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Woman ‘Fixes’ Best Man’s Problem Of Being Served Potatoes, Simply Grabs Them Off His Plate
So, the solemn music sounded, the bride walked down the aisle, the priest asked all the necessary questions and received all the required answers. You exchanged rings, kissed to thunderous applause… what could go wrong now?
In fact, literally anything! We recently published a selection of the most incredible wedding stories, and here’s another one just told by the user u/Gullible-Nose9502 on the AITA Reddit community. It’s not that something out of the ordinary happened here in the way of memories that will remain with us for years and decades, but still a very funny tale anyway.
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The author of the post recently returned from Mexico, where her friend’s wedding took place
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After the wedding there was a party in a restaurant and the author sat next to the best man
Image credits: u/Gullible-Nose9502
It turned out that the guy hated potatoes and didn’t want them served to him, but he didn’t know Spanish to tell it to the server
Image credits: Derek Hatfield (not the actual photo)
Image credits: u/Gullible-Nose9502
The author helped the best man with Spanish, but he was maliciously served potatoes anyway – and started ranting about it loudly and continuously
Image credits: Ron Dolette (not the actual photo)
Image credits: u/Gullible-Nose9502
The only way to shut the guy down from the author’s side was taking the potatoes from the best man’s plate and serving them to herself
So, the Original Poster (OP) just returned from Mexico where her friend’s wedding took place. According to the author of the post, it was a fancy all-inclusive affair, and apart from a few group events planned for everyone, everything else was at the guests’ own discretion. And then there was a group dinner at a restaurant, where all this happened…
The author of the post was sitting next to the best man, who, in his own words, really didn’t like potatoes. No, the guy neither had any allergies, nor any deep personal reasons for disliking potatoes – it was just his whim. The problem was that the man did not speak Spanish, and could not tell the staff not to serve him potatoes.
Luckily, the OP came to the rescue and explained the situation to the server. But, as it sometimes happens, the guy was maliciously served potatoes. Thus, the server unwittingly turned on the true generator of grumbling and indignation, which the best man spread both to the OP and to all the people around. He ate everything that was on his plate, except, of course, the potatoes, and continued to be loudly livid.
At some point, our heroine’s patience ran out, and she resolved the issue according to the principle: “no potatoes, no problem!” So the woman simply grabbed all the potatoes from the best man’s plate and took them onto her own, after which she began munching them with visible pleasure. The best man stopped mid-sentence, widened his eyes at her, and then without saying a word, went into his suite.
The next day, the dude was already telling everyone right and left how rudely and defiantly the original poster behaved, accusing her of being ‘unladylike.’ It got to the point that OP’s friend asked her to apologize to the guy “for causing drama,” although the woman herself is still completely sure that there was nothing wrong in her action.
Image credits: Mikhail Nilov (not the actual photo)
“Frankly speaking, this is not really a wedding story, since all the events happened, as far as I understand, after the ceremony and the main wedding party,” Denis Tsykanovsky, a wedding host from Tel-Aviv, Israel, whom Bored Panda asked for a comment here, clarifies. “In any case, I don’t see anything here for which this woman should actually apologize. In fact, she even did the best man a small favor, so it wouldn’t hurt for him to thank her.”
“However, if the guy’s main idea was to attract attention to himself because of the server’s banal mistake, then the woman really prevented him. And from his point of view, it seems to me, she actually stole the show, because her gesture was way more effective, theatrical and daring. But, I repeat, I definitely don’t see anything ‘unladylike’ here,” Denis says.
Most of the commenters also found nothing truly reprehensible in the behavior of the original poster, and some laughed heartily, imagining the best man’s face as he looked at this scene. “I hope you made eye contact while devouring the spuds,” someone among the folks in the comments wrote.
However, some people have mixed feelings about the action of the author of the post. “Taking food off someone’s plate is an AH move. But shutting someone up who has been complaining continuously for an hour is a wonderful thing,” this commenter presumes. Be that as it may, we are now looking forward to your opinions on this situation, on whether our heroine did the wrong thing or not. So please feel free to express your point of view in the comments below.
Most people in the comments just cracked up at the best man, imagining this scene in detail
What do you think ?
deanna woods 2 years ago
There are foods that I don't like. If I was accidentally served said foods, I wouldn't sit up and whine about them for an hour. I would just not eat them and let it go. The best man was embarrassed that she dealt with the issue that he was complaining about so easily and he was also upset because she took away the thing that he had decided to talk about during dinner. The commenter that said that the best man is just looking for a reason to be offended was spot on.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
There are certain foods I dislike and certain foods I LOATHE (texture issues with those ones, mostly) and sometimes they're too integral a part of a dish to ask for them to be removed (and also I hate speaking up for myself, lol.) So you know what I do when a dish has foods I dislike/loathe in them? I pick them out like a grownup.... OH WAIT, even a FIVE-YEAR-OLD would be capable of picking out the foods they didn't like and/or just NOT EATING the things they didn't like XD
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Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 2 years ago
I dont like pickles and get served them all the time, even when I ask for a hold. Do you know what I do? I say, "does anyone want my pickle?" and I move on.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
And I'd raise my hand, especially if you'll take my onions!
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WindySwede 2 years ago
You know, just put them to the side. Don't be a potata about it.. Say you need some attention on this day,without saying it..
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I like the intro clarifying he doesn't have a Bruce Wayne parents dying-level of potato animosity 😄
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I'm Potato Guy. I can whine for *ever* about the food I got that I didn't want or vice-versa. I also keep a beady eye on people who came in after me so I can get all righteous about how "I was here first but they got their food before I did). Fortunately my SIL doesn't put up with that c**p and I've learned that whining over food/fairness doesn't have to be one's whole personality. I still whine internally but not to others. I realized that torturing my loved ones at a meal is not good.
Jonathan MacFarlane 2 years ago
In truth, the potatoes had ruined his life as a boy, and his only goal was to avenge his father, who was killed by the tyrant of Potatania.
Lisa Crow 2 years ago
And the server was the son of that tyrant, who served him potatoes tauntingly...alas!
Load More Replies... FloralDangerNoodle 2 years ago
The comments, OH, the glorious comments!!! LOVE this one, "YTA. A glorious, wonderful AH that will inspire us all to AH behavior in the years, nay decades to come. Because taking food off someone's plate is an AH move. But shutting someone up who has been complaining continuously for an hour is a wonderful thing." 😂😂😂
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Memo to self: Arrange for this guy to speak to the Idaho Chamber of Commerce.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
I've heard of potato quality photos, but a potato quality best man?
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
So, I'm assuming this was a grown a** man, right? Was someone trying to hold him down and FORCE him to eat the potatoes? No. He was just an attention seeking little whining man-b*tch. Seriously, you stupid a**hole - you don't want the potatoes? THEN JUST DON'T F*CKING EAT THEM. I love OPs solution and think it's hilarious. You are SO NTA.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
Years ago, I went to breakfast with a large group of people, only a couple of whom I knew well (they all knew each other). I was sitting across from a guy I hadn't really gotten along with during most of the trip. When we each ordered breakfast, I asked for wheat toast, he asked for white. When they brought our orders, they mistakenly gave me white toast, and gave him wheat. The restaurant was really busy, so when the guy tried to get the server's attention, I just looked at him and said, "Is your meal correct? Because I have the right meal, just the wrong toast. If your meal's right, how about we just swap toast, then we don't have to bother the server." So that's what we did.
Christopher Denney 2 years ago
I despise cucumbers in my salad, I ask for them to be left off when I know the place adds them. If I get them anyway, I ask the server for a small plate and pick them all out, and leave it prominently somewhat away from me. They usually come by later, make that "oops" face and take the plate away. They typically do not make the mistake again.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
I know toddlers that are more well behaved than him when there's something on their plate they don't like.
Vinnie 2 years ago
My husband witnessed his 4-year-old negotiating with the dad: "If I finish the peas, can I stay up late?" The dad is a lawyer, but I think the kid won the case.
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The Other Guest 2 years ago
Seriously, how difficult would it have been for him to have just left las patatas on his plate & not mentioned them at all? Such a bebe. Agreeing with the others here & in the article that he just wanted to complain and be the center of attention.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
She spoke Spanish. He did not. She should have ordered him more potatoes.
Mark Stewart 2 years ago
Good lord what a child, having a big sook about the potatoes on his plate and then an even bigger sook when someone took those unwanted potatoes away. Actually no, that's probably really unfair to children 🤣.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
BAHAHAHAH! What a sour-faced loser. I'd have done the same thing and not just because I love potatoes.
Gwyn 2 years ago (edited)
He sounds like a little kid, at a certain age my kids would whine and complain about having something on their plate they didn't like, even if they didn't have to eat it! (We don't make them eat anything they don't want to, but often put a little something on the plate even if they say they don't want it because sometimes they will try it and like it!). I think about age 5 they learn to be ok with the fact that it's on their plate and not a big deal! So this guy? Ridiculous. HE was the one who was rude and ungentleman-like.
Joshua Ortiz 2 years ago
While her actions are hilarious, I wonder if anyone asked him to shut up about the potatoes?
George D 2 years ago
The pettiness of some people makes you wonder what they were like as a child. Would have loved to have sat at that table to watch his reaction when the OP ate it in front of him. Good for her. I hope she stared him down while she devoured it, sour cream and chives all over mouth but refusing to clean it off.
Manatee 2 years ago
I dont get the part about "please don't serve him potatoes", then they were "served maliciously". Was the server a d******d? How was this worded? Something's missing here...
Kristie French 2 years ago
I think it’s “maliciously” is in quotes because potato head probably said it, or alluded to the waiter serving them to him out of spite. Just my take.
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Coffeemama05 2 years ago
He sounds like a man child. If anything, he owes an apology. I’d hate to see him in a relationship
Sylvi Ann Børsheim 2 years ago
But do the resaurant really want to throw away food? The waiter was told the man did not want potatoes, and served him anyway! What a waste of food!
Rochelle Guilbeau 2 years ago
Hands down best way to shut down a whiner! I feel the situation was handled brillently!
Persephone 2 years ago
Aww poor man baby didn't like being called out on his weird drama! 🤣🤣🤣NTA! I would have done the same thing!
R. McTavish 2 years ago
Can we talk about the David Caruso guy in the comments who right f*****g nailed it
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
She was a bit of an AH for taking something from his plate with her HAND without permission. If she apologizes for anything, it should be that. Something like "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have touched your plate, I should have simply told you to stfu about the spuds already" As for drama, he was causing all the drama, first about the spuds, them about her, and he should be apologizing to her for making mountains out of molehills.
Craig Staley 2 years ago
I think it's funny that "No patatas" is Spanish for "No potatoes." These are certainly close enough that the waiters knew what he meant and didn't care about this AH and his wants.
Mary Lou 2 years ago
I'll go with an ESH here (probably going to be downvoted in suspension😏). So guy was an annoying AH, but it's a wedding, there is bound to be someone annoying. So if it 1.doesn't bother the bride and broom 2. Isn't aimed against you or 3. morally important to step in (fe. discrimination, mental harm...) then suck it up instead of stirring conflict during your friend's wedding!
Encarnación 2 years ago
Wow he's not even the groom and he's complaining like that !? Would have thrown them at his face.
Little but Fierce 2 years ago
It's really rude to deliberately put food on someone's plate when they've told you they can't eat that food. I can't eat cucumber - a tiny bit touching my food makes that food inedible. I'd be upset if someone "maliciously" put cucumber on my plate out of anger at me saying I didn't want any.
R Dennis 2 years ago
But would you lose your nugget at the wedding dinner? Also, he ate everything else... I am not saying he doesn't have a right to be mad, but it doesn't seem proportional or the appropriate time.
Load More Replies... deanna woods 2 years ago
There are foods that I don't like. If I was accidentally served said foods, I wouldn't sit up and whine about them for an hour. I would just not eat them and let it go. The best man was embarrassed that she dealt with the issue that he was complaining about so easily and he was also upset because she took away the thing that he had decided to talk about during dinner. The commenter that said that the best man is just looking for a reason to be offended was spot on.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
There are certain foods I dislike and certain foods I LOATHE (texture issues with those ones, mostly) and sometimes they're too integral a part of a dish to ask for them to be removed (and also I hate speaking up for myself, lol.) So you know what I do when a dish has foods I dislike/loathe in them? I pick them out like a grownup.... OH WAIT, even a FIVE-YEAR-OLD would be capable of picking out the foods they didn't like and/or just NOT EATING the things they didn't like XD
Load More Replies... Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo 2 years ago
I dont like pickles and get served them all the time, even when I ask for a hold. Do you know what I do? I say, "does anyone want my pickle?" and I move on.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
And I'd raise my hand, especially if you'll take my onions!
Load More Replies... WindySwede 2 years ago
You know, just put them to the side. Don't be a potata about it.. Say you need some attention on this day,without saying it..
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I like the intro clarifying he doesn't have a Bruce Wayne parents dying-level of potato animosity 😄
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 years ago
I'm Potato Guy. I can whine for *ever* about the food I got that I didn't want or vice-versa. I also keep a beady eye on people who came in after me so I can get all righteous about how "I was here first but they got their food before I did). Fortunately my SIL doesn't put up with that c**p and I've learned that whining over food/fairness doesn't have to be one's whole personality. I still whine internally but not to others. I realized that torturing my loved ones at a meal is not good.
Jonathan MacFarlane 2 years ago
In truth, the potatoes had ruined his life as a boy, and his only goal was to avenge his father, who was killed by the tyrant of Potatania.
Lisa Crow 2 years ago
And the server was the son of that tyrant, who served him potatoes tauntingly...alas!
Load More Replies... FloralDangerNoodle 2 years ago
The comments, OH, the glorious comments!!! LOVE this one, "YTA. A glorious, wonderful AH that will inspire us all to AH behavior in the years, nay decades to come. Because taking food off someone's plate is an AH move. But shutting someone up who has been complaining continuously for an hour is a wonderful thing." 😂😂😂
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Memo to self: Arrange for this guy to speak to the Idaho Chamber of Commerce.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
I've heard of potato quality photos, but a potato quality best man?
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
So, I'm assuming this was a grown a** man, right? Was someone trying to hold him down and FORCE him to eat the potatoes? No. He was just an attention seeking little whining man-b*tch. Seriously, you stupid a**hole - you don't want the potatoes? THEN JUST DON'T F*CKING EAT THEM. I love OPs solution and think it's hilarious. You are SO NTA.
Nightshade1972 2 years ago
Years ago, I went to breakfast with a large group of people, only a couple of whom I knew well (they all knew each other). I was sitting across from a guy I hadn't really gotten along with during most of the trip. When we each ordered breakfast, I asked for wheat toast, he asked for white. When they brought our orders, they mistakenly gave me white toast, and gave him wheat. The restaurant was really busy, so when the guy tried to get the server's attention, I just looked at him and said, "Is your meal correct? Because I have the right meal, just the wrong toast. If your meal's right, how about we just swap toast, then we don't have to bother the server." So that's what we did.
Christopher Denney 2 years ago
I despise cucumbers in my salad, I ask for them to be left off when I know the place adds them. If I get them anyway, I ask the server for a small plate and pick them all out, and leave it prominently somewhat away from me. They usually come by later, make that "oops" face and take the plate away. They typically do not make the mistake again.
White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago
I know toddlers that are more well behaved than him when there's something on their plate they don't like.
Vinnie 2 years ago
My husband witnessed his 4-year-old negotiating with the dad: "If I finish the peas, can I stay up late?" The dad is a lawyer, but I think the kid won the case.
Load More Replies... The Other Guest 2 years ago
Seriously, how difficult would it have been for him to have just left las patatas on his plate & not mentioned them at all? Such a bebe. Agreeing with the others here & in the article that he just wanted to complain and be the center of attention.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
She spoke Spanish. He did not. She should have ordered him more potatoes.
Mark Stewart 2 years ago
Good lord what a child, having a big sook about the potatoes on his plate and then an even bigger sook when someone took those unwanted potatoes away. Actually no, that's probably really unfair to children 🤣.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
BAHAHAHAH! What a sour-faced loser. I'd have done the same thing and not just because I love potatoes.
Gwyn 2 years ago (edited)
He sounds like a little kid, at a certain age my kids would whine and complain about having something on their plate they didn't like, even if they didn't have to eat it! (We don't make them eat anything they don't want to, but often put a little something on the plate even if they say they don't want it because sometimes they will try it and like it!). I think about age 5 they learn to be ok with the fact that it's on their plate and not a big deal! So this guy? Ridiculous. HE was the one who was rude and ungentleman-like.
Joshua Ortiz 2 years ago
While her actions are hilarious, I wonder if anyone asked him to shut up about the potatoes?
George D 2 years ago
The pettiness of some people makes you wonder what they were like as a child. Would have loved to have sat at that table to watch his reaction when the OP ate it in front of him. Good for her. I hope she stared him down while she devoured it, sour cream and chives all over mouth but refusing to clean it off.
Manatee 2 years ago
I dont get the part about "please don't serve him potatoes", then they were "served maliciously". Was the server a d******d? How was this worded? Something's missing here...
Kristie French 2 years ago
I think it’s “maliciously” is in quotes because potato head probably said it, or alluded to the waiter serving them to him out of spite. Just my take.
Load More Replies... Coffeemama05 2 years ago
He sounds like a man child. If anything, he owes an apology. I’d hate to see him in a relationship
Sylvi Ann Børsheim 2 years ago
But do the resaurant really want to throw away food? The waiter was told the man did not want potatoes, and served him anyway! What a waste of food!
Rochelle Guilbeau 2 years ago
Hands down best way to shut down a whiner! I feel the situation was handled brillently!
Persephone 2 years ago
Aww poor man baby didn't like being called out on his weird drama! 🤣🤣🤣NTA! I would have done the same thing!
R. McTavish 2 years ago
Can we talk about the David Caruso guy in the comments who right f*****g nailed it
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
She was a bit of an AH for taking something from his plate with her HAND without permission. If she apologizes for anything, it should be that. Something like "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have touched your plate, I should have simply told you to stfu about the spuds already" As for drama, he was causing all the drama, first about the spuds, them about her, and he should be apologizing to her for making mountains out of molehills.
Craig Staley 2 years ago
I think it's funny that "No patatas" is Spanish for "No potatoes." These are certainly close enough that the waiters knew what he meant and didn't care about this AH and his wants.
Mary Lou 2 years ago
I'll go with an ESH here (probably going to be downvoted in suspension😏). So guy was an annoying AH, but it's a wedding, there is bound to be someone annoying. So if it 1.doesn't bother the bride and broom 2. Isn't aimed against you or 3. morally important to step in (fe. discrimination, mental harm...) then suck it up instead of stirring conflict during your friend's wedding!
Encarnación 2 years ago
Wow he's not even the groom and he's complaining like that !? Would have thrown them at his face.
Little but Fierce 2 years ago
It's really rude to deliberately put food on someone's plate when they've told you they can't eat that food. I can't eat cucumber - a tiny bit touching my food makes that food inedible. I'd be upset if someone "maliciously" put cucumber on my plate out of anger at me saying I didn't want any.
R Dennis 2 years ago
But would you lose your nugget at the wedding dinner? Also, he ate everything else... I am not saying he doesn't have a right to be mad, but it doesn't seem proportional or the appropriate time.
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