Hocker, if you ate it you are obligated to pay for it. Your patience does not factor into the obligation. You do however have the right NOT to go there if you don’t like their customer service. Just because you are ready to leave, does NOT mean they have to be ready to serve you. Had you been ready 10 minutes before or 10 minutes after you might not have had this encounter and the owner might have been sitting by the register.
If there is no one to take your money at the register in Walmart and you try to leave without paying for what you want, you better believe you will be spending a night with room and board courtesy of local government.
There are times you just have to take the focus off yourself and just realize that everyone is not there to always serve you when you snap your fingers. Sometimes you just have to wait, just as when you are busy with one child or one client others have to wait. Or if you are on the phone and your Mom wants to talk to you and you tell her “I’m on the phone give me a minute”.
I can hear the frustration and do understand how you must have felt when you are rushed and your hot and bothered, and you have to wait. Even a minute can seem like ten, but maybe bringing it to the CR was not the best choice you could have made. Some things you just have to deal with and accept.