Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Andy Gerald Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Quebec law to allow restaurants to charge for now shows. Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:10:05 -0400 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <6ad28bbd154e5eaf88d61b4a12175904@www.novabbs.com> Reply-To: andy@yohoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:10:04 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2827751"; posting-host="/uh71vLyz4h/U0o5nb5O7g.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2131 Lines: 17 Hank Rogers wrote: > Dave Smith wrote: >> 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. > > That's wonderful, Officer Dave! > Did you have to flash your badge to get them to relent? > > Or threaten a trashing?