Discussion: Alito Turned Away From Brunch By Hostess Who Didn't Recognize Him

system1 · October 27, 2014, 4:47pm

Discussion for article #229362

rcarlosnyc · October 27, 2014, 5:16pm

Why is this news? Because he didn’t drop his name and throw a “Do you know who I am” hissy fit?

zakimon · October 27, 2014, 5:18pm

Slow news day?

Robman2 · October 27, 2014, 5:19pm

Too bad it wasn’t a lunch counter/s

Who cares?

mattinpa · October 27, 2014, 5:20pm

Folks, folks, it’s on the site because it’s a little moment where a powerful person gets turned down like the rest of us might. Not a big deal, just a mildly amusing thing if you think it is.

Diogenes67 · October 27, 2014, 5:21pm

Who is he?

carlosfiance · October 27, 2014, 5:21pm

If the place was full, shouldn’t he have been turned away, whoever he was?
If the place wasn’t full, and I was the maitre-d’, and I knew who he was, I’d have turned him away anyway.

obijonkenobi · October 27, 2014, 5:25pm

It would have been a much better story if she HAD recognized him and THEN refused to seat him.

sniffit · October 27, 2014, 5:28pm

Life is full of difficult decisions: kick him to the curb or find a way to get him a seat so you can spit in his eggs? I honestly don’t know which one I would pick.

littlegirlblue · October 27, 2014, 5:28pm

Used to be a nobody, and if he thinks he’s now somebody, the restaurant hostess showed him the error in his thinking. Still a nothing burger of a story. .

ronbyers · October 27, 2014, 5:28pm

Good for the hostess and good for Alito. I think more of him now.

aneedell · October 27, 2014, 5:34pm

This is a story?

rudesan · October 27, 2014, 5:37pm

Oh great. Now hostesses won’t be able to marry or something. Watch this space. Or maybe Buzzfeed.

thepsyker · October 27, 2014, 5:37pm

Don’t know if I would go so far as to say I think more of him, but I don’t think less of him like I would have if he had gone all “do you know who I am?”

superabound · October 27, 2014, 5:42pm

Most. Boring. Story. Ever.

ragtopdodge · October 27, 2014, 5:43pm

Good job hostess! Give her a raise!

hychka · October 27, 2014, 5:45pm

I got turned away from brunch at The Inn at Turkey Run State Park in Indiana Sunday noon time. Want the details and a photo for a story? You could interview my wife, who was VERY disappointed. I have footage of the park’s fall foliage…even a video around the covered bridge!

meta · October 27, 2014, 5:47pm

He does look a little crazy without his glasses.

robert1971 · October 27, 2014, 5:48pm

I don’t agree with him politically but kudos for him for not dropping the “You know who I am” card.

Must be no excitement over the midterms for this to be a headlined story.

stevieD · October 27, 2014, 5:51pm

Happens to me all the time, but I don’t take offense. I don’t know who I am either.