hostess directed me into a ocean of water

Chances are it was more than just water. It was probably water and
whatever scum accumulated on the bottom of the busser's bus tub. Maybe
a little ketchup, some soda, perhaps and finest chardonnay Red Lobster
has to offer. LOLZ

I'm still trying to figure out how a damp seat is an "ocean" of
water.


I've been listening to an audiobook of Dune and I can only imagine
Fremen as treating a light coating of water as being an ocean...
except that the word ocean isn't in their vocabulary in the first
place.

Then again they'd probably try to suck the light coating of water up
and store it in a stillsuit anyway...


=)

Most likely, they had just wiped down the tables. It happens in
restaurants, so most people look before they sit. If there was a
'flood' of water there, you could have asked for another seat, or for
a drier towel to remove some of the water.

It's very possible that the hostess left to get something to dry off
with, but you never gave them the chance. There were several other
ways that this could have been handled. We once had a Father's Day
meal, but it had the worst entertainment. The accordian player just
kept playing the same song over & over. Never took a break the whole
time we were there. Instead of letting it be a problem, it became
something we could laugh about later. Things happen. Unless they
were dry-clean only, which would have likely been mentioned if it was
the case, then water would be a temporary inconvenience.

It was your choice to turn the situation into a "red herring".This
event was a celebration for Father's day and you chose to turn it
sour. Why didn't your family take a lemon and make into lemonade?
Enough!! WATER dries and if that much on the chair, someone in your
party would have heard the water flooding off the chair. All the best.

Water dries naturally.

You know that, right?

I don't understand the purchase of new pants. It's not like it was
soda or something like salad dressing. It's water, something we wash
our clothes in.

Thus, the $42 pair of new pants and the ruined meal.

find the headline ironic given that it's to Red Lobster?

Ohh the temptation ;)

My best guess is that the seats were *damp* from being wiped down from
a cleaning rag, not so wet that you really needed to go buy new pants.
If the seats were THAT wet, I think most people would have noticed
prior to sitting down.

for a manager or a towel. Probably both.