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Common Sense Lesson #138
This lesson is quite simple - when you’re going to be a repeat offender, don’t take “repeat” quite so literally. If the “gin and tonic bandit” had followed this lesson, he might still be banditing today, instead of sitting in the clink.
The unnamed man was arrested last week for theft and resisting law enforcement after he got busted for pulling the hold high school dine-and-dash. And the reason our good friend was busted was because he was doing this to the same restaurant, with the same dinner order, on the same day of the week, for a month. The dude had been going into the O’Charley’s restaurant on Wednesday nights, where he would order a rib-eye steak and two drinks. Each time, when he got his check for $29.96, he would excuse himself to the bathroom, and then hightail it out of the restaurant.
After doing this for four weeks straight, the restaurant was finally ready for him during his fifth meal. When his waitress gave him the bill, he pulled out the old “gotta’ go take a leak” line. But when he left the restaurant, he found four employees waiting for him. They confronted him and he offered to pay by check. When the manager explained that O’Charley’s doesn’t take checks, the dude fled. A cop found him as he was trying to get into his car and they tussled before the man was finally arrested (which is where that resisting charge comes from).
One wonders whether the underlying lesson here is not to eat at O’Charley’s – if it took their wait-staff until the fifth time to figure out what this dude was doing, can the service be all that great?
