Waiter (Episode 3267)

The Waiter worked at a canalside pub at which the Tilsleys and Barnes stopped during an outing to mark the launch of Des Barnes's boat in 1991. Along with everyone else in the pub's beer garden, the waiter heard a row between Des and his wife Steph after which Des's companions got a taxi back to Weatherfield, leaving Des alone with his boat.

The next day, Steph returned to the pub looking for Des, who hadn't come home the previous night. The waiter told her that Des had sat in his boat looking miserable until after midnight when the pub was closed and that the waiter had gone up to him and told him to cheer up as it may never happen, going on to say that Des and the boat were gone by morning. The waiter wrongly assumed that the Barnes' argument had been about the boat leading Steph to correct him and leave to continue her search elsewhere. As she departed, the waiter muttered to himself that he wouldn't take up sailing if she were his wife.


 * Although the waiter mentions being in the pub during Des and Steph Barnes's row, he does not appear in the episode in question.