She ruined my meal

[Gob]

Holly Jones wasn't happy. Having spent $US700 ($970) for a New Year's Eve night out, she expected first class treatment - not to have her meal "ruined" by the selfish act of another patron having a heart attack.

So she did as any irate customer with an internet connection would do, and posted a rant on the Indianapolis restaurant's Facebook page.


"I will never go back to this location for New Year's Eve!!!" Ms Jones vowed. "After the way we were treated when we spent $700+ and having our meal ruined by watching a dead person being wheeled out from an overdose my night has been ruined!"



The rant - variously described as cruel, heartless and any number of other pejoratives - has since gone viral around the world. Unfortunately for Ms Jones, the staff and customers of Kilroy's Bar 'N' Grill - and pretty much the entire internet - had very little sympathy for her distress.

Ms Jones went on to write that although she had come to Kilroy's many times before, she was unimpressed by the staff prioritising the dying person ahead of attending to her needs.
The Facebook rant that earned the ire of the world.



"The manager also told us someone dying was more important then [sic] us being there making us feel like our business didn't matter," she complained.

The incident was confirmed by the restaurant's manager, Chris Burton, who told reporters police had to be stationed near Ms Jones' table until her party settled the bill.

He replied to Ms Jones on Facebook, informing her that the person she assumed to be a "junkie" experiencing an overdose was in fact an older woman who had suffered a heart attack. The woman was taken to hospital and survived.

"This poor lady ... had to be placed on the floor of a completely packed bar and have her shirt removed in front of everyone so the paramedics could work on her," Mr Burton wrote.

"I'm glad to hear you won't be coming back to Kilroy's because we wouldn't want anyone as cold hearted and nasty as you returning. You can take your money anywhere else."

Ms Jones has deleted her Facebook account but her employer, a hair and beauty parlour called Serenity Salon, published a Facebook post distancing itself from her comments. The business would "deal with this matter internally and take whatever actions deemed necessary".

But the unhappy episode has a silver-lining. The global attention visited upon this humble midwestern US diner has allowed it to promote a GoFundMe campaign being run by Tohnna Wymer, the daughter of the woman who suffered the heart attack.

The campaign has raised more than $US11,000 in just one day, to cover subsequent medical bills and any necessary therapy sessions. "We fully believe in the power of prayer and know she will come back to us," Ms Wymer wrote.

Serenity Salon and Kilroy's both donated to the fund. The restaurant's Facebook page was inundated with people declaring they would patronise the venue soon, while the salon's page was filled with people promising to take their business elsewhere.


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[Bicycle Bill]

I just shake my head.... realizing that she is not alone in her self-centered, spoiled-child attitude and belief of her own importance — just look at Donald Trump.

And then to have the chutzpah to post this on Facebook?  I think I know what most of her "$700 meal" was spent on; I can only assume she was still hung over when she composed and posted that rant.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

oh, I think it is the establishment who has the spoiled child attitude...

....geez, you just can t get trump out of your head, can you?

oh well, you aren t alone.....

[BoSoxGal]

She's clearly missing the basic decency gene - and filter. She'll get the notariety she deserves for that rant.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Well, you know how notaries are .... always trying to upstage real lawyers

[Big RR]

oh, I think it is the establishment who has the spoiled child attitude...

How so?

[wesw]

everyone in the establishment is all up in arms about trump crashing their little private parties....

how dare the People support an outsider entering our govt. ? the sky is falling!!!!

anyone who lets trump into the party is an inbred racist stupid bigot

[wesw]

....and I m glad to see you back , RR!

[TPFKA@W]

I hate it when people keel over on a plane or in a restaurant while I'm eating. They always ask if there is a Doc or a nurse around and they expect me to put my fork down and give a sheet. The nerve.

[BoSoxGal]

Well, you know how notaries are .... always trying to upstage real lawyers

Hey, I have a cognitive disability - I'm excused from typo policing!

[rubato]

I'm not going to make the joke about how people are dying to go there.

And see, I didn't.



yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

"I won't have what she's having"

[wesw]

I don t know about you guys, but there is no way in hell that I would want, or be able, to finish my meal after someone had died in front of me and been carried out, dead as a doornail.

crap, I may not eat for a couple of days after that.

...and I would pay my bill....
....unless the restaurant food had killed them.

[TPFKA@W]

I don t know about you guys, but there is no way in hell that I would want, or be able, to finish my meal after someone had died in front of me and been carried out, dead as a doornail.

crap, I may not eat for a couple of days after that.

...and I would pay my bill....
....unless the restaurant food had killed them.

Oh gee what a wimp. Good thing you don't dine with nurses. We are apt to discuss the way a boil drained or the size and color of a particularly unusual bowel movement between courses.

[wesw]

yeah, i m good with blood and injuries, i ve even set a few bones.

but if the jar of mayo has been in the fridge for 2 weeks i m liable to throw it away...

and if meat has gone bad the smell immediately gives me the dry heaves. even the discoloration of rotting meat disgusts me.

evolution i guess.....

i m ok with diapers too, tho i don t exactly like the smell....

puke gives me the willies too....

[Crackpot]

What do you mean "between"? My wife used to turn on surgery shows during dinner time before I forbade it.

[Gob]

You have surgery shows?

[TPFKA@W]

What do you mean "between"? My wife used to turn on surgery shows during dinner time before I forbade it.

You'll toughen up.

puke gives me the willies too....

You just flunked nursing 101.

[TPFKA@W]

You have surgery shows?

I haven't seen them if there are.

[Crackpot]

There used to be on channels like discovery Health and other such basic cable stations