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". I have seen Tard meltdowns because their carrots weren't "round", their ice cream was served with 3 scoops instead of two, and their hamburger wasn't square"and you didn't VIDEOTAPE it for future hilarity?
larious
"my mother's dog does. She loves getting table scraps, and she will gladly not touch her kibbles for 2 or 3 days in hopes of getting a bite of human food. Dumb as she is"
sounds like my moms dog... except he's so dumb he'll eat ANYTHING, including things that arent food. like PLASTIC and ROCKS.
Sammy-The Man Tard StoryI had several "special needs" adult customers who were regulars at a famblee restaurant I managed many years ago who, for some unknown reasons although I have my suspicions why, really had an attachment to me. The main one I witnessed having meltdowns the most frequently,"Sammy", was the worst of the bunch when it came to melt downs. His father was a charming, elderly, disabled man who was at one time a mayor of an Illinois city and had retired in my Southern town many years prior. In addition to being a late in life kid and an only child, Sammy(age 32), had been diagnosed with several mental illnesses as well as was, "on the spectrum", although he was high functioning. He was also BIG, very large, and strong. Sammy was the epitome of a man sized tard with the emotional maturity of about an 11 year old.
He was prone to violent outbursts too and I was suspicious he had harmed his father behind closed doors, although the old man denied it when I asked him, because he often had bruises and other scrapes and cuts. One time the old man said to me, "Kim you have NO IDEA what it feels like to have sired an idiot! It's a CURSE!!!". Sammy was a major mama's boy and according to his father had gotten a LOT WORSE after his mother died. Anyway, Sammy became attached to ME and for about 5 years he REFUSED to go out and eat anywhere else and would have meltdowns and outbursts when I wasn't on duty the day he came in. I had to give the old man my schedule each week to avoid having that happen. They came in EVERY SINGLE DAY, sometimes twice, while I was working and as long as I had the time to deal with them, Sammy would be "okay". God HELP everyone present if I was too busy to insure Sammy was placated. Below are among some of the things Sammy did in that five year period that include the following:
SammyOne night Sammy purposely piddled around and wouldn't finish his food and although they were there for over two hours, he managed to not leave and we had closed. I was upstairs in a loft office balancing cash drawers when Sammy decided he wanted ice cream. I heard him tell the waitress and knew in advance there would be trouble because the already hateful server he had was pissed he was keeping her there late and from finishing her closing duties AND because I knew we were out of vanilla ice cream on the server line. Sammy HAD TO HAVE vanilla and it HAD TO BE two scoops,
always, or there would be a melt down. I knew we had some vanilla in the big freezer and I had already told the server, Pat, I would go and get it.
She was pissed though and said, "The fat fucker can eat chocolate", and then she served it to him AND it was only one scoop. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
TWO SCOOPS! I WANT MY TWO SCOOPS! IT CAN NOT BE CHOCOLATE PAT! IT
HAS TO BE WHITE ICE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU
KNOW THAT PAT!!!!", is how the meltdown started. He was loud, howling, and agitated, and somewhere during the time it took me to go and get the vanilla, Pat was egging him on. I finally got the fucking ice cream, dumped the TWO SCOOPS into the correct bowl, as he would not eat from any bowl unless it was a certain size and clear, no "brown bowls!", and gave it to Pat and begged her, "
Palease go give him his ice cream, PLEASE!" Well, she slung it against the wall on his booth table, spilling the scoops all over the table, and yelled out, "There's your fucking ice cream Sammy, now STFU!".
By this point, he was crying and doing that sucking snot thing like a toddler. Lips quivering, he gathers up his two scoops of "white" ice cream from the table top and starts eerily whispering over and over, as he's rocking back and forth, "Two scoops! It
HAS to be white and
TWO scoops! NO BROWN BOWLS! Pat
KNOWS this....."over and over and over and over, it was SO fucking pathetic and I felt sorry for the old man who just sat there with tears in his eyes and incapable of doing anything................................. He would do the same thing with certain vegetables, like carrots having to be round and not "...straight or broken", hot dogs HAD to be cut in half, NO YELLOW FOOD, no drinks with fizz, ALWAYS had to have a straw or there was a scene, no gravy on top of the meat or, "IT'S POO POO, IT'S
COVERED IN POOOO POOOOOO!!!!!" would ensue, and if I wasn't in his line of vision he'd start lurking around the restaurant bellowing, like a child, "KIM! I
KNOW YOU ARE HERE! COME OUT, COME OUT, W
HEREVER YOU ARE!":crz
Occasionally he would be medicated and was
almost normal! When he wasn't flapping about and having outbursts, he exhibited some pretty amazing skills, much like Rain Man. He had an extraordinary memory, but the mentality of a child and his "good days" were few and far between. His father died and an uncle who had power of attorney and was executor of his decent sized estate finally did what the old man could never do and that was to put Sammy in an institution. He
absolutely was a danger to himself and others, without a doubt, and I remain unconvinced he didn't contribute to his father's death. I hadn't seen them in a week and called the police to do a welfare check and the old man was unconscious in the bath tub. Not long after they ruled his death as a stroke that allegedly caused him to fall in the tub and sustain a brain injury which eventually contributed to his death a few weeks later.
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If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!