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Gavin, you got a refund on food you hadn't even paid for? That's pretty hardcore.

― N., Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

yesh indeed, he says, preening himself. An amusing little notion. It must be said though, the food was utter cack and we deserved reimbursement for actually eating half of it.

Also, it was actually december '00, not thi Christmas. And it still gives me a warm and sexy glow.

― misterjones, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh right! I've never seen Ready-brek on the menu at pubs I go to. But then I've never been to a Harvester before.

― chris, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Whilst wandering up along Millbank earlier I noticed a 'bar' selling organic porridge.

― Sarah, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am tempted to draw a connection between mrgavin's ice-breaking admission, the sudden turn in conversation to porridge, and the fact that most posters to this thread are British, but that would be presumptuous, so I won't, hur hur.

My own story on this is so awful and humiliating that I'm going to have to work up to it.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I went on a road trip when I was 17 and my friends and I pulled eat & runs at a Denny's, King's Table, some really swank italian joint, and we also did a gas & run at this station which we were confident was outdated and in-the-booneys enough to not have cameras. We had the cash, so why? The same reason I shoplifted 400 bucks worth of Eddie Bauer gear I didn't need over a 2 week period when I was 14, the same reason I shot some kid in the dick with my air pistol on Halloween '95 and stole his Mighty Mites, the same reason my friend Eric started keying up teachers' cars even though the teachers liked him, the same reason my upper-middle-class cracker friend Stefanie volunteered to get pimped for three crayzay months by this 30-yr old guy that looked like KRS-one, the same reason I used to take city buses instead of having my mom pick me up from school in her Lexus SC400: just trying to be hardcore. Shrug.

― Ramosi, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yet, no one made a reference to Casper, the dine-and-dash cult hero of ROADSIDE PROPHETS....

― Gage-o, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

[...] the same reason I shot some kid in the dick with my air pistol on Halloween '95 and stole his Mighty Mites [...]

DAMN.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Semi-related: I once went skiing with cousin, slimed my way into the 21+ lounge with my 'mature look' (fake earring, cigarettes, really dumb intense brooding look on my face), ate, paid the bill with generous tip, left, started clomping down the stairs back to gondola, then our waitress (who was giving us the evil eye all night) comes flying down, yelling, waving our bill in our face...."Your bill was FORTY TWO DOLLARS"....I'm like, "I know! I left you FORTY FIVE!".....She's like, "No you DID NOT".....I'm freaking out and I follow her back inside and immediately spot the 20 on the floor - she probably dropped it while picking up the shit.....she tries to play it off, doesn't even say sorry....all I do is say "PFFFFF" and walk away. This anecdote isn't funny until I get to the part where it's hours later, I'm at home, I've just showered, and I'm fuming, tearing myself up over how much crazier a scene I could have made, even playacting different approaches - shirtless in mirror, chest and face beet red, shout-whispering shit like, "Bitch give me your manager....Do you know who I am? ::Turn as if turning to other people in lounge:: Did you see this shit?"

― Ramosi, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Eeek. Yes Dan, that did come across a bit...heartless. I guess I should say the air pistol was a pretty weak Crossman and it didn't even pierce the kid's jeans - still, he went down pretty quick...and he probably thought the gun was real so for a minute life must have seemed pretty grim.... Ok, resolution: I stopped shoplifting when I got busted trying to walk out of The Bon with one of those leather- bound agendas, my mom had to pick me up and she actually starting hitting me in the security office and I started crying (why do rent-a- cops always bring you to the "leader" rent-a-cop who just wears street clothes?). Steffie's had to change schools after the hoe-ing thing because everyone was dissing her which was funny because she used to diss everyone else, she was pretty warped for about a year to tell you the truth and her parents put her on lockdown. Eric never got busted for keying up the cars but he is quite miserable and unfulfilled these days. See? Karma always comes around. I have a feeling I'll pay for those eat & runs very soon. Huh? What? OHHHHH NOOOOO THE NICKELBACK VIDEO IS ON!!!!!

― Ramosi, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Is ramosi real, or a character from Traffic?

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's a big difference between complaining about poor food and expecting an appropriate bill adjustment and the dine and ditch thing. I once knew some very privileged girls from a private school who pulled the dine and ditch on a regular basis - bloody entitlement issues - and even though I explained that the waiter/ess would have to forfeit their tips to make up the deficit, they just laughed it off and said the worker deserved it for working in the shithole they'd chosen to fleece. One factor instrumental in my falling out with the 'friend' in question.

― suzy, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

we flirted with the idea in high school..but shouting started over someone to stay at the table as the others walked out calmly before he dashed..maybe if we all ran at the same time it would have worked.

― kevin enas, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Wasn't there an episode of Silver Spoons about this?

― Kris, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

YES! That was one of my favorite episodes of that show ever!

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think I've dated Ramosi.

This question was only prompted by our Mexican fiesta, Tracer, admit it. The worst run out in history was with Otis Wheeler, we were all in this dumpy ass diner in, where, Northampton? Who the fuck knows, anyhow for no reason whatsoever - I mean we all had the cash - we decide to get up and go without leaving the money. The problem was that I somehow got stuck on the edge of the table (my trenchcoat, incidentally, actually ripped because of this, and like the puke on the collar I still haven't fixed it) and while everyone else walked outside, I was stuck with the waitress staring me down. But then everyone CAME BACK for me, and we STILL RAN OUT. So in retrospect I'm not sure if we completed the worst or the best run out in history.

― Ally, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The correct way to do this is complain during the meal and then leave what you believe the meal was worth with your name and address in case they want to take you to a small claims court. The SCC deals with about five of these a year and the diner always wins.

Then the waiters and the restaurant owner come round your house and kick your head in.

Curry house in Camden there was a dispute over whether we had paid all the bill or not (we had) so we ran down the road flicking the V's and bad mouthing the joint. Ha ha.

― Pete, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ally I've got to say that's really gross. Not even I would leave puke on a coat for that long!

― Sarah, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm hoping you mean Northampton in the Midlands. (Is Northampton in the midlands? It's one of those nebulous neither one thing nor the other places, like Stoke, Chepstow or Nottingham)

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Northampton in Massachusetts, I'm sure.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Shame. I bet Northhampton, Northants. has some really dumpy diners.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eleven years pass...

So, dine and dash baptism tonight, involved lots of running but I'm fast and it was worth it: service was awful and we really had to go.

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 1 September 2013 07:08 (ten years ago) link

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