Exactly one month ago today, some time around 8:30pm, I was sitting at a bar table in Legal Seafoods in Atlanta waiting on my dinner of fish and chips. It had been about half an hour since I ordered and I was getting impatient. I arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson airport at 9am, had a full day professionally, and was far past ready to eat and climb into bed. The next four days would be filled with back to back conference schedule, working dinners and social obligations. I wanted my damn food and it kept not arriving.
After repeated promises by the server that it was on the way, a soggy basket of warm fish and cold chips arrived an hour and fifteen minutes after ordering with a plunk as the server turned and walked away without as much as a grunt. I looked at this mess, took a bite to confirm my suspicions, and pushed it away. I no longer had an appetite for this meal, but it wasn’t the just the bad quality and even worse service that did it. I’d been scanning Daily Kos on my phone as I waited, a luxury I’d had little time for since taking leave of the site last November, and what I’d read at here KTK sealed the deal.
