Some of the most annoying things you can put your server through...

Please don't snap your fingers.

Why ask for a cup of hot water to soak your silverware? Hot water isn't sanitizing.

I hate that squiggly sign in the air thing indicating that you want the check.

Don't ask for something, and when your server comes back, ask for another of the same thing, and on and on....make it easy, ask for everything at once, but make sure it's your server you ask. Asking other servers only makes it more difficult for them to take care of their tables.

Please, please, please, don't ask for the soup of the day 10 minutes before last call. The soup is nasty at the end of the night. I'm only saving you the indigestion.

This also goes for salads. We close the salad area up and then have to run around like a chicken with no head at last call trying to find things like tomatoes and cucumbers.

Don't ask us to have the bartender "hook up" your drink. Everything is measured and is very textbook according to prep. If you want your drink "hooked up," go to a real bar, not a family restaurant.

Don't call us "waitress/waiter" or "server." We tell you our name for a reason. If I run something to another servers table and the guest asks me for something, I usually ask them what their servers name is to see if they were paying attention. This helps me to decide whether getting them a side of blue cheese that they aren't even going to touch is worth crashing over or not.

Don't write all over the check how horrible I was while I had 8 tables and then call up my managers to complain. You've already made my night terrible by writing me a bad note because I couldn't get you all of the sides that you didn't need or touch quick enough.

If I am a good server, thank me in your tip. Don't tell me how great I am and then leave me 4 on 80. I tip out a percent of my sales. Like you, I need to eat and pay my bills too.

Please don't leave me your phone number either, especially after a 5% tip.

If you're not going to tip me on a high check, make sure you never show your face again. If I see you again, I am going to hold the door for you while you exit the restaurant on your next visit, and I will call you out on it without violating company policy. (Yes I have done this before)

Don't tell me everything is okay and then sing a sad song to my manager for free food. Not only are you making yourself a laughing stock of the waitstaff, but you're also cutting into my comp cost for the night, and also cutting my potential tip in half.

Don't order alcohol and think that I'm not going to ID you because I will.

If you order a soda, there is no reason why you should need a water with it. There's also no reason why a party of 4 needs 4 waters and 4 soft drinks. If I drank 64 ounces of liquid in less than an hour I'd be peeing like a racehorse.

Hot tea......need I say more?