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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
How do you handle restaurant mishaps?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Let me just say this now. I am not a spiller. My kids are spillers, my husband is a spiller. There’s not a week that goes by where some drink doesn’t get knocked over, leaking all over the tablecloth and floor. But I luckily, have been spared. Until last week that is.
While my kids are enjoying cool days and even cooler nights in the mountains of their overnight camp, my husband, Rich, and I have been hitting the town, trying new restaurants without the added cost of babysitting.
We were at Holeman & Finch, a truly yummy place, catching up with a friend and enjoying small plates and excellent wine. There is a sort of communal table placed in the middle of the restaurant, which leaves about 2 inches between you and your neighbor. It’s not a sardine situation, but it’s “intimate”.
During an animated conversation my hand gesture aligned exactly with my wine glass, causing the red wine (of course) to act as a projectile, splattering not only Rich across from me, but the two people to his right.
Needless to say, I was mortified as I watched red wine spray the pale pink sweater on a beautiful Carolyn Bissette Kennedy look-alike and dot the shirt of the handsome young husband sitting next to her. Who knew wine could fly that high?
It was one of those humiliating moments when there is nothing you can do but apologize profusely and offer to pay for their dry cleaning (which they refused). I have to say, they couldn’t have been more gracious about it, waving off the incident as a minor bump in between courses. It was a lesson in courtesy, one that I hope I remember if I am ever on the other end of a rogue wine glass.
We told the waitress to buy their table a round of drinks and apologized again when we left, but I still was absolutely mortified. Have you had an embarrassing moment in a restaurant? How did you make amends?
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