On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 09:44:33 -0700, The Ranger
> wrote:

>On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:15:16 GMT, Bill >
>wrote:
>[snip]
>> If I get extremely poor service...I do not even touch
>> the plate in front of me...I get up and tell anybody
>> who tries to get in my way that their service is bad
>> and I am leaving their food on the table! Under no
>> circumstances would I accept anything else to eat
>> in that restaurant.
>
>If you are *THAT* paranoid, you should crawl back into your hole and
>pull its shadow in with you.
>
>I am curious how often you've pulled this stunt, though, since you
>seem so at ease with it.
>
>The Ranger
>--

Oh, probably four or five times in the last twenty years. One occasion
that comes to mind...I had ordered Swordfish for dinner...they sat the
plate down in front of me...within two seconds my nose alerted me to
the fact that these people were serving me "rotted fish" for dinner.
More precisely, hot rotted fish! There was no way I was going to
sample anything else in this "Tomain Tavern"...ever!

Bill