"You're not wrong Walter..."
Tonight was my group's second trip to Lebowski's for trivia and we had sort of a... weird night. I can't really be angry. The buffalo wings were excellent. The staff was friendly. But man... Trivia starts at 8, we get there at 7:45. There were several groups milling around and the hostess looked a little frazzled. She took our name, maybe a few groups ahead of us. As we're waiting more and more people are showing up and being seated from a reservation book. Did you know Lebowski's took reservations? I wouldn't even think about it but I can accept that trivia is popular. One of the reasons I was interested in the place is my brother has been to trivia dozens of times - never heard of the reservation book.
Well we waited, and waited. We were offered a table outside but my friends turned it down. The thing that irritated me, and I'm sure this is something you fixate on when you're waiting to be seated but - For nearly an hour a group sat with their check on their table. As near as I could tell, and I was staring them down like a complete weirdo, no staff came by to hurry them along. They weren't playing trivia and it was a packed house. We were standing up playing. We finally snagged a table, not the one I was obsessing over. Those folks stayed over an hour after having finished.
We decided to go ahead and leave after eating. We missed getting our question sheet for the second round amidst the hubbub of getting seated.
So a lot of this isn't Lebowski's fault but I really felt like whoever is behind restaurant karma wasn't on our side tonight. If I was with someone lingering that bad at the table I'd just leave them there.