My wife's brother was in Kroonstad for a few days. He flew to Johannesburg from Cape Town on Thursday (14 July), and hired a car to drive to Kroonstad, for a meeting. We didn't get to see him before he left O.R. Tambo. This morning, he had to fly out at 09:25. This meant he had to go through the boarding gates at 08:55.
So that my wife could see him, we made arrangements to meet at the Wimpy at the airport. We sat down at around 07:30, thinking we'd have plenty of time to have a quick meal and a catch-up. The three of us each had a cup of coffee, breakfast, and a cold drink, and we were there for just over an hour!
I didn't catch the waitress' name, but honestly, this woman has got to be about the slowest server on the face of the earth! We ordered coffees as we sat down, and got them 15 minutes later. We had been done with our coffees for at least another five minutes before she took our breakfast order... Which could have easily taken 20 minutes to arrive! It was just fried eggs, bacon and toast, for Pete's sake! It took another 20 minutes before she arrived to clear our plates, and then easily half an hour to return with our drinks orders. When we had finished our drinks, she was nowhere to be seen, and my wife had to get up and call her loudly to come and bring us our bill.
We left Wimpy at around 08:35.
Surely restaurants situated in airports are used to serving people who want a quick bite to eat before catching their flights? They don't have time to sit and chat.
Well, you'd think so, wouldn't you?
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