I work in a kosher kitchen at a retreat center in California.  I've worked there for a long time and during my tenure I have seen many things from the insane and ludicrous to the downright incomprehensible.  I have seen Parents send 3 year old children to fight their way through crowds of belligerent teenagers in order to get their lazy parents cups of boiling water, (which I always refuse to give, most of the time we can only watch as STUPID plays out, sometimes, we can stop it, and rarely its even worth stopping) to teacher who will spend 2 hours lecturing kids about taking care of the environment and immediately after asks me to bring out 1.5 Styrofoam cups for every single kid, because they forgot to bring water bottles and are too spoiled to use a drinking fountain.I have learned so much about people, from watching them get food, eat food and sometimes clean up food, I thought it important to share some of the lessons Ive learned so that the world at large can have a few laughs and HOPEFULLY avoid acting as, for lack of a better term , pathetic as so many people in a public eating setting. 
     A few weeks ago a group from a local private school came to the retreat center for 2 days and 3 nights before the semester started.  At the beginning of the meal, there is obviously a full compliment of silver ware; forks, knives, spoons etc. but by the time I pass out dessert the kids (usually the ones who attend a private school) the kids require a new piece of silver ware because somehow their old ones became contaminated over the course of the meal (ya I dont get it either).  So anyways instead of adding more things to be washed I often times will put out a bin of plastic spoons next to the dessert (assuming the dessert is sorbet as it was on this day).  Ive never had any problems with kids eating their desserts, yet for some reason kid after kid from this school kept coming up to me and saying My spoon broke! Now, I dont answer rhetorical statements, I also hate idol conversation, if you have a question ask or go away.  After a minute of awkward silence the kid usually proceeds to say, why did it break? for those of you not fortunate enough to figure out the english language and American usage, WHY is the most worthless question in the english language, WHY did the spoon break? I assume because you are a moron with no manners who cannot tie your own shoe, how am I supposed to know WHY the spoon broke, maybe next time Ill get a shirt that says spoon engineer.  I usually respond to this worthless question along the lines of " have you used a spoon before they can be tricky" to which they always look to see if im serious, and always assuming I AM (but im not) they usually say OF COURSE I have.  To which I respond "oh ok, whats the problem again"? at this point they are exasperated and I just tell them to get a new spoon.  Well, one kid who was particularly insistent and said, something is definitely wrong with these spoons this is the third one thats broken on me, these are shoddy! to which I respond "I prefer to think that these spoons usage is based on the competency of the user", I just got a confused look, so I told this kid why dont you just use your spoon from the meal.  Ive rarely seen an epiphany so clearly on an individual but I swear I could hear that light bulb go off.  He got a huge smile, said Thanks! thats genius to which I simply nodded knowingly.