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How do people feel about when you go out to dinner and the wait staff comes over and sings happy birthday to you at your table. Assuming it is your birthday of course.
I personally wouldn't like it and tell people I'm with not to not do it. Besides I'm sure the waiters and waiteresses must be sick of doing it too.
So, am I an oddball or do you guys like it???
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I hate it.
It makes the restaurant seem tacky. The Olive Garden has passable food but, when they do that, it makes me less amenable to coming back there to eat.
For my 30th birthday, my mom and grandmother arranged for some of my friends to meet us at a restaurant. I specifically told my mom that she was to make sure that no one sang to me. As we were having drinks, a cop came in with a rose asking for me by name. I turned to my SIL and said, "YOU are Patty McDonald!". She raised her hand and proceded to have a strip tease and lap dance by the "cop".
For my 30th birthday, my mom and grandmother arranged for some of my friends to meet us at a restaurant. I specifically told my mom that she was to make sure that no one sang to me. As we were having drinks, a cop came in with a rose asking for me by name. I turned to my SIL and said, "YOU are Patty McDonald!". She raised her hand and proceded to have a strip tease and lap dance by the "cop".
Now that's a great SIL!
Was he hot? Sounds like it was an entertaining show. If it happened to me I would have been mortified but trying to play along. I still have a little shyness left with others.
I understand that it's corny but the intention is to be fun. I feel sorry for the friends and family of the wet blankets who've posted here. It's just a song and it's over fairly quickly. Just grin and bear it. There are worse things in the world than someone wanting to give you the spotlight on your birthday.
I understand that it's corny but the intention is to be fun. I feel sorry for the friends and family of the wet blankets who've posted here. It's just a song and it's over fairly quickly. Just grin and bear it. There are worse things in the world than someone wanting to give you the spotlight on your birthday.
But if its truly done for the birthday person, it should be something they would enjoy. To do it because its something you enjoy but knowing they would be uncomfortable, is selfish. Its selfish because its not actually for them at all. The point is for the birthday person to enjoy themselves, right. That should be respected, whether you agree with it or not.
Yes, it is corny, so what? If people get embarrassed, or hate it, or even go to the extreme of ending a relationship over something trivial, then it would seem people have a low esteem of themselves.
Also, I would venture to bet that some, if not many, of those who don't like to have people celebrate their birthday at a restaurant are the same people who will leave the restaurant, go to club, or a party in their honor, get sht faced drunk and make asses of themselves in public anyway.
God, people. Lighten up. OK, you don't like it. But you make it sound like you're being raped.
Make it known to your friends/family that you DO NOT like it. If they choose to disrespect your wishes, be an adult. Grin and bear it.
I don't care either way. As for the wait staff, it's their job. That's why places like Red Robin and Applebee's have their little ditties they sing. Does the wait staff hate it? Possibly some of them, just like some of them hate bussing tables or making schedules.
It's not the end of the world.
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