OK, when you're at a dining establishment, and you're walking in between tables and you and a server(nee waitress) reach an intersection at the same time, the customer should ALWAYS have the right of way. We're the guests, so we get privelege.

This differs from a bar/nightclub, where the cocktail server should always receive the right of way, at least as long as you're not bulletproof drunk. Then you enter into this weird netherworld of gravity relativism - whoever is more likely to tumble to the ground receives priority; you, the drunk, listing badly to starboard, or the tray-laden waitress skittering across beer-puddled linoleum.

Mmmmmmm. Beer.