We've all had those dining experiences when things went dreadfully wrong. Perhaps it was a social blunder, an obnoxious diner, a waiter with an attitude, an embarrassing faux pas, or a food or beverage incident. Find out what others have had to endure by reading stories about dinners gone bad.
One evening my girlfriend and I decided to go to a local brewery restaurant that we had been to many times before for a romantic evening out. But what we didn’t realise was that a band was going to be practising their rock and roll in the dining hall next door.
My girlfriend and I were holding hands across the table and were just about to kiss when there was suddenly this almighty noise. And then all the surfaces started to shake. The band next door were playing their music so loud it was causing an earthquake. Our drinks and plates were slowly moving across the table from the vibrations. The music was really loud and I could barley hear what my girlfriend was saying. We nearly jumped out of our skins when the band started to blast their music. Even the staff standing behind the bar had their hands over their ears and trying to stop the glasses and bottles from falling off the counter and shelves. Even when you stood up you could feel the floor shaking. We had to yell to each other for the rest of the evening as the band never stopped playing once. When we got up to leave I was sure some of the furniture had moved around a bit and it took a while for the ringing in our ears to go away.
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When I was a young boy, my mother and I were staying at a seaside hotel for a needed break. One evening we were sitting in the hotel’s restaurant having a drink and listening to the hotel’s singers. Unfortunately our evening was about to be ruined at the arrival of a scruffy fellow who decided without our permission to sit with us. Eyes on my mother, he began to flatter her with compliments on her looks, and saying that he had never met a woman like her.
Needless to say we were quite annoyed at this flashy intruder, so I cleared my throat finally getting his attention. Nothing we did seemed to get the message across to him that we wanted to be alone. This guy finally leaned closer to my mother and said that she had a beautiful bun of hair! That was a cue for a swift exit. We left the table leaving this weirdo staring longingly after us. The next morning my poor mother was constantly looking over her shoulder to make sure that her admirer was not there.
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My friends and I once went to a fab looking restaurant while travelling abroad. The food was wonderful and the staff were super nice, and even better we were seated outside in the hot and sunny weather, so it was a perfect environment to eat.
When we had finished our meal I decided I needed to go to the bathroom. I told my friends I would be back shortly and spotted a sign saying TOILETS pointing to a staircase going down. While descending down the spiralling staircase, I noticed that it was taking an unusually long time to reach the bottom and the environment seemed to be deteriorating the further down I got. Finally I reached the bottom and stopped dead. The scene in front of me looked very much like the set of a horror film. A long corridor with dirty, grey walls with peeling paint, loud pipes were sticking out of the walls and ceiling, and a big fan was rotating near the ceiling on the other side of the corridor. It was dimly lit and quite a foreboding atmosphere. Normally I would have fled in fear, but the hotel was quite a walk so I tried to be brave and continue.
Heart beating and breathing deeply, I walked down the corridor with several doors until I finally found two doors opposite each other labeled MALE and FEMALE. With a shaking hand I reached out for the door when it suddenly opened. I gasped when a rather scruffy fellow stalked out of it. He took one glance at me before shuffling off. Pulling myself together I went inside and it was just as bad in here. After doing my business and washing my hands, I practically ran out of there and back upstairs. When I told my friends where I had been they were wary of climbing down hell’s descent.
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My friend once told me of a strange incident that happened to her while eating at a local fast food restaurant with her girlfriends. Her friend ordered a simple grilled chicken burger and asked that the mayonnaise be left out. Her burger was given to her and they all sat down to eat. However when she was about to take a bite she noticed what appeared to be a white slimy substance oozing out of the burger. She at first thought it was mayonnaise so she took it back to the counter and said she asked for a burger with no mayonnaise. The staff looked confused and said they did not put any mayonnaise in her burger. When she opened her burger, to everyone’s disgust and horror the slimy blob was secreting from the very undercooked chicken in the burger. I’m not sure what happened after that but I was a bit wary about going back to that place again.
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