Customers being awful to servers isn't new, but Deaf TikToker luvr lo—@llosoncy—added a new spin when she posted a recent interaction she had with some hearing customers and their reaction to her lip-reading.
The customers—after being told she needs them to look up when they speak so she can read their lips—eventually used the pen and paper she offered to request a different server.
The customer's note read:
"Can we get a different server please?"
"I'm uncomfy with being lip-read, it's weird."
You can see luvr lo's video here:
Immediately, people were on the server's side and disapproved of the customers' actions.
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Other people commented with things they would have done in her stead or what they would do in their roles in restaurants.
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Several people noticed only after watchung the video that they look down when they order.
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Someone pointed out combining serving with being deaf would be very difficult.
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Over 1 billion people on Earth are hard of hearing, and over 70 million are deaf.
Some of them might be your restaurant server.
Be kind.
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