I can top that. Back in my early twenties, before I got married, a group of five of my single friends took our dates out to dinner. We had a large table for ten. When the waitress brought out everyone's plates, she had forgotten mine. No big deal I thought. I sat there patiently and told everyone at the table to go ahead and start without me.
Well, she didn't come back with my plate for about 20 minutes. Everyone was just about done with their meals. She finally appeared with my plate. After a few minutes, everyone was finished and I was still sitting there tending to my steak and potato. I was the only one still eating. Everyone was even finished with their desserts.
To bring this episode to conclusion, when we all got up to leave our table, I qucikly took a $50 dollar bill out of my wallet and tore off 3/4 of it and slid the 1/4 under my plate with some of this 1/4 showing.
When we all got to the door to walk out to the parking lot, my friends and I stopped momentarily and looked back....just in time to see that waitress...pick up the fifty. We all laughed heartily while she threw it on the floor and trudged off. (To be perfectly honest here, I remember that my date didn't like what I had done to the waitress....of course, I never asked her out -ever again.)
BRAVO!!
Entirely appropriate, and I’d be willing to bet that waitress still remembers the night she got her comeuppance for lousy service.
Nicely done. :)
And btw, just before we all got up, I told all the guys there -not to leave their tips- that I’d leave a big enough tip- for all of us! Period!