Jack Astor's Stole My Sunglasses
May 27, 2001

Back on April 23, 2001, my friend Rebecca & I went to Jack Astor's in Richmond Hill for dinner. It's a nice enough place; you know, your typical bar-trying-to-be-a-restaurant during the day place. The food is decent, the staff are fun, and there's crayons to write on the paper tablecloth with. You know the type.

Anyway, we arrived for dinner, and sat down at the table. I took my sunglasses off and put them down on the table, where they stayed all through the meal.

I, of course, forgot them there.

I didn't realize this 'til I got home that night (about 1:00am or so), so it was too late to call them then (The bar isn't open on Monday nights).

What happened the next day is what pissed me off.

You see, theorhetically, it should have been easy to get my sunglasses back (which, by the way, were $220 - plus tax - Oakley Square Wire 2.0's). We were (I think) the last people to leave the place. So whoever cleared the table (and replaced the brown paper with crayon all over it) must have found my sunglasses. And they SHOULD have turned them in to the manager or whoever so I could get them back when I called.

Instead, that person (or another staff member) slipped them into their pocket, never to be seen by me again.

What is this world coming to? Sure, I was a moron to have forgotten them there. But the person clearing the table should have turned them in. They've got a lot of guts to steal them when it's obvious who has taken them. Sure, I can't prove anything. They get to keep them.

And what pissed me off even more is that management didn't care. After a number of phone calls and a visit in person, all I got was shrugged off. They didn't care that one of their employees was a thief. And who are they going to steal from next? That's right, Jack - your cash register.

As a side note, I did the exact same thing about three weeks later at The Mongolian Grill in Waterloo - and they happily returned my sunglasses the next day when I realized what I'd done.

I'll be dining there again.