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No Points For You! The People Have Spoken.
You may recall my previous post asking whether I should have claimed Frequent Dining Points for a meal that I did not pay for.
The responses have come in by the pasta bowl full. And your opinion is a decisive “NO.”
To recap, we were invited by visiting out-of-town friends to dinner at one of our favorite local restaurants. The restaurant gives points that can add up to free meals to their “members,” and since our out-of-town hosts would have not had any use for the points, I pondered whether I should have asked our hosts if I could claim them.
As I said in the previous blog, I did not try to claim the points and asked if I should have. About 90% of you agree with my decision. Though almost all of our readers felt there would have been no harm in kindly asking our hosts if they minded my snatching the points (and some of you suggested clever ways of broaching the topic) most of you thought that it was just a wee bit tacky to do so.
And as one of you pointed out in an email, what about the third couple that dined with us? Maybe, the email asked, they were also Frequent Dining members and would have liked the points. (In fact, the third couple, lovely people, are wall plaque members–if you frequent the restaurant I am sure you know what I mean.) Surely they had just as much right to those dining points as Barb and I did. That is just another reason why it was good and fair that I passed up the opportunity to add to my points collection.
If you know us you are probably asking what Barb’s opinion is on the matter. Barb, the best arbiter of all things proper and my guiding light, had a very simple, very direct, one-word online reply: NO.
Man, I am glad I didn’t screw this one up!
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