Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hank Rogers 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: References: <6ad28bbd154e5eaf88d61b4a12175904@www.novabbs.com> 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: Bytes: 2808 Bruce wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:49:15 -0400, Dave Smith > 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!