Servant, Server, same thing right?

"Thanks, you're a great servant" says some middle-aged man who must not have been let out of the house in years. 

"Pardon me?" I ask.

"You're a great servant.  Very prompt."

"Uh, thank you. I think you meant to say Server."

"Oh, yeah you know what I meant right?"

Yeah sure, I know you think it is the same thing.  Servant, Server, Slave... Whatever.  You're wife probably waits on you hand and foot at home.  Anything else I can bring you master? Idiot.

People, be precise with your words.  Something that has been lost in today's society is the importance placed on being precise with one's words.  Oi Vey.

"What Time Do You Close?"

Look. If you walk into a restaurant five minutes before close, don't apologize. When you apologize, over and over, you become an asshole.  Don't make me tell you that it is fine that you are going to make me stay at work for another hour.  If the restaurant's doors are open the restaurant is open.   If you care that we are closing in five minutes, then by all means ask what time we are closing, and then leave.  If you ask and I say, "we're open until ten", and it's 9:55 and then you sit down anyway, why did you ask?! ASSHOLE!