Working as a server is a true deep dive into the dredges of human nature. How people act when they're hungry says a lot about their personality, and the conversations that unfold during an intimate meal are often better suited for a therapy session or confession booth than a Buffalo Wild Wings.

Anyone who has worked as a server undoubtedly has a story or two about awkward customers or weird table dynamics. But there are some moments that transcend the rest and enter a hall of fame of "WTF is happening."

In a popular Reddit thread, waiters and waitresses share the most memorable times they checked on the table at the wrong moment, and the cringe seeps through the entire world wide web.

1. jetsjane saw a throuple explode.

As I approached the table, a lady brushed me out of the way and sat down next to the couple there. The couple were obviously on a date. The lady turns to the woman on the date and said, "So, I'm his wife. Who the f*ck are you?"

2. faster_than_sound noped the hell out of there.

Guy and girlfriend come into our restaurant for dinner. Guy then secretly tells me he has a ring and wants to propose to her and wants it to be all special. I was to wait until a specific time and come and ask if the table "needed anything else" and them he would say "I do. I need her." And then get down on his knee, etc. etc.

I thought it was cheesy, but hey I wanted to help the guy out and be a part of something like that, so I said I'd do it.

I get to the table and ask the question, he then pops THE question and she burst into tears. But not good happy tears. She then blurts out that she wants to break up and that she was in love another guy, apparently a friend of his.

I just slowly backed away from the table as his entire world came crashing down on him.

3. YouCompreteMe's roommate split the bill.

My roommate is a bartender and he came up to a couple seated at the bar right when the man handed his wife divorce papers.

4. roseanna777 hopes the garlic bread helped.

I set down a plate of garlic bread as a girl was turning down a marriage proposal.

"I... I... I'm sorry. I just can't marry you. Its-"

"Alright! Who's ready for some breadsticks!?"

5. Chewforwarda walked in on some mama's boy issues.

Early 2000, I served a couple, as soon as they were seated the guy got a phone call, and proceeded to take the call - it lasted the entire meal. His wife/girlfriend was furious by the time I brought out the dessert, which was when he finally hung up the phone and she said "f*ck you and f*ck your mum, we can't even have one night out!"

6. Colton_B still wants to know what the full scope of the vasectomy drama.

I served a few years back as a first job. One time, going to the table to ask them a question, I hear, "well you got a vasectomy for HER..."

As soon as the lady saw me, she stopped. I've always wondered what the extent of that conversation was.

7. sligmasta has been on all ends of the divorce conversation.

I've been on both sides of this one.

When I was 12 my mom took me and my two younger brothers (7&8) to chili's for dinner. After we ordered our food she started telling us that her and our father had been having a lot of problems, and would be getting a divorce. Just about the time she finishes her spiel about both of them still loving us the food comes to the table and all three of us start crying, my youngest brother bawling his eyes out.

Fast forward 15ish years. I'm waiting tables at your local crab hut, and as I walk out of the kitchen towards my table I see the 4 children at the table start to tear up and cry and the parents avoid eye contact as I set the food down. Really wanted to tell those kids that things would still be ok.

8. Vikings4Breakfast helped a regular grieve.

Not as awkward as it is sad. I've been a server for a while, and one of my regulars was a older couple. They hadn't been to the restaurant for a few months, but the menu changed and we had lost a bunch of regulars. -I'm clueless- About a month ago the husband comes in alone, and I ask him about his wife.

He started crying and told me she died and he was afraid to come in alone. I sat down and hugged him for a while, then grabbed the owner who talked with him over dinner. He stayed 5 hours.

Note to all servers, you don't know what kind of day your customer is having. Be a good human.

9. carmabound tried to perform damage control.

A couple came in and they were arguing already, but once they sat down it got progressively worse and louder.

I felt embarrassed because the table right across from them was celebrating a Birthday.

I rounded up everyone I could find....about 7 of us, and we sang the Happy Birthday song as loud as we all could.

The arguing couple left shortly thereafter...

10. TheUninspiredArtist hopes to never see that man again.

Had an older single guy getting ready to leave so I go up and and cash him out. He was a nice guy and didn't give me any problems but as soon as I got back to his table, he was sitting on the edge of his seat, legs spread with his balls hanging out of his shorts all over the booth, all with a toothy grin while saying "it feels good to finally air out". I dropped the change on his table without saying a word and went back into the kitchen to dry heave in shock.

I bleached and unleashed an entire can of Lysol on that seat after he vacated the premises.

11. joelomite11's manager played a questionable prank on a coworker.

At a restaurant where I used to bartend we had jokester manager. One day she said to a server; "Sarah, I just sat you a table, you'll need a high-chair." So sarah goes to greet her table with a high-chair assuming her party has a small child. When she gets there, she finds three adults, one of whom is a midget.

edit: I guess I should have added that the manager and the waitress were very close friends.

12. I_DUCK_SICK couldn't return to the table.

At 18, having just found my first real job whilst supporting myself through uni, I walked over to a table to ask them if everything was okay with their meals...

As soon as I asked I noticed that one of the guys was wiping away tears, the other had a look on his face I had never encountered before...

"So what you're saying is you thought there was a chance you had HIV but you still fucked me?!"

I didn't know what to do. Backed off, didn't go back.

13. Esleeezy watched the arc of a dysfunctional relationship show itself throughout a single meal.

I walk up to my table, a mom, dad, and son (8yrs old probably). The mom is going nuts. I guess another waiter was walking by with a pepper mill and it fell out of his hand and hit her on the head. Not hard but its not a small thing. Well she's going crazy, I'm trying to figure out whats going on, and the table next to them is laughing at her freaking out. She keeps yelling, 'He hit me! I want to call the cops! He hit me!'.

The waiter is apologizing a shit load but she's not having it. She yells, 'THATS ASSAULT!' and the table next to her that's laughing yells 'No miss that's A PEPPER!'. I lose it! Have to run to the back. I finally get my shit together and come back and the little kid is in hysterics now. The dad has had enough of his wife's sh*t and is threatening to leave if she doesn't calm down. Starts telling his wife 'Do you want me to leave again? Do you want me to go?'

The kid starts bawling and yelling 'No daddy please don't leave again. Mommy act normal! Please stay daddy!'. The lady finally drops the psychotics and finishes her food. We comp everything and they don't leave me sh*t. I really don't blame them cause after they incident I was a ghost. I avoided them like the plague. Poor kid.

14. Smellbag saw a whole drama play out.

I had a table come in for this guys birthday. It was a surprise birthday dinner hosted by his girlfriend, although she didn't realize that 2 of his female 'friends' she had invited were also sleeping with him.

I came over to the table just as one girl stood up and yelled "you bitch" to another and stormed out. The second one threw a drink on the guy and walked out. The girlfriend with tears running down of her face asked of the bill and then exits. I come back to the table with the bill with the guy drenched in wine and 5 of his remaining friends still there in hysterics.

15. OhShtItsMatt watched a man divorce his wife on her birthday.

Outback Steakhouse. Walked up to great the table "Hi folks, how are you?" Guy asks wife for divorce right there. My jaw drops, I walk away from the table. She is sobbing, loud. I go back eventually and they order a full meal. Bloomin' Onion included.

They have a full meal, she sobs then entire time. She has difficulty eating. I sh*t you not, he says its her birthday and wants a dessert for her with a candle. So I had to bring out a Thunder from Down Under with a candle while she's crying uncontrollably.

16. Madbait1 still doesn't know what the fight was about.

I was taking the breakfast order from a couple staying at the hotel, The lady ordered a full English breakfast and I asked how she would like her eggs, her reply "fertilised" she then scowled at her husband, I backed away and ordered her fried eggs.

17. lllola never called the number.

Not in a restaurant, but I used to do weekend gigs catering private parties. We were at a very, very rich guy's house serving drinks and small bites. The men in attendance were all wealthy and middle-aged. The women were all barely legal and many Playboy girls.

I'm actually working my butt off, walking back and forth, back and forth throughout the house, pool area, bar, kitchen. Someone somewhere grabs me by the arm and says "Mr. ___ [the host] needs something. He's in there," and they point at a room down the hall with closed doors. So I walk down, knock, no answer. It's loud outside with music playing and tons of drunk people talking. I knock again. No answer. So I open the doors.

There's Mr. ___ with 3 women in varying degrees of nudeness and fellatio. Coke abounds. Mr. ___ just looks up at me and goes "Hey toots, can you get me another vodka Redbull?" The girls give me this evil look and I say "Okay" and haul a*s back to the bar.

Mr. ___ gave me a $100 tip but made me let him slip it in my skirt's waistband. Later that night while counting my tips, I also found his phone # jotted on it.

Did not call.

18. Mediocre-raptor has a litany of stories.

I used to work at a chain restaurant in my province that was marketing towards being very family friendly; but we were located near the local University, so we got a lot of students from there as well.

One time I caught a guy watching (sound off thank god) furry porn.... (Why?! THERES CHILDREN NEARBY!)

High school kids on a date where it's obvious that it's a fairly new relationship. Walked up as the girl was discussing what their future babies would look like...

Some elderly ladies didn't hear me coming as they were discussing the difference between blowjobs with or without dentures..

That awkward moment when you realize that your regulars are NOT Father & Daughter, but actually boyfriend & girlfriend where Boyfriend insists on being "Daddy".

Edit: Just checked this since last night. Didn't realize people would be interested...

First, I have nothing against furry porn, everyone has different tastes. What I don't like is this situation where little kids can clearly see it.

Second, the dentures thing was just TMI. They don't want to know about my sex life, and I don't want to know about theirs.

Third, I don't care about if she calls him Daddy or the age gap (I'm guessing he's in his 50's, she looked under 25). It was just the "Oh..." moment when I put two and two together when they were being touchy feely.

Fourth, for all the people PMing me about the restaurant and location. I won't divulge that kinda info.

19. billabong2630 ruined the moment.

Not a waiter, but a busser. It was Fathers Day and a new table of two had just sat down. The guy was facing away from me so he couldn't see when I would be coming.

Anyway, I was about to reach their table and fill their glasses with some water (remember, this guy still can't see me) when he suddenly says to his girlfriend, "You ready to make me a daddy tonight?"

Yeah, the look on his face once he realized I was right there was priceless.

20. Bad-Selection has a new greeting with their regulars.

I once approached a couple of our regulars and saw the wife making a hole with her left thumb and pointer (like the "a-okay gesture), then taking her fist and pushing it into that hole and twisting her arm as she opened up her fingers around her arm then violently pushing her fist forward and back.

I showed up to their table, completely stunned, and the wife saw me then quickly covered her face in embarrassment. After a couple moments of awkward silence, she just looked at me and said "That was exactly what you think it was." The two of them and I started laughing and the awkwardness was gone.

The next time they came in the wife held up her fist and cocked and eyebrow at me, and that became how we greeted each other any time we saw each other. It stayed this way until I left that restaurant.

Edit: ...aaand now my highest voted comment on reddit is about fisting

21. KoalaKid101 witnessed a ganja exchange.

Went up to a table of a few younger guys (probably 17) and one older guy (probably 30). I got them their drinks, came back with food and the older guy was handing a giant f*cking bag of weed to these kids underneath the table. Edit: changed a word.

22. nativelementx noped pretty quickly.

walks up to a table to check on them

"...and thats the first time i saw a dead body."

22 waitstaff share the most awkward private conversations they walked into.