Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Quebec law to allow restaurants to charge for now shows.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:14:41 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 34
Message-ID: <vrkks2$2cl8c$2@dont-email.me>
References: <mTGCP.815075$OrR5.5661@fx18.iad>
 <6ad28bbd154e5eaf88d61b4a12175904@www.novabbs.com>
 <oVXCP.584782$2zn8.396510@fx15.iad> <vrk92e$21qmi$1@dont-email.me>
 <LwiDP.1165976$FVcd.901560@fx10.iad> <vrkcsh$25nki$2@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:14:44 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bd3cf304c74e8779a5f0351b0462a51a";
	logging-data="2512140"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX196yzJwCFEx5Pct/Bp+vVFFHhSeepciTRA="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101
 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20
Cancel-Lock: sha1:ndLWx0Ad5k/WG4cRJJs5sEPFOSY=
In-Reply-To: <vrkcsh$25nki$2@dont-email.me>
Bytes: 2808

Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:49:15 -0400, Dave Smith
> <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-03-21 1:53 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 3/20/2025 1:05 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> I suppose the idea is that if people realize they will lose their
>>>> money if they don't show up they will think twice about simply not
>>>> showing up for the reservation.
>>>>
>>> This is a tad different but doctor's offices sometimes charge $20 (or
>>> so) if you make an appointment and don't show up and don't call to
>>> cancel.  They'll send you a bill in the mail.
>>
>>
>> My wife's gynecologist was going to bill her for a missed appointment.
>> She had to deal with the receptionist who was playing hardball but she
>> eventually relented because there were extenuating circumstances.  The
>> truth is that she did forget about the appointment and never called in
>> time to cancel but there were extenuating circumstances. She had had a
>> detached retina and had laser surgery for it and the after care involved
>> being face down 24/7 for 10 days.  She would have been unable to assume
>> that legs up feet in the stirrups thing. Yes, she could have called but
>> she was so upset about the ordeal she was going through that she forgot
>> about the other appointment.
> 
> I'm not sure what to do with this information.
> 

Save it!  You can use if if you ever have another meltdown and start 
forging Dave posts again.  BTW, those were the best Dave posts EVER!