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Skriven 2007-02-27 13:59:42 av Richard Fallstrom (16150.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: My first convention (and I met JMS!!!)
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In article <0001HW.C209D2E10161F7C2F0182648@news.verizon.net>, Amy
Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:

> >> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:56:23 -0500, Richard Fallstrom wrote
> (in article <270220070756230663%rick.fallstrom@donobi.net>):
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> > In article <1172575172.033194.257630@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
> > <jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote:
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> >> On Feb 25, 4:35 am, m...@corestore.org wrote:
> >>> Same con was where I 'met' JMS informally for the first time... he =
was
> >>> in front of me in the queue, lining up for a plate of chips (fries)
> >>> like any other mensch. Didn't say anything as he didn't look exactl=
y
> >>> happy; hardly surprising as the whole Claudia thing was in full swi=
ng.
> >>> Was nice that the (typically polite) British fans gave him his spac=
e
> >>> and didn't hassle him, I thought.
> >>>=20
> >>=20
> >> I actually remember that day.  I'd flown into London the day before
> >> going to Blackpool, was jet lagged and didn't get any sleep...came t=
o
> >> Blackpool, figured I'd get some sleep that night only to discover a
> >> fax from Doug with the article in Variety saying that Claudia was
> >> leaving the show, which was the first we'd heard of it.  So there wa=
s
> >> no sleep THAT night either...also was on the phone through the day a=
nd
> >> evening and found there was little to no room service.
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> >> So the next day, with 3 days of no sleep and 24 hours with no food, =
I
> >> had to skip breakfast to keep dealing with the Claudia situation, th=
en
> >> when I went to get lunch there was a situation in the dealer's room
> >> with some counterfeit merchandise, and I had one shot for food, my
> >> first in almost two days...just half an hour between panels.
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> >> I first went into the restaurant and told the waitresst that I had
> >> just half an hour and needed food desperately, I was shaking and fai=
nt
> >> from lack of food.  She said she could rustle up a hamburger fast.  =
I
> >> said fine, that and a salad.  20 minutes goes by.  No food.  She
> >> forgot to put the order in.  I tell her to cancel the hamburger, jus=
t
> >> bring me a bowl of soup, anything to keep from falling over.  Ten mo=
re
> >> minutes go by and now, just as I have to leave, she finally comes ov=
er
> >> with a  half-cooked hamburger that was still cold inside, having
> >> decided that I should have that instead of the soup without even
> >> checking back.  Meaning that I got nothing.  I was furious, said som=
e
> >> unhappy things, shoved it back and walked out...going over to the li=
ne
> >> to get some fish and chips to eat as I walked to the panel.
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> >> So yeah, I'm not at all surprised I looked rather unhappy at that
> >> moment.
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> >> jms
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> > One thing I have noticed is nothing gets faster service than waving a
> > $20 bill and saying "You'll get this if my food is here and well cook=
ed
> > in 10 minutes." In the UK IU think a =C3=82=C2=A310 note would do the=
 same.<<
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> I'd guess not.  There is this impression of Americans in Europe -- and =
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> seen it firsthand in the UK -- as being people who like to come in and =
wave a=20
> lot of money around, expecting preferential treatment for it.  That's w=
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> it's always good to find out about local customs such as tipping before=
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> anywhere.
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> I'll never forget one of my first meals in Scotland.  I was at the Isle=
 of=20
> Mull Hotel in Craignure, and after being served dinner in their hotel d=
ining=20
> room, I left a tip, and went back up to my room.  The next morning, I w=
ent to=20
> the front desk to check out (I was on my way to another part of the isl=
and,=20
> where I was staying the bulk of my time there).  The woman at the desk =
handed=20
> me some money, and said, "Here you go, dearie -- you left this on the t=
able=20
> last night."  See, you generally do not tip the waitress when it's your=
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> hotel's dining room.  Which she explained to me after I tried to press =
her to=20
> take the money and give it to the waitress.  I also learned about how m=
uch to=20
> tip in pubs as compared to restaurants, and in one particular pub, I wa=
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> _dying_ to tip more because the waiter had been so sweet, but my compan=
ion (a=20
> local) assured me that it would only be seen as insulting and bizarre t=
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> leave what I'd consider a good tip in the US.
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> Amy

Thanks, I didn't know that.

Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
=2E
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