What is the strangest excuse you have ever heard from a waiter?

Going beyond the ‘Oh, waiter there is a fly in my soup’, what are the strangest excuses, mishaps and irritations you have ever endured in a restaurant?

Last night we went for dinner at a fancy restaurant. Well, I guess for this area it is. No candle light, no dimmed lighting and the atmosphere of a library, I felt. There were candles on the walls, which I suspected they lit after a certain time, so inquired as to when they would be lighting them.

‘Oh no’ said the waiter ‘We do not light them at all, no one here is tall enough to reach them’.

Do share your strange waiter experiences!