Rose-tinted glasses?

[mrph]

Sometimes I wonder if I've got a skewed view of the world (other times I'm quite sure that I have... :).

Over the weekend...

• I failed to get served at a busy bar in Bristol (we gave up and went elsewhere after a couple of minutes) - I viewed it as one of those things that happens when you've got three barstaff and twenty jostling customers, the alternate opinion is that "our custom wasn't wanted"
• We went for a meal at a rather nice restaurant, and the waiter said something along the lines of "you don't want starters, then?". I took the question at face value, the alternate opinion is that we were being 'tutted at'.
• Another meal, another restaurant. We were served - and empty plates were taken away - very swiftly. I thought this was a good thing. The alternate opinion was that they were trying to get rid of us as swiftly as possible.

So am I really a hopelessly deluded optimist? I don't know. I don't think so, though...

Comments

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Pretty much my view on things. The only case where the 'rudeness' impacted the evening was the pub. Maybe they were going to serve me eventually, maybe they weren't (I'm sure it would've become clear if I'd chosen to wait) - if I was being deluded then I might have had a very long wait...

Then again, given how busy they were, that might have been the case even if I wasn't deluded. :)