Fun With Guns: There Goes Your Tip Edition
This story takes place in Texas, of damn course.
There’s a semi-famous steakhouse in San Antonio known as the Little Red Barn Steakhouse. Their employees wear fake guns and holster because … I dunno, it seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess.
During the lunch hour, a table of men got plenty riled up when the waiter screwed up their order. The rest of the event was handled in customary Texas fashion. There are just no words to tell this story properly, so I’ll steal some from the teevee station that covered it.
“The customers mentioned that he messed up their order, so when the waiter went to the side to step back, one of the customers got loose and started beating on the waiter,” the witness said.
She added that the waiter was able to get away and returned with a gun.
“All I saw was a black gun, cocked it back, went up in the air and shot,” the witness recalled.
The scene after that was described as “pandemonium,” instead of the more familiar Texas description of, “damn goat rodeo.” A witness speaks —
“There was old ladies on the floor, one in the back actually crying,” she noted. “It was scary.”
Yes, old ladies crying often scare me, too.
It just doesn’t get any worse than that, does it? Most Texans I know would just get under a table or behind the bar and take their steak with them.
The waiter and the customers left the scene immediately. I kinda suspect they went over to Clyde’s Ice House and Cantina to get some more beer.
But here’s the part that even you people from foreign states will love —
Police say that all of them could face charges, and the waiter could lose his job since the restaurant told KENS 5 that it’s against company policy for employees to carry guns.
The waiter “could” lose his job. He could. He won’t, ya know. This is Texas, Honey.
Thanks to Charles for the heads up.
Isn’t an armed society supposed to be a polite society? Funny how the presence of firearms seems to make people less polite…
1Funny! But when I saw “There Goes Your Tip Edition,” I figured that someone stuck a loaded pistol in their waistband and… there goes your tip.
But I guess you’d call that “Cowboy Mohel” edition. If you eat the whole 48-oz steak, you get a free .45-caliber bris.
2You people sure know how to have fun at dinner time.
3Atmosphere. I guess thats what the steakhouse was after years ago when it opened. Odd how that kind of idea can fade real fast in the presence of gun shot residue!
4Nothing like a good pistol to announce “dinner is served.”
daChipster! ROFL You da man!!
5OOh EEE! Dinner out has a whole different meaning in Texas.
6Um, beat on the wait person if they get the order wrong…
Then what do we get to do to thieving car salesmen?
7Just good ole boys havin some good clean fun. You know what we call that here in Texas? Wednesday.
8When I first read the story, I thought the waiter brought one of their toy guns. Was it a real one?
9That’s some world-class Texas-politician-stupid there.
Which of ’em will be running for office?
Just wonderin’
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I think it’s time to revamp that old saying, and go with
Guns cause crime the way shit causes flies.
10And what about a followup story JJ? It’s Texas, so I’m assuming the Red Barn Steakhouse was packed (and packing) the next day, full of “Good Customers With A Gun” ready to take part in their God given American civic duty, should the need arise.
11Que lastima!
Did The Little Red Barn still have a red-faced orange man on Fox blaring at dinner?
That there is the problem. The waiter couldn’t hear. And the customer is dumb.
12Larry from Colorado: “Was it a real one?”,
Well of course, there was cellphone video on the news, perfect ‘shot’ of the waiter-gunman firing off several rounds (one or more into the ceiling), with sound too- blam-blam-blam; people running every which way. Looked like he was using a big ol’ hog-leg revolver to me. Just another day in the city.
The waiter and hostile customers are still on the loose. Surprised me, those idiots got real lucky because a lot of LEO’s used to eat there regularly (there was/is a DPS station nearby too).
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LRB is a very old San Antonio eatery on Hackberry St. and 87(?), just SE of the I-37, I-10 interchange, about a mile south of the Alamodumb.
Used to eat there sometimes (years ago), the ex and kids liked it, IMO the steaks weren’t all that great (a bit tough, they’ll be tenderizing them with gun butts now, eh?), dang good chicken fried though. When I happened to be working nearby and went to the post office a couple blocks down, I sometimes went in (there wasn’t much in the way of restaurants in that area then).
Some SA car dealer gives free LRB meals away as a deal enticement, probably going to change that now…he’ll have to add in a Glock or something.
13Well, please remind me to check which eateries in Texas require loaded weapons with each reservation.
14Oh daChipster! That was the best comment. You win today!
15Sounds like the steakhouse scene from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, after Liberty trips the Pilgrim:
That was my steak, Liberty. Pick it up…
You lookin’ for trouble, Doniphon?
You aim to help me find some?
Except Rance Stoddard wasn’t there to intervene and chew (yeah I know) the aging gunmen out, instead the waiter STARTS the shootin’. Glad we’ve civilized the West…YEE-HAW!
16“An armed society is a polite society” is a line out of science fiction – R.A. Heinlein. I like him a lot, but still, that statement has no basis in reality – which, y’know, think about it? Yemen? Columbia? Any of the neighborhoods where the indigenes all know the 10-code for “shots fired” – ?
17The more guns, the less polite.