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June 29, 2021, 6:19 am
A waitress in Maryland is calling out the guy who played Eugene in Grease for being a “f—king creep” after he went on a rant about her failure to please him by wearing fake eyelashes two shifts in a row.
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Eddie Deezen made a long post to his Facebook begging his friends for advice on what never should have been a situation to begin with.
He explained that he had been going to a local restaurant every Wednesday for months and had, in his mind, developed a rapport of sorts with one of the waitresses. Or rather, he had decided she was a “knockout” and went in just to ogle her, specifically because of her fake lashes.
Once, Deezen said, the waitress wasn’t wearing the fake lashes, so he “was honest.”
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“I told her how nice she was, but I liked her wearing the long fake eyelashes. I went back the next day and she was wearing them,” he wrote. “She was 100% aware that I loved looking at her in the false eyelashes and she always would wear them on Wednesdays, that became our day.”
So Deezen took it as a personal affront when, recently, the waitress wasn’t there on a Wednesday due to a family emergency, so he announced he would be back on Friday—but when Friday came around, she didn’t wear the lashes. And when he followed up by returning on Sunday, she wasn’t wearing them then either.
“The fun spell was over,” he lamented.
In the next breath, he also insisted none of this was sexist because any woman would definitely also keep going to the same restaurant to look at an attractive waiter and if “this same waiter came out one day looking slovenly, unkept, dirty looking…you would be disappointed, right?”
The purpose of Deezen’s post was apparently that he wanted to ask whether he should write the waitress a “letter of explanation” as to why he would no longer be coming into the restaurant and tipping her $20 every time she wore fake lashes.
The answer to his question is clearly a resounding “no”—don’t complain to someone paid to serve you that you won’t be coming into their establishment anymore because you don’t like the way they look. It’s pretty basic common sense.
And just in case it wasn’t clear, the waitress herself, Kara Lashbaugh, wound up seeing Deezen’s post and blasted him on Twitter.
The post drew a ton of support for Lashbaugh and other servers putting up with that kind of behavior, and ultimately cast a negative spotlight on Deezen—who reacted with another, possibly more bizarre Facebook rant.
While he did technically apologize and call his behavior “rude, disgusting, ugly,” and “pure, unadultered [sic] sexism,” he also immediately insisted it was only an issue because Lashbaugh is young and didn’t know how to put him in his place.
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“Any adult, fully grown woman, let’s say maybe 27 or 30, around that age, and older, knows ‘how men can be,’” Deezen wrote, after saying it was worse to “do this” to a 21-year-old rather than a 30 or 40-year-old. “What I did was unjustified, however, I was never once informed by anyone that I was bothering or introverting this girl, in any way.”
“Kind, decent women, women with an ounce of humanity, women with a human heart,” would have simply said informed him they weren’t interested, he said.
Deezen then repeatedly insinuated that Lashbaugh was only putting him on blast for social media clout, and said posting about him on Twitter “made her feel somehow important,” before complaining that he had thought they were friends and insisting he wasn’t a threatening person towards women.
“41 years I lived in LA, not one complaint about my crude, ‘creepy’ behavior was ever made by any waitress or any woman. Zero,” he wrote. “But now I hear there are like a hundred or hundreds of waitresses who found me offensive or ‘creepy.’”
Becaus God forbid men examine their own behavior around women — particularly women whose livelihoods depend on convincing customers to give them tips — rather than waiting to be called out on it…after which they complain about being called out on it.
*First Published: June 29, 2021, 6:19 am
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