The joy of bad service

Over the past few days, we (my wife and I) have benefitted from bad service at restaurants/bars.

Wednesday night we got a free cheese plate because the "kitchen forgot the order" (or maybe it was the waitress?).

Tonight we ended up with a free dessert, a free espresso martini, and 2 free glasses of dessert wine because the bar was slow delivering the drinks to our waitress.

And we didn't ask for any special treatment, it was just given to us.

Obviously if you're in a hurry then slow service can be a hassle and annoying. But if you've got time to kill, it can actually be to your benefit...