Popular Mean Girl is Your WAITRESS? (And She’s Not Happy About It) (Drama) (Enemies to... Friends?)

Summary

A student walks into a rundown diner and is stunned to find the school’s popular mean girl working as a waitress. The waitress assumes the customer has come to expose or embarrass her. The customer makes the awkward encounter worse by asking for French toast the diner doesn’t serve, requesting water without ice, and insisting on separate forks for the pancakes and omelette.

The waitress snaps that the meal is all going to the same place and wonders whether the customer is deliberately calling her over just to annoy her.

Eventually, the waitress explains that her school friends don’t know where she lives or that she works long shifts to save for college. She stays with the popular crowd because it feels easier than risking close friendships that might end after graduation. She also admits she’s sorry her friends pick on the customer. The two begin to soften toward each other, though the customer continues to push her about leaving the clique.

Their argument grows loud enough for the boss to hear. The waitress is fired and lashes out at the customer for provoking her when she desperately needed the job. The customer speaks to the boss and manages to get her job back. The waitress is grateful and surprised, but they part on a tentative note rather than suddenly becoming close friends.

Personalities

• The waitress / popular girl: Sharp-tongued and defensive, but under pressure to support herself and save for college.
• The customer / student: Teasing and confrontational at first, then steps in to help after causing real harm.
• The diner boss: Briefly intervenes and fires the waitress, then apparently reconsiders after speaking with the customer.