Please fire me. I asked the head waiter why there was an apple in the lemon basket, in case we had...

Please fire me.  I asked the head waiter why there was an apple in the lemon basket, in case we had some new drink I hadn’t heard of that is supposed to be served with a slice of apple or something. After a 10-minute rant about all the different places you could place an apple, he finally proposes that I ask the apple itself why it is laying in the lemon basket.