This is not the worst kind of person, it’s just that he popped into my head when I read the question. My best friend’s boyfriend finds fault in every restaurant he’s ever set foot in. Me and my best friend love to go out to eat and discover new and interesting restaurants. Usually it’s just the 2 of us (thank goodness) but sometimes her boyfriend comes along. He complains if the waiter doesn’t put water on the table before his butt hits the chair (even if some of us don’t want water, he demands that they bring it for everyone, NOW!) But if they bring it out too quickly, he complains that we weren’t even seated yet and the waiter was in the way. Then he complains about the speed of the waiters coming with menus, or taking our orders, or getting the food out. And it’s not that he thinks they’re too slow, sometimes he thinks they are too fast and haven’t given him adquate time to “prepare himself.” So everything is always too fast or too slow, too salty or not salty enough, too hot or too cold, too spicy or too bland, too much food or not enough food, to red in color or not red enough, to weird, to average, the water is too cold or doesn’t have enough ice, the milk is too thick or doesn’t taste like his milk at home, the pizza has too much cheese or not enough cheese, the bread is too stale or so fresh that he can’t cut it properly, it’s too drippy or not juicy enough, it doesn’t have enough lettuce or too much lettuce and they should know that it makes him have to poop, the place it too loud or it’s too quiet and makes him nervous, there’s too many choices on the menu, or they don’t have anything that he wants, he wants a vegetarian restaurant, but not one with all this “weird stuff” he wants a healthy meal, but not one that contains mushrooms, beans, the wrong kind of cheese, peppers, tofu, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, tomatoes, onions or anything he doesn’t recognize. And to top this off, he will try to order for me! There have been times that I’ve been “forced” to dine with him and I just wanted to cry at the table and apologize to the wait staff. My best friend, who would never put up with this type of behavior and crap from anyone else, just sits there and tries to justify it by saying things like: “Yeah, it was a little too cheesy.” or “Yeah, they were kind of too fast in bringing out that water when we were trying to look at the menu.” She never, ever does this when it’s just the 2 of us and she’s a very easy going and content woman who loves almost everything we’ve ever eaten, but when her boyfriend is with us, she just lets him act like an ass. Some of the places that my best friend and I have gone to on our own and loved, he tries the place once, says how terrible it was and then he refuses to ever go back again.
