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| - My review is not about the food, atmosphere, price, etc - it is about the service, and specifically the service and comment from one particular server/bartender.
I have stopped in here a few times for a margarita/chips etc. Nothing memorable - hey, it's Mexican Food...it's all pretty good and pretty much the same.
What happened a few weeks ago is the reason for my review. I'm sitting at the bar one afternoon as the bartender (don't know her name - blonde, I'd say in her late 20's early 30's) is giving me very average service. No big deal, I'm not really paying much attention. At the same time she is chatting it up with someone else - another server or customer, I don't really know. Then, when chatting it up, she says something to the effect - "yea, I thought that was so 'retarded'". As if to say something was really whacky or messed up...I guess...but for some reason she used the word 'retarded' to communicate whatever she was trying to say.
Now...I know some of you reading this review may think I'm being some kind of word police, but 'retarded' is simply not a word to use in any way, and particularly the way she was using it, and especially particularly not when you are serving strangers in a very public setting.
She probably just doesn't understand the hurt this word causes to people who are friends or family of people who were born with a mental disability. If so, she might better understand that when the word 'retarded' is used to describe something or someone as stupid, messed up, insane, whacky...whatever, none of these things relate to someone who has been born with a mental disability. They are not stupid, they were born with a disability. They are not messed up, they were born with a disability. They are not whacky, they were born with a disability. They are not insane, they were born with a disability.
'Retarded' is simply not a word to ever be used, by anyone. Period.
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