed, and it was easier to just follow through instead of admitting her mistake,” she added.
Her coworker said being left alone in the restaurant made her look like a fool, and she was angry that she didn’t have her for backup.
Was it wrong of her to abandon her friend at the restaurant, or was her friend being too much?
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