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Is there video of the exchange between the customer and the manager out there?

Did he buy it with one of those bonuses the military mistakenly paid out?

The manager's only reaction should have been, Thanks for bringing this to my attention, I hope you enjoyed your meal.

The elderly man's only reaction should have been, Thanks for the meal.*

Looking into other people's bowl is a large part of what is wrong with a certain element this society - as if a gift or reward is rendered valueless if someone else gets one, too.

*unless maybe it was really about the service dog.

"...Looking into other people's bowl is a large part of what is wrong with a certain element this society..."

I dislike this maxim, because if the past 30+ years are indicative of anything, it's that more bowls should definitely be looked into, especially in the banking industry.

I know it's supposed to be targeted at your relationship with your peers, but I've seen it used as justification for not asking questions about how "self-made" people got rich or if maybe that wealthy dude over there hasn't been paying taxes for a decade.

I have honestly never heard the expression used for that purpose, but I have no doubt your account is true. So, thanks for adding that to the depressing stuff of the week.

Still, it is a classic case of using a slice of an ideology against someone without adopting it oneself: "Sure I killed your family, but aren't Christians supposed to forgive?" One of the driving forces behind the debacle that the banking industry the past 30+ years became is greed-envy, or in other words, looking in someone else's bowl.

It could also be understood that as long as everyone has enough, they'll tolerate extreme inequity, which is true. The problem is people don't perceive they have enough. Maybe they don't. That's not relevant to their actions though, only their perception.

I don't understand the WW2 comment. There were black units and you'd have to be roughly 89 to have seen any action.

Ah yes. to be old and racist with a selective if not failing memory.

Are you seriously going to trust documented history and basic math over the word of an American hero who didn't see any blacks when he served in WW2 at the age of minus twenty?

To be fair, the "70 some years old" was just Walker's estimation and he could be wrong. Also from Walker's quote we don't know if the old guy was claiming he was in WWII or just making a statement about it. So he could just be a normal bigot and not a senile one.

To be fair old white guys do all look the same.

You wouldn't believe how often I nearly I pick up the wrong old white guy at the airport. And he's my father!

I wish I were joking.

So either they do all look alike or I am seriously faceblind.

I'm also guessing that he didn't say, "Excelsior!"...

Angry people are going to find a reason, even when one doesn't make sense. A friend of mine had this theory that everyone decides whatever emotionally first and then builds a reason. Smart people look at their reasons and reassess. Dumb people think that the stronger the feeling the more right they must be.

That promotion didn't give them the press they wanted. I'm surprised that there weren't other veterans there that heard what was going on and intervene. If I overheard someone treating my brother in arms like this I'd lose it.

Chili's is apologizing for what happened next.

"On a day where we served more than 200,000 free meals as a small gesture of our appreciation for our veterans and active military for their service, we fell short," [Chili's president Kelli] Valade said.