A woman has claimed she’s so sick of her boyfriend being ’embarrassing’ whenever they go out to dinner together that she’s considering breaking up with him, and it’s all down to one thing
You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat restaurant staff.
Restaurants are common places to go on a first date, and while it can be daunting to eat in front of someone you barely know, you can learn a lot from watching how they interact with the people around them. For example, if they’re rude and impatient to the wait staff taking your order, you might think twice about seeing them again.
One woman, however, is only just noticing her boyfriend’s “embarrassing” restaurant etiquette – and it’s making her reconsider her entire relationship. She claimed her partner always complains about his food no matter what he orders, but there’s never anything wrong with it.
In a post on Reddit, the woman explained her boyfriend often orders things that he “visions in a certain way,” but what arrives is never what he expects. She has tried telling him exactly what he’ll get, but he never listens to her and instead just “complains that it’s not what he had in mind”.
Most recently, he did this when he asked for an espresso macchiato at a coffee shop, and was furious when it arrived in a small cup. The woman recounted: “Yesterday, he ordered an espresso macchiato. A couple of minutes later, the waiter brings him exactly that, after which he freaks out, whining about not being able to get a decent coffee. I used to work as a barista so I know my way around coffee, and I explained that he got a perfectly prepared espresso macchiato. Apparently, he automatically assumed that he’d get ‘a large cup of black coffee with milk’ just because of the word macchiato.”
And the very next day the couple were out getting brunch and decided to get toasted sandwiches. The woman read out what they had available, and her boyfriend picked the “veggie cheese” – and then complained when it arrived because he thought his girlfriend had said “eggs and cheese”.
She added: “He liked the sound of veggie cheese, so he agreed to that. The waiter brings his veggie toast, he whips the sandwich open, frantically searching for the eggs. I asked him what eggs. He told me he understood ‘eggs and cheese’ instead of ‘veggie cheese’ and didn’t bother to look at the menu as he ‘trusted me’.
“This is probably the fifth time in a row that the same incident occurred, and I’m getting frustrated with him refusing to learn at least a few basic types of coffee since he’s already consuming it on a regular basis. He ended up causing a scene.”
Commenters on the post urged the woman to reconsider her relationship, as many said her boyfriend seemed insufferable to be around. One person said: “You really don’t have to date people like this. You can be single and have a lovely brunch experience on your own.”
Another added: “There are three very different issues. First, not understanding what he is ordering. Second, not being flexible to adjust when what he imagined would happen didn’t. Third is incredibly poor behaviour towards staff.”
