I was at Tim Horton’s a few backs getting some coffee, and ahead in the line there was this old man who ordered something. The staff said he could sit down, and that they would bring it to him. So he did that. Eventually I get my coffee, and notice that on the counter, a tray with a coffee mug and a muffin was just hanging around. Nobody was paying attention to it, and I was wondering if it belonged to that old man. I’m about to leave and I see him at a table, without his food. So I went to ask him if he ordered coffee and a muffin, and he said yeah. I guess they forgot to bring it to him. I told him it was sitting on the counter, and asked if he wanted me to bring it to him. I didn’t wanna be patronizing, it’s not because someone’s old that they can’t do anything for themselves. But he said yes, and was happy that I brought it to him, and confessed that he might have waited there a long time, otherwise.
Of course, I would have felt like an ass if that was actually someone else’s food, but it was his. waitress instinct kicking in, rather than being nice XD