restaurant limbo

When your waiter asks you for your order too soon and then disappears for a half hour. You're ready to take your order but mean while they're outside taking a smoke break and chatting with their co-worker... then they're shifts over and you're stuck in this limbo until the next waiter finally notices you've been sitting there forever.

My waitress disappeared and I was in restaurant limbo for the next 15 minutes until I finally got the attention of another waiter.

Foamy the Squirrel brutalized the dumb bitch waiter who disappeared for 30 minutes before he could get his food ordered.