AITAH for telling my wife and her girlfriends to shut up and calling them idiots for how they behaved at a Mexican restaurant.
I, 32F, am married to Jenna, 29. Since we are all spending time with our families over the holidays we decided to have a big friends supper last weekend. We picked an “authentic” Mexican restaurant in our city. Our state borders Canada not Mexico so please take that with a grain of salt.
At this restaurant one of the services they provide is making guacamole from scratch at your table in a big volcanic stone mortar and pestle. I believe it is called ba molecajete. It is a cool little bit if theater and the guac is delicious.
A few people in our group do not like cilantro. We watched while the server made the guac and nobody said anything. But as soon as if was made they started complaining about the cilantro. The server was apologetic and offered to make some without cilantro. Problem solved right? Nope. They were upset that they had to wait. I asked them why they didn’t say anything before the cilantro was added. That way some without cilantro could have been set aside for them. All of them said they didn’t want to interrupt the show. It was fucking ridiculous.
I offered to pay for a new portion of guac without cilantro. Completely out of my pocket. They all started saying that I didn’t have to do that. But they all still wanted some without cilantro. I asked them all to tell me a solution to the problem of them wanting guac without cilantro without the server making a new batch, which would be free, which I find unfair because it wasn’t their fault. Or me paying for cilantroless guac for them. They were arguing for almost three minutes before I told them to STFU and ordered more without cilantro. I may have muttered about fucking idiots under my breath. I cannot honestly remember.
My wife and her friends are upset that I unilaterally fixed the problem and that I told them to shut up and called them idiots.
I just wanted my food. And to let the poor server get on with her job.
Aitah?
