This British chick comes in, all dressed up for her big night out. She's barely coherent, very moody, and needs food. I'm guessing she was in the club next door and needed some food to absorb all the alcohol. She orders a chicken salad and spaghetti (rudely) then promptly falls asleep perched on a tall bar chair. A minute or two after she receives her salad I notice it has spread all over the bar counter. I figure she probably tipped the plate and spilled salad all over the place mat. I'm in automatic cleaning mode as I head over, planning to scoop the spilled food up with the place mat and tidy up a little bit.
As I reach for the plate, her hand darts out: she grabs a fistful of salad and stuffs it into her mouth, glaring at me as she does it. Half of it spills down the front of her dress. I look in her lap and see a pile of food. She's too drunk to use a fork so has reverted back to childhood, eating with her hands while sitting in a high chair. I mouth a silent prayer her spaghetti won't get the same treatment. It doesn't; she can twirl the fork easier than using it as a shovel. However, she can't cut, so she twirls massive amounts of noodles onto the fork and has trouble stuffing it all in at the same time. Her dress is soaking up salad dressing.
She eventually falls asleep with the fork in hand. She starts swaying back and forth, and wakes up with a start just before losing her balance. On a tall chair it is a long fall to the concrete and I'm thinking lawsuit so I look for the manager. I find him standing with a group of women literally four seats down the bar. He is pointing out the drunk girl and saying "Look look look she's gonna fall, she's gonna fall!" So much for alerting the manager about a dangerous situation. He is talking so loud I'm worried she's going to get offended, but she's so out of it she doesn't seem to notice a half-dozen people staring and talking. Everyone seems to expect me to do something about it, but what can I do when the manager already knows the situation? I never even served her a drink. She perks up as her friend joins her. They gossip about guys in the club; she looks better with the distraction.
After 5 minutes security shows up (I'm guessing the manager called them.) They approach the girls, ask how they're doing, is everything all right, etc. The girl friend looks really confused. When drunk girl goes to the bathroom I told her her friend was passed out at the bar and that's why security was checking on them and she says "Oh, I thought it was because we are English or something."
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