Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Regarding time honored methods for dealing with stains, I was at a Thai > restaurant and the waiter spilled some oily substance on my silk blouse. The > restaurant staff felt terrible and the hostess ran to get some seltzer, > which they applied to the spot, assuring me that all would be well. I wasn't > terribly concerned about the blouse because it had been successfully dry > cleaned in such cases before, but I let them put on the seltzer because it > seemed to make them feel better. When I took the silk blouse to the cleaner > he > shook his head sadly saying that the oily spot would have been removable > but the seltzer had ruined the blouse. The cleaner tried to get the seltzer > spot out, but it remained. I had to throw the blouse away. > I guess the lesson from this is, restaurant staff are not experts on stain > removal. Of course, as restaurant staff their greater aim was to project > the image that they had solved the problem they had created, so they got > high marks for that. > Costly for me, though. > > Devon > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
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