Thread by @ChloePees

I wish people in general knew how to use the cues people use in restaurants, when walking in crowded areas. Stuff like shouting “corner” and “behind” and “sharp” on the off chance they’re carrying something pointy, and staying to the right side of the sidewalk or whatever.

I found when serving in a crowded space that the diners don’t really understand anything, let alone cues staff use on each other. Even if I yelled a sentence like “coming around the corner with a tray of food/drinks!” they were completely oblivious unless security yelled “MOVE!”

I think people get dumber when they’re standing around in a crowded environment that’s supposed to be fun. It’s like they know they’re being served so they just drop all comprehension of the world around them because they expect to have that done for them as well.

Anything from reading signs to not standing in heavily trafficked walkways that your common sense would tell you not to stand in in another scenario, it all goes out the window

The observations I’m making of crowds are pre-pandemic ones

At least in this thread

One of the things I noticed the most (that goes along with what I observed so far) is that if you are in a serving position, it’s as though you don’t exist. It takes a great deal of effort to get a person to acknowledge you, even if it’s in their best interest

It doesn’t matter how beautiful or ugly you are, what you gender or skin color is, whether you’re disabled or not, the list goes on. If you are a servant you WILL be ignored by most diners, until they decide to seek you out, and at the most inconvenient moment for you possible

It will be when you have just spilled something on yourself and are trying to remember 10 things while holding 5 stacks of things, that is when they will decide to realize that you do indeed exist

Until then, you can say anything and gesture all you want and wait patiently and do everything you can to get their attention, but they will continue talking amongst themselves while standing somewhere they shouldn’t be, forever until the end of time

And in that inconvenient and embarrassing moment when they do need you, they will need you DESPERATELY and if you show even the slightest bit of annoyance or disdain or ask them to wait just a minute, they will become furious.