Intuition in a Restaurant
Nigel and I train ourselves to hear our intuition. We want to be aware when it speaks to us, and we want to follow its guidance. We are good at hearing it when we focus in on it, as we do when working with clients, or when making conscious decisions. However, even we don’t always heed it when it comes unbidden with useful information that we haven’t asked for.
A good example of this is our most recent trip to Red Robin, a family restaurant we visit from time to time. Our experiences at this restaurant have been uniformly very positive. We expect to have a good meal when we go there, and we assume we will have attentive, quick service.
This weekend, we went to Red Robin, and followed the hostess to the booth she selected for us. She stopped in front of a 2-person booth adjacent to the entrance to the kitchen and pickup windows. As she asked if that seat would be accepatable, I found myself stepping back and wanting to say ‘no’. Immediately my brain kicked in, and I analyzed why I could feel that way. I decided that the nearness to the kitchen perhaps put me off, and it didn’t seem a reasonable concern, so we accepted our seat.
That was when the trouble began. Our server came and introduced himself. He was one whom we had had before, and our experience with him in the past was quite good. He took our drink order and then disappeared….for a very, very long time. Much later, he came back without drinks and took our food order. Some time later, our drinks arrived with apologies. The wait for our food was also much longer than average. The restaurant was not that busy, and it just didn’t make sense. We had the feeling that we were in some invisible time warp. The food finally arrived, and Nigel’s order was wrong. So his meal was sent back, while I started eating mine. Unfortunately, I was nearly done when his meal arrived, and that somewhat spoiled the experience.
I feel very strongly that the booth we were in had a lot of negative energy associated with it, and that I had sensed this at some level when she suggested we sit there. I wanted to say no, but because I couldn’t analyze a reason, I gave in. As soon as things started going wrong, I realized my mistake. My intuition had spoken to me. It tried to get me to sit somewhere else, but I couldn’t think of a logical reason to say no to the hostess. So I ignored it.
I am convinced that if I had listened to my intuition and asked to sit elsewhere, we would have had a very nice experience at lunch that day. I also believe that everyone can get these types of feelings that can guide them to have happier, healthier experiences. It is just a matter of learning to recognize them and trusting what they say.
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For many years I was a touring musician. This would frequently put me in towns or cities I had never visited before. Not knowing the parts of town to avoid, I’d nonetheless go for a walk to unwind after the show. Many times I have followed my intuition and turned around when I felt uncomfortable. Inevitably I’d find out later that I had been fortunate to not venture onto certain streets. More than once I have discovered someone had been beaten or worse in that area just moments after I followed my intuition back to ther hotel.
By the way, this also worked for contracts and in accepting employment (or not!) with an act that had offered me work.
Good for you for following it. I suspect that a lot of people don’t and then blame something or somebody for what happens to them.
Glad to hear that all seemed to work out fine for you!