Hands to yourself until all drinks are off the tray
I'm sure many many servers have had to deal with customers who'd just reach for the tray to grab the drinks, most times it's not even their drinks that they grab and start spreading it out on their tables, so we have to take the drinks back and hand over their drinks. After steadying the tray so the drinks don't end up a sticky mess on the floor, than we have the zombie kids who will immediately grab reach for the tray, regardless of if you have a proper hold on it cause they just need more caffeine.
1. They ordered several sodas, 1 alcoholic drinks and 3 waters. As soon as I set the tray down on the small open corner of the table, mom immediately starts grabbing other customers drinks and places it in front of her kids, I stop her and take the drinks back saying kindly "sorry ma'am but that's not your drink this is," while handing her what she ordered. She just rolls her eyes like I slapped her hand away.
2. I'm announcing the drinks and I get cut off with "IS THAT MY DRINK, WHO ORDERED A COKE" and "WHERE'S MY DRINK?" All which I was clearly announcing, so I just place down and than walk away, so I don't blow my lid from the kids screaming and getting a migraine.
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Dropping off drinks and I see out the corner of my eye, a kid grabs a random drink off the tray and is about to take a sip, I stop him and his dad takes the drink away, handing it back to me and I hand over the kid's drink instead. Kid grumbles "I still could've had that drink," yeah than complain "ugh that's not what I ordered."
4. Happened earlier when we opened, I have several kids drinks 2 lemonade and Sprite, along with 3 waters and a ginger beer for 1 of the 2 adults with them. Kids sees the fancy non alcoholic glass for the ginger beer and immediately screams "I CALL THE BIG CUP," before charging for me and trying all at ones to grab the glass off the tray, I jump into mother bird mode and shield the drinks with my hands saying firmly "NO NO NO." Does the dad do anything to stop them, nope he just stands there laughing the entire time, I just walked away shaking my head
Edit: 5. Had a tray of drinks and several champagne glasses of mimosa, the table were I think 5 people and I had already dropped off their drinks, when the guy grabs the water off the tray just as I was lifting it and the champagne glasses tipped right over spilled onto me before shattering on the floor. I'm covered in mimosa and they are like "OMG I'm sorry, I didn't see you were lifting up the tray," my coworker comes over to sweep up the mess and is calling a porter to mop up the liquor. Before telling me to go dry myself off, not 5 minutes later comes and tells me as soon as I walked away the customers were laughing and mocking me for spilling the drinks on myself, I was pissed and the next time I had to drop off their drinks, I just set them down and let them figure out which drinks were theirs between the Millerlite, Coorslight, and Doxx 201