>I'd like a plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast.Can anyone help me decipher this scene? I can't figure out why Nicholson's character decided to provoke the waitress like this. She was just doing her job...
Boomers get off on lording petty control over people in the service industry.
Another weeping for the slave thread
>>217381688The waitress could have had a better attitude but Jack was being way too picky.
>>217381688>plain omeletteThat's scrambled eggs, just get scrambled eggs
>>217381688it was a generational thing in the 60s. She was a square with too many rules man. Diners represent repression and corporate conservatism breakfast needs to be free.
>>217381688>I'd like plain tendies, no ketchup, bbq sauce instead, a can of coke, and large fries
What I have never understood is his angry line, "I want you to hold it between your knees!" Maybe I'm thick, so forgive me. But if it's a sexual thing, wouldn't he say, "I want you to hold it between your legs!" I don't get knees.
>>217381688Checked. But what the hell is "wheat toast"?
>>217381688“I, Del Ike Applai (gnome), let no pot!”Wtf?
>>217381688>plain omelette, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast.When you're really hungry and making fuck all each month, this honestly sounds like a feast.
>>217382045I'm pretty sure he meant whole wheat toast not white bread.
Civvies would never understand the plight of the service industry chad
Okay but what fucking diner doesn't sell toast? He was in the right.
>>217381688I'm not relaying all that shit to our esl cook. Pick something from the menu retard.
>>217381688I never understood being rude to people handling your food. Do they get off to the thrill of someone spitting in their food?
>grow up with poor hick servers desperate for your money>time passes, gap between you and and servers narrows>theyre no longer desperate for your money >get madThat's it
>>217382758I wondered the same thing when I worked at an oil change place as a kid. I pissed in a couple oil filters while in the pit.
>>217381688He just wanted a basic ass breakfast...deducting things from your meal isn't a chore especially if you're paying the same amount like he offered she was just a lazy hag. I could go down the block and order this from a diner and they wouldn't give me any problem.
>>217381829This anon doesn't know how to cook an omelette.
>>217383961based
>>217381688>no potatoes, tomatoes insteaddo Americans eat potatoes for breakfast?
>>217381688Would she shit her pants if he asked for a BLT, hold the bacon and a plain omelet?
>>217384185>do Americans eat potatoes for breakfast?No. Nobody does.
>>217384220why is it on the menu then
>>217384185>>217384220Hash browns.
>>217384274nobody orders potatoes and expects them to deliver hash browns
>>217384257Ever see water on a menu? Ever see anybody order it?
>>217384336very low IQ post, the menu item is omelette and potatoes
>>217384185lots of countries eat fried potatoes as part of a fried breakfast.
>>217381688>just doing her jobThen she should have taken his perfectly reasonable, doable order without all the attitude. She, being a Karen, didn't like being proven wrong and made to look foolish when her arbitrary bullshit was called out and circumnavigated with clear, direct instructions
>>217381688Autism, the thread
>>217381688>I want you to put the potatoes up your ASS
>>217382009He's being disrespectful and rude and demeaning her. He's also a complete fucking nutcase. Have any of you watched this movie or just know it from this meme? He's an unlikeable jerk from beginning to end. The second after he says the knees line he sweeps the table with his arm, breaking plates and glasses and scaring the waitress and everyone at the table. He's a mental case.
>>217384606And give ME four CHICKEN McNuggets
>>217384567There was a printed sign on the wall. She didn't out it up. It is obviously there for a reason. Maybe it's an auto ticket system and looks like a big busy diner, like she isn't in charge of policy and being a dickhead to some waitress in a diner you'll never be in again is asshole behavior. Once she pointed to the sign, and maybe explaining (I guess? fuck him, if he doesn't like it he can take it up with management) it's policy etc, that's it. He can hold a boot between his asscheeks our the door if he doesn't like it.
>>217381688He accidentally went to the Longhouse instead of the Wafflehouse
>>217384934Wronghe got around the arbitrary restriction imposed by the sign by offering to buy an entirely separate entree to fulfill his order and appease her unnecessary adherence to the policy, and she still refused out of impudent spute
>>217381688n the 1970 film Five Easy Pieces, Jack Nicholson's character, Bobby Dupea, is mean to the diner waitress as an expression of his deep-seated alienation and frustration with societal constraints. The character's behavior in this iconic "chicken salad sandwich" scene is driven by several key factors:Rebellion Against Rigidity: Bobby is a former piano prodigy who has abandoned his upper-class roots but finds no peace in his new blue-collar life. The waitress’s strict "no substitutions" policy represents the "meaningless rules" and societal conformity he despises.Displacement of Anger: Critics note it is no coincidence he directs his rage at a waitress, as she shares the same occupation as his girlfriend, Rayette, whom he treats with similar disrespect and shame.Self-Defeating Nature: Although he successfully uses a clever loophole to order toast (by asking for a chicken salad sandwich and telling her to "hold the chicken"), he ultimately sweeps the glasses off the table in a fit of pique. Afterward, he acknowledges the behavior was self-defeating because he still didn't get what he wanted.Characterization of an Antihero: The scene serves to establish Bobby as an "impulsively flippant and angry person" who refuses to abide by life's minor frustrations. Real-Life InspirationThe scene was based on an actual incident witnessed by screenwriter Carole Eastman at Pupi's Bakery in Los Angeles, where an aggrieved Jack Nicholson pushed plates and cups off a table in real life.
