Interview · moment 9 of 17
Analyzing the Diner Guy's Confusion and Not Feeling Superior
from The Big Booth (with Devan Costa) · #141
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5 minGuest
The group dissects the confused waiter's reaction (asking if Tim has Tourette's), whether Ben reads as gay, and Tim insists his outburst wasn't about feeling superior to the working-class waiter but about refusing arbitrary rules.
- 30:00Tim realizes the waiter was probably just having a rough day too.
- 30:34The waiter asked if Tim has Tourette's after being snapped at.
- 31:20Michelle later returned to the diner and the waiter told her a customer had flipped out on him for no clear reason.
- 31:42Tim's companion apparently gets mistaken for gay by most people they meet.
- 32:19Tim explains his actual reason for engaging with the waiter: he doesn't feel superior to him.
- 32:42Tim says he talks to Uber drivers and doesn't feel above any human being on earth.
- 33:07The reason the conflict happened: if the waiter had explained his manager's rules like a human being, Tim would have accepted it.
- 33:53Tim describes what the waiter should have said instead: honest acknowledgment that his manager was the real problem.
- 34:15The waiter gleefully enforced an arbitrary rule like the Nazis did, rather than relating to Tim as a person.