Satire · AIInvented scene and invented people, made with AI. The situation is real; the photograph is not.
Big restaurant. Lunchtime. Twenty empty tables. You are the only person in the room who isn't wearing a uniform.
Behind the bar: seven staff. Seven phones. Reels, TikTok, more reels. Nobody has looked up since you sat down. That was twenty-five minutes ago. You still don't have a menu.
Under every post about foreigners in Bali, the same comment appears: we learned service from expats, we know how to do it now.
Great. This is the lesson, then. Seven people, one customer, zero contact.
