“Antigay Slurs Scrawled On Dinner Receipts” is officially a thing; an exciting new genre that has already commandeered an impressive number of hits in the “blogosphere,” a word we promise to never use again. So far, we’ve seen lesbian couples hassled by chefs, waiters learning they’ll burn in hell, and people totally lying about finding mean things written on their receipts. To name but a few.
Now Taylor Stewart, a waitress at the International House of Pancakes in Enid, Oklahoma, can add her story to this distinguished list.
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“I’m a people person and that’s why I have this job because I love people,” she tells WQAD-TV, candidly.
“You know, and I like to serve them and, you know, make them happy.”
But on Monday night, one extremely rude customer managed to sully her usually sunny disposition — leaving an antigay slur scrawled on his dinner receipt.
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While wrapping up a double shift, Stewart waited on a man and his three children, and screwed up one of the orders.
Though the mistake was quickly corrected and Taylor apologized, this customer continued being quite nasty to her, leaving a mess at the table (with the remnants of the meal, we mean), and storming out the door with his family once they were done eating.
Worst of all, instead of a tip for his family’s $36 meal, the man wrote “Gay is wrong!” on the receipt.
“I was just shocked,” Taylor says. “I was more shocked than hurt, but I mean it did hurt. If you don’t like it, If you don’t agree with it, that’s fine. That’s your own opinion, but I mean just let people be who they are and don’t say hurtful things.”
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Neither Stewart nor any of the other IHOP employees recognized the customer, and WQAD was unable to identity him based on the signature on his receipt.
And while we’re at it, here are two more examples of this Antigay Receipt business: In April, a lesbian waitress received Biblical verse instead of a tip. And back in 2014, a transgender customer dining with eight friends atWashington D.C.’s Bistro 16 received a receipt with the words “Gay bitches” scrawled on it. Oh, and then there’s this.
So, you see? Even though we’re starting to worry that every story along these lines is a hoax, it appears this receipt business really is a thing.
Watch the report below.
Xzamilio
Does it say “Gay is wrong” or “Grey is wrong”? In any case… I’m not making a judgment call, especially people’s affinity to embellish nowadays
money718
Sorry. Don’t believe it. Even if is true, it’s OKLAHOMA.
He BGB
If true, the man should be banned from the restaurant. Treating the staff with disrespect, mean spiritedness, no tip, a big mess, etc. 86 him forever. The waitress did nothing wrong but make a mistake on the order which happens. I looked up IHOP waitress and they make $2.15/hr.plus tips. Think about that when you go to IHOP.
MinnesotaNotNice
Oh please, when is this shit going to stop? How many of these incidents have turned out to be faked by the claimants? Just look at the recent Whole Foods cake incident or the case about 2-3 years back involving the lesbian waitress in a casual restaurant who doctored up a receipt that was debunked by the patron who kept their separate copy of it which showed no signs of any altering. Sadly, being a petty and vindictive asshole isn’t just limited to straight people.
onthemark
Where does a waitress with one leg work?
IHOP.
ha ha ha
joeyty
Uhhhh…….I think we’ve been here before…
DCguy
@MinnesotaNotNice: stated: Oh please, when is this shit going to stop? How many of these incidents have turned out to be faked by the claimants?
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Yes, and how many thousands haven’t been faked. Anybody else notice that the same people that always come in and support GOP politicians are the first ones to attack any suggestion that any lgbt person was harassed or discriminated against?
No wonder most of you lie and claim your party doesn’t hate lgbts, it wouldn’t seem that way to people who agree with them.
red1979
It’s most likely fake, or at least the receipt shown in the picture above is. It clearly says that a credit card was used to pay the bill yet remarkably no one is able to identify the customer?
TomOH
We should be more critical of blogs/news sites like this, who keep lazily perpetrating these “I was shamed on a receipt” stories without making the slightest bit of effort to confirm the legitimacy of the claims. There are clearly some LGBTQ people (who are doing a disservice to those who have legitimately been discriminated against) who are simply doing this for money and attention. They’re giving the real victims of these incidents a bad name at the expense of trying to make some quick money.
ErikO
@money718: I also don’t believe this. It looks fake.
Bob LaBlah
@TomOH: I thought along the same lines.
To all of you who seek careers as waitresses/waiters/airline stewards/airline stewardesses….if you can let it roll off of you then you are in the wrong career. Next to a school teacher those jobs are the most under appreciated positions in the entire global workforce.
ErikO
@Bob LaBlah: That’s very true. I have worked as a teacher and you can’t take any of it personally from either the students who want to insult you, or in a lot of cases their parents who want to insult you and all of their kid’s teachers.
ErikO
@TomOH: I’ve also worked in restaurants, and again if you take what customers do or say to you personally you should not work as a waiter/waitress/server/bartender, etc.
robho3
This story has been done over and over and it always takes place in the south- isn’t that shocking?
Roan
Sadly, all the stories like this that turned out to be fake, along with the youtube twink who just faked a gay bashing in WeHo, cast doubt on anyone who claims this happened to them.
Billysees
@red1979:
” It clearly says that a credit card was used to pay the bill yet remarkably no one is able to identify the customer? ”
Good question to ask.
GayEGO
I immediately thought this incident occurred in the South and Oklahoma fits the picture.
SpunkyBunks
Big deal. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. Not everyone is going to like you, its called being a grownup. These stories are irrelevant, they make gays look like whiney crybabies.
stranded
There’s really nothing anybody can do, so i’m not sure why gays want to post this up, except for maybe wanting attention as a victim. It happened, it sucked, why involve the world into it?
joeyty
@GayEGO: the last time we had a fake story just like this was in New Jersey, though.
Chris
New credit card readers remove the credit card number from the receipt. If memory serves, not even the vendor can track down the information. This security step was added to keep employees from stealing the numbers and using them illegally.
So yes, the customer cannot be identified from the credit card number because it is not available.
Having said that, mean people s**k. But you know what, if restaurants and other paid their employees a decent wage, we wouldn’t read about this stuff simply because tipping would be a thing of the past.
derek mcgillicuddy
The cheap Okie just didn’t want to leave a tip, so he demonstrated to his children how classy his state is. I can say this: my Dad is from Durant (and he dated Rue McClanahan who was from Ardmore).
joeyty
@derek mcgillicuddy: So you think this really happened ?
DCguy
@SpunkyBunks: stated: Big deal. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. Not everyone is going to like you, its called being a grownup. These stories are irrelevant, they make gays look like whiney crybabies.
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h look, another troll account comes in here, yelling at people to stop pointing out bigotry.
1. Since tipping is an accepted part of making an income as a waiter, this bigotry directly effected their job.
2. how about “Gays” will stop whining about bigotry, when “Religious bigots” stop crying that not allowing them to attack us is suppressing their religious freedom.
Deal?
MinnesotaNotNice
@DCguy: Hey, asswipe, where in your pathetic imagination do see me supporting GOP politicians and bashing LGBT people? What the hell does that even have to do with this lesbian and the very likely scenario that this whole story is fake? I’m gay and a very left leaning Liberal who has just read enough of these stories to where it can be discerned very easily when someone is lying about an alleged gay bashing incident so that they can milk their 15 minutes of fame and sympathy for the public at large. Maybe you shouldn’t jump to baseless conclusions about people who post their own responses that don’t jive with how you feel or with what you desperately want to be the truth, even when it’s so damn obvious that it’s a lie. Okay?