Quick Fright

Picture it: My friends finally came to visit...

Sitting there, in a nice and quite IHOP, is a young employee, with just enough customers to keep her working, yet not to be stressed. Folding Kid's Menus with her fellow hostess, lightly gossiping, she suspects nothing abnormal.
Out of the corner of her eye, she thinks she saw two customers. She prepares to welcome them, and as she turns to greet the two people, they leap out at her squealing, "HI CAGE!!"

She basically falls over, laughing into her hands.
Her boss looks at her.
She stands and welcomes them, smoothing her shirt.
The employee smiles as she takes them to patio seating.