The other day I was walking around Vancouver, and I was super hungry but I didn’t know where to go. I refuse to eat fast food, and didn’t know where a cheap semi-healthy option was available.
So as I’m walking around thinking about where to eat, I pass an outdoor patio to some restaurant and at the far end of the patio is this couple, just about finished their meal. I can’t say what possessed me, but after first walking past them, I turned around, tapped the guy on the shoulder and asked him if I could have a bite of his burger.
In the back of my mind was this voice telling me about how rude I was, and how I should bail, blah blah blah. But I was in the middle of the moment, and I was just going with it.
So the guy stares at me saying nothing, while the woman laughs out loud. He wipes his mouth with his napkin and very calmly asks me, “you fucking serious?”. I smiled, and replied with something like, “well you seemed to be enjoying it, and I’ve never ate here before so I wanted to know what the food is like”.
So he looks over at his gf or wife or whoever she is, who’s still laughing, and shrugs and hands me his burger. I have to tell you, it was a pretty good damn burger. But then he goes on to tell me that it was like 20 bucks and that ended that.
After chatting to them for a little while, I headed on my way. It seems to me that when you’re open and honest people respond well. I wasn’t trying to be anybody; I just legitimately wanted to know what his burger tasted like. And he could recognize that and responded accordingly.
Either that or I was extremely lucky he didn’t spit in my face.
$20 for a burger is pretty normal, if it's a proper restaurant burger.
That's a pretty random thing to do, and I would have definitely said no and told you honestly that I think it's weird as fuck, and you should either get your own or get lost.
On September 30 2012 17:08 Gatsbi wrote: Best burger I ever had in my life was at Minetta Tavern in Manhattan. Black Label Burger, 26 bucks.
On September 30 2012 14:52 Fumanchu wrote: The other day I was walking around Vancouver, and I was super hungry but I didn’t know where to go. I refuse to eat fast food, and didn’t know where a cheap semi-healthy option was available.
So as I’m walking around thinking about where to eat, I pass an outdoor patio to some restaurant and at the far end of the patio is this couple, just about finished their meal. I can’t say what possessed me, but after first walking past them, I turned around, tapped the guy on the shoulder and asked him if I could have a bite of his burger.
In the back of my mind was this voice telling me about how rude I was, and how I should bail, blah blah blah. But I was in the middle of the moment, and I was just going with it.
So the guy stares at me saying nothing, while the woman laughs out loud. He wipes his mouth with his napkin and very calmly asks me, “you fucking serious?”. I smiled, and replied with something like, “well you seemed to be enjoying it, and I’ve never ate here before so I wanted to know what the food is like”.
So he looks over at his gf or wife or whoever she is, who’s still laughing, and shrugs and hands me his burger. I have to tell you, it was a pretty good damn burger. But then he goes on to tell me that it was like 20 bucks and that ended that.
After chatting to them for a little while, I headed on my way. It seems to me that when you’re open and honest people respond well. I wasn’t trying to be anybody; I just legitimately wanted to know what his burger tasted like. And he could recognize that and responded accordingly.
Either that or I was extremely lucky he didn’t spit in my face.
so funny had to read it to my gf.
but i think you only got away with this because you live in Canada
I like this story but if you want to convince me its not luck you have to do it again. If i was the guy with the burger.. well it all depends on my mood. I have no problem saying no to you and I have no problem saying yes. You have to convince me you deserve it and that you're hygiene is not going to get me sick
I think it really helped that the woman was there and was finding the situation funny. If she was offended then things would have turned out differently.
lol that was definitely a dick move on your part (whether or not you realize it) to interrupt his date and eat his food, but I'm not 100% surprised that he went with the flow and gave you a bite. I guess since you probably didn't appear like a random homeless guy or act mean (just naive/ innocent), it wasn't the absolute worst way you could have presented yourself.
EPT
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