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> On Apr 9, 2014, at 10:23 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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> 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
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