To ask what is the rudest thing a friend or relative has ever done at a meal out?

[BallsforEarings]

When out at a meal with a bunch of friends, my ex-friend (never popular -known for rudeness!) once asked if she could taste my chilli con carne, I said 'of course' and she proceeded to take a huge forkful and then pronounce loudly 'UGGHHH!! That is SHIT'.

I was left to 'enjoy' the rest of my chilli after that!

Anyone got/had a friend/relative with worse manners?

Good GRIEF!!!

I have a few of these at my cousins wedding which was in the States so involved several meals (all paid for by cousin and her dh) i.e. the rehearsal dinner, then the main thing then there was a day after meal in another hotel.
The first night we were all together a bunch of cousins family and friends went out for dinner in a beer, burger, Frankie and Bennies type place so not super expensive my uncle ordered full 3 courses and drinks. Bill arrived and it was agreed to split (honestly most people had had 1 course and a drink!)
I ended up with the bill so my cousin didn't get it and divided by the number of people excluding cousin and fiancee (thought we could all treat them since they were feeding us all for the next 3 days) there were loads of people so it was only a few dollars extra for everyone.
At which point my uncle (who was with Aunt) declared he had not bought any money or card with him. Totally unbelievable IMHO overseas, in a different city, with no hire car, going out for a restaurant meal no way would he have gone out with no money. So cousin said don't worry we will pay.

Last day there him and cousins brother were having breakfast next to each other waiter came to ask room number for bill, so my uncle waived to cousins brother (who said well I don't know about him but I am in xxx-presumably uncle thought cousins brother could pay for their 3 breakfast too). We then went to another hotel for lunch (paid for by cousin) sure enough Uncle again is the only one there who has 3 courses.

He was notorious for never buying a drink when we were kids too, standing joke in my family. He collars my mother every year (who is pretty poor and he knows it) to reel off a long list of gifts he would like for Christmas.

He has inherited several properties, travels overseas several times a year annual cruise on top etc so can easily afford to pay for his own burger.

My Aunt used to send me 5 pounds to be split between my children every Christmas, one year I had a new baby who was very ill and was at the beginning of a many month admission to hospital in another town (Aunt knew this and knew it would be months long) I failed to send a thank you (I was a bit busy!) so Aunt loudly declares for years after to anyone who will listen that since I didn't send a thank you she will not be sending any more gifts.

(that is 'Good Grief' at little's tripping post) sorry should have said, was in shock!

I would love someone to try and put their dirty plates on my table as I'm eating, I would so love it, weeonion, if you lived near me, I'd pay for your dinner if I could be sat behind them. He'd never do it again!!!

We are full of them in my family, brothers in laws are a piece of work (?2 pieces) he is pretty much NC because of their behaviour again wedding related FIL will never buy a drink or a round, always offers once people are leaving have left and no one wants anything.
So my parents asked who they wished to invite to the wedding and were presented with a list of about 80 people (wedding was supposed to be about 60 in total!!) thing is we knew they had virtually seen none of these people for the last 35 years since they had emigrated to Australia when his fiancee was 2.

They subsequently offered 100 quid to my brother to 'pay' for the wedding I am delighted to say he refused thereby taking away their chance to say they had paid for it. Anyway more bad behaviour which should have rung warning bells for brother. His MIL's sister said she couldn't make it then turned up and upset my Mothers seating plan (things were tense by then)

Should probably add his MIL and her sister are also no longer speaking!!

Some old friends of my husband came to stay & we went out for a meal the first night. I'd never met them properly before but knew he was a fairly evangelical Christian. After we'd ordered, he fixed me with a beady eye across the table & said 'do you like puppies?' 'Of course,' I said. 'Well,' he said, 'imagine I've got a tiny puppy & I snip its legs & head off & throw it in the bin, is that right?' Turns out this was a sick reference to abortion. My husband & I were just . Needless to say, the rest of the visit did not go well.

Having worked as a waitress for several years I can tell you that people using tips to pay for their part of the meal is so common that I barely noticed by the end.

My favourite example of this was a bloke who would regularly come for large family dinners, he would act mine host, treat the servers like shit, order big expensive dinners, expensive wine etc and then invariably would take the cash that everyone else had put in and pay the exact amount at the bar so he would get his dinner for nothing. This particular time he had managed to over pay by 20p which my colleague put on the change dish with the receipt. She said "You forgot your change" and he airly waved it away with "Oh thats for you love!".

She carefully removed the 20p and put it down in front of him, said "No thank you" and walked away, then as she got to the other end of the table said "Oh, I forgot, here is your receipt" and handed it to the person nearest to her.

The shit storm that erupted was stunning to behold :o

The family made him pay not only the tip for that day but a significant amount on top to make up for all the other tips he had stolen from us. The next time they came in he wasnt with them!

Another memorable occasion was when a woman bought her clearly very poorly 13 yr old (ish) DD into the restaurant for a meal the night before a wedding they were attending. The DD threw up everywhere, the mother demanded we clean it up and then proceeded to try an order her meal as if nothing had happened. I said that we could bring the meal to their room, and she kicked off saying she wanted to eat in the restaurant and that her DD was "fine", she really wasnt. In the end the manager had to insist they leave. Her poor DD was not only clearly very ill but mortified by her mothers behaviour. AFAIK they didnt make it to the wedding, I hope it was because the mother caught the bug and shit herself!

Invited with 2 other couples to go to a casino by 4th couple who were notorious for inviting people around for a meal and just serving a few canapes. So we all ate before going as there had been no mention of eating together. We all arrived to be told that we were just going for a quick drink first with some of their work colleagues.

Turned out that one of the work people was celebrating a birthday and that we had all been booked into a restaurant before going en masse to the casino. We were put at the opposite end of the table to our hosts and the birthday boy. There were about 20 people we had never met. We tried to point out that we had already eaten but friend came down and asked us to just have something. As we didn't want to embarrass our hosts we just had a starter each. Come the end of the long meal the decision was taken by someone to split the bill equally and cover the birthday boy's meal. This blew all our spending money for the casino. So we were then hustled into the casino where our hosts got shirty with us for just watching when they'd gone to the trouble of organising the trip. That was it for us and we left only to get moaned at for not staying over with them and going out to a cafe for breakfast which they had been planning apparently.

Some of these are absolutely horrendous and I really wish I hadn't read this thread. Off for a family meal this afternoon, 21 of us with the louder side of the family too! Most absolutely lovely but one cousin (yes the weathiest of us all) is notoriously tight and I know his sisters will cow tow to his plans.

FIL again - we went out with a big group for another family birthday to am italian restaurant. He announced he was having chilli con carne 'cos that's the only italian food I know'. He was VERY annoyed when we told him it's not an Italian dish and not on the menu and started getting stroppy about his wife picking a shit restaurant that didn't do proper italian food .

He ordered spaghetti bolognese instead (turns out he'd heard of that but thought it was Spanish). When it came he couldn't eat it by the 'twirly fork & spoon' method - nowt wrong with that, really - but he got a waiter to cut it up into shorter bits for him, then ended up with it all round his face like a toddler. He didn't wipe his face between mouthfuls (he has form for this though).

I only have experience of shit customers, not shit relatives.
When I worked in a chain Italian restaurant (rhymes with Mask) a woman customer screamed she had found and bitten a big beetle in her mouth from her salad and demanded their entire visit be free. The whole thing was patently ridiculous- she had clearly put the beetle in the bowl herself, it was farcical. (Said restaurant used to soak their salad leaves in huge vats of diluted Milton anyway, so a big black beetle is unlikely to have passed unnoticed!)
Second incident was at a chain pub (rhymes with Moose). Kitchen was very behind with orders and customers were being told at point of ordering that there would be a half hour wait. One woman was kicking up a fuss from ten minutes after ordering "we've been waiting half an hour now!" "Madam your order has a time stamp on it "
When her food came (after half an hour) I politely asked whether they still wanted to eat it at the table or if they would like it wrapped to go (she had been complaining they would have to leave if it didn't come NOW, and it was toasted baguettes). You'd think I had offered to take a shit in it. I was screeched at and called "MISSY" and told I was RUDE etc. "You can just put it down RIGHT NOW!" Generally made me (27, married, pregnant) feel like a squalid piece of crap.
I quit the following week because my usually robust no-nonsense boss just rolled over and apologised to her, the fucking bitch.
Quite pleased I have no grabby/nutty/cunty relatives!

I went to a restaurant with my dad when I was about 16 .. the food was lovely but the waiter was so rude to us. Anyway my lovely dad still left a tip in the dish on the table and went off to the loo. I didn't think the waiter deserved a penny so whilst maintaining eye contact with the waiter removed all but 2p of the tip. Obviously I was being a horror but the eye rolling waiter made me see red!

My Mum used to go out for meals with a couple where the man, if he didnt like something would either just pour it onto his wifes plate or push it onto the table. He also used to pinch the tip

Oh God. I've just remembered a date I had with a guy who actually lifted his plate up and licked it at the end of the main course!

I obviously have no shame these days, I think it's because I'm developing into a Grumpy Old Woman. Nobody splits the bill evenly if they've been dining on fillet steak and I've had a burger. Someone says "Oh, we'll just split the bill between us". Me "Oh let's not, your meal cost a lot more than mine. Mine cost £xx - here's the cash".
Note - always take cash.

MIL thinks nothing of belching loudly before, during and after her meal - not even a word of apology or attempt to cover her mouth. Foul!!

My mum's boss used to take his department for lunch. When the bill arrived he used to collect cash from them for the bill plus a tip and then pay on his card. All seemed fine until after he left the firm when they found out (from the restaurant staff) that he used to pay just the bill with no tip which meant he got a free meal out of his department. Didn't come as a major surprise for the team as he was known for his tightness and creative expenses claims.

My mum has started doing this weird noise she swears is a burp. She sounds like Lord Melchett doing an impression of a cow. Sort of murrrr-urrrrrrrpah.

I went out to meet my new boyf (now Dh) friend and his fairly new girlf. She asked how big my Dh cock was and was it in proportion to his height! We'd only been out about an hour.

My SIL and her bloody awful husband were visiting with their PFB. We decided to go to a local cafe and my husband, children and I all ordered a drink each (it was mid-morning). My DN grizzled for a nano-second and SIL and her husband declared she was hungry and ordered a pile of food for her. The husband then decided he was also hungry and ordered more food for himself. A few minutes after ordering, DN did a small yawn, whereupon both of her parents threw back their chairs, shrieked that she was in fact tired and they must leave IMMEDIATELY so that she could have a nap. We were left to pay for all their food and drink which none of us had ordered or, indeed, wanted.

For the waiting staff on this thread... I had no idea about the plate-stacking. My husband does this. I vaguely knew that the customer shouldn't do it but not why - thank you for the explanation, I will stop the plate-stacking at source in future!

Bogeyface... a question for you - loved that the man got his comeuppance but how could the receipt holder discern how much was paid over and above what was the total for the meals? I mean the tip - what if it was just handed over separately? Tip-stealers need to be shamed, that's a definite. Is this man banned from coming out with everybody now, do you know? Or is he just too tight now that his free-loeading methods have been discovered?

It was exH first Christmas 'do' and he was really nervous. He was the youngest on the team, so had to put up with quite a bit of banter bullying . He drank glass after glass of red wine just to copy the boss. After about two hours of solid drinking and very little food, he put his head down and vomited red wine all over my white outfit.

Organised a hen do lunch and told everyone we would split the bride's meal between us and pay for our own. I added that this was because it was a fish restaurant, so we wouldn't split the entire bill as the veggie could only order salad and chips and it wasn't fair. The bride had said she'd pay for the booze, bless her.

Anyway, I'd made it clear several times. Come the meal, one hen orders three courses. The bill arrives and she is indignant that she should pay for what she ate, even though I had been clear and she had eaten more than anyone else.

I set her straight. The cow.

One girl at uni was consistently vile at meals, always underpaid and was extremely greedy. She'd have one cheap main but would grab food off of everyone else's plates, swig drinks, inhale her own food and dive right in for seconds. It made eating out so stressful and I just refused to eat out if she was in the group too.

Another ex friend came out for a birthday meal of another friend. Ex friend was notoriously tight and a bit skanky. She put one of her own hairs on her plate so that she could demand the cost was taken off of her meal.