The Invisible Customer. Episode 1: Invisible Customer vs. Brain-dead Waitress

LOCATION:
Café Baton, Herengracht 82, lunchtime.

CAST:
Me and a friend.................Invisible Customers
The Baton Staff.................The Brain-Dead Waitresses

DURATION:
40 minutes

THE PLOT:
Two invisible customers (Me and a friend) go to Café Baton for lunch. They sit at the table. Of course there's no menu on the table.
They wait for somebody to show up with the menu or to take the orders. Nobody in sight. Suddenly a waitress walks by. One of the invisible customers tries to grab her attention but in vain. She's gone already.
For the next 30 minutes no waitress in sight. Bird flu? Sudden extinction? The mystery thickens.
After 40 minutes the invisible customers decide to give up. But wait! On their way out, at the door, a waitress suddenly appears. She smiles and with a chilling high pitched voice she says: "Doeiiiiiiiiii!!!"

THE END

Comments

[Angela]

I went out for lunch at a place in the Bosboom Touissant straat. There were five of us and we sat down at one table. The waiter came in ten minutes and his first question amazed me: " Are you all toghether?" I jokingly answered "no, I always sit down at full tables with people I don't know" He smiled but I'm quite confident he wasn't amused.
After he took our drink order and we had finished looking at the menu he had another brilliant question. Instead of asking if we wanted to order he asked us if we would like the bill. We told him we'd like to order something and he said " oh, you want to eat something?" Now let's see: we're at a lunch place, during lunch hour, we already have a drink do you think we'd like to eat?
We had a decent lunch and left pretty quickly but how someone like that keeps his job is a mystery to me...

[Neil]

Who the world manages to sit in a cafe for 40 minutes without approaching a waiter/waitress himself/herself? If the place were completely deserted and you were truly the only two people in sight in there, I would have left within 10 minutes.

But I somehow get the impression that you did see waiters/waitresses walking around (perhaps in the distance), but for some reason you didn't just stand up, approach one, and pull that waitperson over.