Saturday, November 9, 2019

Feel good story of the day

"Waffle House customers help stranded employee by washing dishes, taking orders: ‘It was incredible to witness’".

I don't get a chance to eat at Waffle House very often, but I've never had any complaints to make about the food. And you can get a very diverse view of the world there. I recollect eating in a Waffle House late one night, somewhere outside of Jacksonville, Florida, probably 35 some years ago. There were half a dozen members of a motorcycle gang taking up a couple of booths, and, I swear, they were the least scary people in the place.

6 comments:

JeffS said...

Waffle House has a good reputation. Ever hear of the Waffle House Index?

(Full disclosure: never ate there myself.)

Deborah said...

If the story is true, that WH has fantastic customers and Ben the employee. Ben's response to why he didn't bail is especially heartwarming. THe should be Employee of the Year.

Deborah said...

Addition to previous. Waffle House should reward the customers who pitched in. In Ben's spirit, "it's the right thing to do".

RebeccaH said...

Well, it was Florida, Mr. Paco. In Florida, I wouldn't even go into an innocuous Waffle House if it was late at night. Otherwise, good breakfast food.

Also, most motorcycle "gangs" get a bad rap. The majority of them are clubs made up of old fat guys in leather vests and bandannas who just like to roar up and down the highways, pretending to be badass. There was just such a Harley-Davidson club in the town next over from my small town in Ohio who would ride in our Fourth of July and Christmas parades with Pomeranians riding in baskets on their handlebars. They called themselves Dogs on Hogs (I think one of the riders was a local Pomeranian breeder).

Spiny Norman said...

Rebecca,

The criminal gangs on Harleys refer to themselves as "1%ers", after some politician's speech denouncing the "1% of riders who give everyone else a bad reputation" (or something similar). The Hell's Angels, Mongols, Vagos (the major CA "clubs") all claim they're not (or no longer) criminal organizations, but no one believes them.

Ironically, the "original" Hell's Angels motorcycle club were the crew of a B-17 nicknamed "Hell's Angels" on surplus US Army Harley-Davidsons, and had nothing to do with the "outlaw" motorcycle gang it became by the 1960s. (One of the Flying Tiger AVG squadrons, and the top-scoring, was also named "Hell's Angels", but that is not where they came from.)

Paco said...

I think the bikers were members of the Outlaws - still, they weren't the scariest folks in the place.