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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:10 PM Aug 2016

Christians stiff Missouri waiter, leave anti-gay note instead of tip

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Eddy Cabrera, a waiter at Chelly’s Cafe in Kansas City, Missouri got an unexpected surprise from a table of homophobic customers too busy lovin’ Jesus to love their fellow man. After the group treated Cabrera disrespectfully, they didn’t leave a tip on their $84 check and instead left an anti-gay note.

“Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!” the group wrote on a napkin that Cabrera found after the group left the restaurant. Cabrera, who was raised in Guatemala, didn’t understand the message at first until a friend explained it to him.

His friend, Jonathon Antle, who posted a photo of the note on Facebook that Cabrera “almost started crying” when he understood what the group had written. “This is his livelihood, and they treated him like dirt the entire time,” Antle said. “They just took food off of his ’table’ instead of treating him with basic human decency.”

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After the story blew up, internet sleuths tracked down Tonisha Flowers, the woman who signed the credit card slip. In an update on the photo, Antle says she has apologized to Cabrera, saying it was someone else who wrote the note. No word on whether she came back to give the hardworking waiter a tip on that $84 bill.

Full story:

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/christians-stiff-missouri-waiter-leave-anti-gay-note-instead-tip/

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Christians stiff Missouri waiter, leave anti-gay note instead of tip (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
And we know they are Christians how? B2G Aug 2016 #1
If they were Christians, they forgot a Bible verse: friendly_iconoclast Aug 2016 #5
I'm not aware of too many non-religious adherents which believe in an "Adam and Eve" jberryhill Aug 2016 #6
I am saying that anyone using a tired, worn out cliche like that B2G Aug 2016 #9
Odds of this being real: low nt Dreamer Tatum Aug 2016 #2
Agreed pintobean Aug 2016 #10
Super low REP Aug 2016 #12
Looks like this one is real. Read the Facebook posts at the link. yardwork Aug 2016 #14
The Jay Polk story broke on Facebook. pintobean Aug 2016 #16
CINOs Beartracks Aug 2016 #3
Transparent rationalizing. lpbk2713 Aug 2016 #4
Jesus would hate these people. Initech Aug 2016 #7
What ugly people those folks are. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2016 #8
One point though, you will never ever see a tip amount on a CC receipt from me. CBGLuthier Aug 2016 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Oneironaut Aug 2016 #13
Disgusting bluestateguy Aug 2016 #15
Back in the 90s LWolf Aug 2016 #17
 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
5. If they were Christians, they forgot a Bible verse:
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:32 PM
Aug 2016

1 Corinthians 9, verse 9

"Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain."

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
6. I'm not aware of too many non-religious adherents which believe in an "Adam and Eve"
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:50 PM
Aug 2016

Are you suggesting there are non-religious persons who believe that the progenitors of the human race were a couple named "Adam and Eve"?

 

B2G

(9,766 posts)
9. I am saying that anyone using a tired, worn out cliche like that
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 01:13 PM
Aug 2016

isn't necessarily a Christian.

The title of the OP assumes that they are.

REP

(21,691 posts)
12. Super low
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 01:38 PM
Aug 2016

Chelly's is in Waldo, a neighborhood over from where I grew up. It's extremely unlikely this happened.

Has any of these turned out to be real?

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,736 posts)
8. What ugly people those folks are.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:59 PM
Aug 2016

If there is any god at all, that being embodies love.

These fools don't seem to realize that.

My heart goes out to Cabrera.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
11. One point though, you will never ever see a tip amount on a CC receipt from me.
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 01:28 PM
Aug 2016

I always tip cash. Too many restaurants do shitty things with tips that are on the receipt.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
17. Back in the 90s
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 06:51 PM
Aug 2016

I was working a second job waiting tables to pay the rent. I worked a Sunday night shift. I got the station nobody wanted, because that's where the local church gathered after Sunday evening services.

They would have all the tables pushed together into one long table, end to end, taking up the entire floor. The adults sat there.

Then they sent their kids to sit in the booths around the outside of the tables.

The adults would order pie and coffee, all separate checks for individuals or couples, want their coffee refilled continuously, and leave a coin for a tip. Some left no tip. Some a dime. Some even a quarter.

The kids? They ordered french fries, desserts, and drinks. All on separate checks. They played with everything in every booth; salt, pepper, condiments, etc., making a grand mess to clean up IN EVERY BOOTH. Their parents gave them cash to pay their checks with. They left NO tip. They left, for each check, big piles of dollar bills and change for me to sort through to see if any change needed to be returned, and take to the register for them, etc..

I never got notes, although they did want to "witness" every time I filled their coffee. Still, they were the people nobody wanted to serve. Since I was the part-timer, I got stuck.



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