Diner gets charged $8 for cup of water by insistent waitress: 'If the waitress doesn't remove it... she will get the manager involved'

This diner has a few bones to pick with the local restaurant scene, which has been rather ridiculous for their past few meals out. 

Eating at restaurants with your friends or family members is a great part of life. You really do have some of the best conversations while you're sitting around waiting for your food to arrive. Since you don't have to cook, you get to have plenty of time to chat about your day or make plans for the future. 

But obviously, you and I both live in current day, and it's expensive out here, so going out to eat is a treat for a lot of people. It's not something they do every day, or even every week, so when people do get the chance to eat at a restaurant, they hope that their experience is really great. 

For this person, though, dining has recently brought a few challenges along with it, as you can read all about below. They're not impressed with the level of customer service they've been getting, which seems to be an ongoing problem. There are lots of people looking for work, yet a lot of businesses also seem chronically understaffed. And that means when you go out to eat, you're facing long wait times to be sat, grumpy waitstaff who have been berated by customers all day, and food that you just know used to taste a lot better before restaurants started cutting corners and slimming down their portion sizes. It's not all bad, but… it could certainly use some improvement. 

This person shared their strange experiences recently, and commenters commiserated with them. Check out both stories down below… and weigh in about the whole tea debacle. Was it weird for this waitress to try and charge someone $8 for drinking "tea without the tea?" Maybe she didn't get any sleep before her shift or something, because it's one of the silliest things I've ever heard. Maybe she should try charging them a few pennies for the electricity needed to heat the water, instead of just arguing about whether or not hot water constitutes tea.