The next time you’re sitting at your favorite restaurant, take a moment to remind yourself that not so long ago you wouldn’t have had the pleasure of sitting down and having food brought to you unless you were some sort of royalty. In fact the modern restaurant as we know it wasn’t even invented until the 1700s in France. Which means as few as a couple hundred years ago we as humans were not afforded such luxuries in many parts of the world.

I recently overheard a man telling his friend that he sent his meal back 3 times the previous night at his local Denny’s because they just couldn’t get it right. Anything short of them brining you something completely different than what you ordered being sent back at Denny’s earns yourself a giant “go fuck yourself” in my book. The next time you sit down for even the cheapest of meals, be glad you didn’t have to go out and kill it yourself.