News cycles are getting shorter and shorter, so I’m posting this quick before we find out that Dayna Morales is really Mother Teresa in disguise, thus causing me to retract everything I’m about to say here:

It’s been in the news: Dayna Morales is the food server at the restaurant in New Jersey who didn’t get tipped after serving a meal because she was gay. She posted the hateful event on Facebook, it went viral, she made the news, and money rolled in, along with shock and sympathy that people could be so cruel.

And then the people who actually ate the meal proved with a credit card statement that they had, in fact, tipped her, had written no such thing, and wouldn’t have cared that she was a lesbian even if they’d known, which begs the sidebar question: how the hell do you know your food server is gay unless she tells you?

Oh.

The Internet is a great place for leaping to conclusions. As far it looks now, it’s also a great place to get real sympathy for faux injustice. I send a fervent ‘thank you’ to Ms. Morales for shooting the “I fake an injustice and then make a lot of money” industry in the ear. Sadly, her own father crawled out on the limb with her by loudly proclaiming his pride for her. I haven’t seen word about how he’s feeling now.

I’ll come back and update when it’s proven that the family faked the credit card statement and they’re really founding members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Because the Internet’s fun that way.

© E. Stocking Evans 2013