...So how would they find out if someone told the waiter they were allergic to something when they weren't? Did the customer brag about it to the other people at the table? Did the waiter purposely have it included in the food to see if they were lying?

Huh, I don't see the original list thing about take-out.

25) You claim you’re “a friend of the owner.” So what? 5000 people are operating under a similar delusion.

Hahaha. When I was volunteering at the botanical gardens, I was at the register taking entry fees and this one guy came up and started asking (I thought) "Where's my [indecipherable]? I need to see my [indecipherable]!" and I wasn't really sure what to say because as far as I knew we didn't even have a lost and found. And then it clicked that he was asking about a person whose name started with the sound "my" so I went, Oh, a person? and he said Yeah, My___, big muckety-muck at the gardens (I swear he actually said muckety-muck) so I just pointed him to the table you go if you're meeting people. I don't know if My___ was a donor or if they worked at the gardens or what.

So: Don't assume the person you're trying to impress has any idea who Big Important Person Who You Totally Know is! Especially if they're a teenage volunteer with a nametag and not a regular employee with a uniform.