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1 I also worked as a hostess in a restaurant where someone quite literally died in the restaurant and they didn’t close the dining room.

2 An elderly lady came in with her son and her daughter-in-law, and it was a big room, like twice the size of this, and that was just the back dining room; it was a restaurant across from the Convention Center.

3 This woman had a heart attack and fell over.

4 When the waitress came to take her order, she’s on the floor.

5 The family is sobbing, the waitress is in shock, the people at the next table are ordering another round of beer, and the staff – the manager said just [makes a ‘big round nothing’ with her fingers].

6 They didn’t shut the dining room.

7 The paramedics were, they literally intubated her and were pumping [makes CPR motions], and people were still eating, and they carried her out with a blanket over her face.

8 Through the front dining room.

9 You’d think it was something out of a movie, that you couldn’t possibly have this happen in real life.

10 That was the day I decided to leave that place.

11 That was a defining moment.

12 That guy was unbelievable.

13 And that night, a customer came in as we were closing down and said, ‘Can I speak to the manager?’

14 That’s never a good sign.

15 And I got the manager and the manager asked what the trouble was, and he said, ‘I was here when the lady’ – and trailed off – ‘and I called 911 on the cell phone.’

16 The guy wanted some sort of compensation that his dinner was interrupted.

17 And he wanted some kind of compensation from the restaurant.

18 I’ve never been so appalled by, sort of, your average human being.

19 I have no words to even assess that.

20 It was … It was awful.

21 But it’s like the type of thing you would see in a TV show, as a black comedy.

22 You would think it would never happen in real life and it did.

Source: by permission of K. Bischoping and E. Quinlan