Rob van der Heij wrote: > But *I* was going to drink it. Her task was only to take the money > for my meal...
During my university years, I worked at a restaurant in a state where the drinking age is (and was) 18. Licencing laws stated that minors were not permitted to serve alcohol... but it was deemed okay for an underage person to pour the drinks which were then served by the 'legal' staff. Apparently, when you poured the drink there you were serving to the *tray*, not to a real customer. The service person took the tray to the customer and served the drink. Since the area in which the person who poured the drinks worked looked awfully like a bar, confusion would ensue when a customer got tired of waiting for table service and went to the bar for a drink... Cheers, Vic
