Today I was in Harrods at Bentley’s Seafood Grill. A young lady sat down one bar stool away from me on my left. When she sat down I noticed her sunglasses, high heeled designer tennis shoes, black leggings, white “doctor’s coat” and little black purse with fluffy yellow feathers in the face of a cat. The first thing she does is pull out her cell phone and without removing her sunglasses she began to order her meal. I could tell right away that she was going to be a difficult customer for the waiter. She quizzed him on several of the dishes and then ordered the lobster with rice. She finally removed her sunglasses and I noticed that she also had designer fake eyelashes on both the top and bottom eyelids.
She was served the lobster in a very short amount of time and as soon as it came out she began to complain. It evidently did not have the right topping as she wanted some special dip for it and needed tomatoes and basil in olive oil salad. So the first waiter proceeds to talk to the chef about the sauce and orders the tomatoes and basil salad dish. She then asks for bread and a sprite with extra lemon. The waiter goes to retrieve her bread and drink while she finishes off one of the two lobster tails and begins on the second one. The first waiter comes back and she complains the lobster was not cooked right and asks for a replacement but instead of lobster she wants the Dover sole grilled. He tries to take the remainder of the lobster away since she did not like it but she says no just leave it I am eating my rice from that plate. A second waiter then brings the tomatoes and basil in olive oil and the Dover sole just as the young lady finishes the second lobster tail. The young lady then complains again to the second waiter and and asks for the fried prawns as a replacement for the lobster. She also demands the shells be removed but not the plate because she has spread her rice on it and was mixing her tomato salad with the rice. The second waiter returns with the fried prawns and sets them on the shelf above her place because she has no room for another large dish. Mind you she now has finished two lobster tails on one plate, eaten half of the Dover sole with baby asparagus on another plate, a bowl of rice, a large cereal sized bowl of tomatoes, and four pieces of bread. The first waiter comes out and she complains the prawns are undercooked as she turns one of them halfway over with her fork. He takes the plate back to the chef who evidently puts them in the oven to make the outside more crispy for her. The first waiter brings it back to her and she tells him she doesn’t want them and to take it away. He looks at her and asks did you not order them and calls over the second waiter. The young lady said they were to replace the lobster but it took too long so she no longer wants them.
Meanwhile, I look to the gentleman on my right and had to fight not to laugh. He was evidently as astonished and I was because he started witnessing her demands about halfway through. He whispered to me, did she really just tell that waiter to remove those from her sight? I said yes and now she wants the bill, I’m curious as to what dish they are going to charge to her and whether she will agree to pay for anything except the sprite. The second waiter brings the bill and instead of looking at the bill the young lady proceeds to fix her makeup and ignores the waiter. Finally after she is done with her lipstick and has replaced her sunglasses she reviews the bill. She calls the second waiter over to complain about what she was charged. The first waiter had to come back over to review the charges with her and of course she wanted the tomatoes and basil salad removed because that was supposed to go with the lobster. He had to explain to her that she ordered them as a separate side after the lobster and she continued to eat them with her Dover sole. I took a picture of her food because it was so unbelievable.
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