I engaged in a “Rude Off” contest at work, where me and the fellow waiters see who can be rudest to a customer before they ask for a manager

Every now and then when the “cool manager” is the only one working, most of the staff will have a “Rude Off”. Raincandy-angel. The contest is basically to see who can me the rudest to a customer before a customer asks for a manager. I know it sounds bad but usually our antics are pretty mild.

Things on this particular evening escalated too much though, like when a waiter spilled water onto the table, and instead of apologizing he laughed, said “Whooooooops”, and walked away. I decided to get weird.

I ran up to my table making loud fart noises and weird, squid-like arm motions. Then I shouted at a woman at the table “I saw a mouse crawl into that soup and I still served it to you!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!” Raincandy-angel. I thought she’d see it was a joke, but instead…she vomited. Disgusting! That’s when I knew I might be in serious trouble, so I ran back into the kitchen.

Sure enough there was a manager complaint. A big one. But it turns out, someone else got blamed.
The manager promised he would be fired and swore he was lying about the mouse (which I was lying of course). The manager didn’t actually fire him because he’s a cool dude and doesn’t give a ****, but I honestly do feel bad. I knew the customer would be astonished and maybe momentarily freaked, but I didn’t expect such an extreme reaction. So I am sorry.