Stiffed Waitress: Warren Sapp ‘Over-Reacted’ To Her Calling Him ‘Boy’
Pro Bowl defensive lineman Warren Sapp says the waitress who called him “boy” at a Miami sports bar deserved to get stiffed at tip time. The waitress, however, insists that Sapp “overreacted” to what she considers an innocuous greeting.
Sapp took issue to the waitress saying, “Hey, boys,” upon approaching his table at the Upper Deck Ale and Sports Grill outside Miami, where Sapp had gone to watch World Cup soccer. In return, Sapp and his guest gobbled down a bucket of Heineken, a margarita pizza, some wings, a Reuben sandwich and crab soup, then left without tipping the waitress.
“Boys Don’t Tip!” he wrote on the receipt for the $69.30 bill.
Someone close to the waitress apparently made her tip-less encounter with Sapp public early in the week, and it wasn’t long before ESPN reporter Darren Rowell was tweeting a picture of the credit card receipt:
Restaurant server says Warren Sapp came to watch US game, stiffed her on tip pic.twitter.com/DZxkS7Y58w
— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) July 2, 2014
Sapp believes “the tip fit” because the term the waitress used was inappropriate. He didn’t even stay to watch the end of the soccer match he’d come to see.
He initially tweeted “the tip fit” remark, then erased that and switched to this on Wednesday after the flap went viral:
No waitress will ever call me a boy twice after the 1st time & I say to her “when u look at me do u see a boy?” #HenceBoysDontTip
— Warren Sapp (@WarrenSapp) July 2, 2014
The waitress called into the Andy Slater Show on Miami’s WINZ on Tuesday and said Sapp had “overreacted” to her comment:
“We were busy. I walked over to his table. It was him and one other guy and I said, ‘Hey boys, what I can I get you to drink?’ And he was like ‘We’re not boys. I’m a man,'” the waitress said. “I mean, saying ‘Hey men, what do you want to drink?’ sounds kind of weird, I think. I go with ‘boys’ a lot. It sounds more youthful.”
After that, reports TMZ, the waitress, a 26-year-old named Corey, switched to monikers like “honey” and “sugar.” But by then, it was too late.
” I didn’t know ‘boys’ was offensive. It’d just be [like] if I went up to a table of girls, I’d say ‘hey girls’ — or ‘hey ladies.'”
Some have wondered whether Sapp was looking for any excuse he could find to save a few dollars, since he was forced to file for bankruptcy not too long ago. Others are quick to point out how, until just a few decades ago, “boy” was a common way to address a black man in a derogatory way.
So did the “tip fit?” Yes. And no.
[Image courtesy of TV Fanatic]
