Puzzler of the week

[Scott MacLean]

This week's puzzler:

There's a fancy French restaurant cafe called Cafe Pretension. They had started a new promotion. On their anniversary, a married couple purchasing an entree at full price would get the second entree free. The promotion turned out to be a huge success.

Of course, the restaurant required diners to bring some proof of the date of their anniversary to receive the discount.

One Wednesday night a waiter came to Francois, the owner, and said, 'Boss, that couple over there is claiming that today is their anniversary, but they don't have any proof.'

Francois went over and introduced himself and engaged in a little tete-a-tete with them. Francois asked the woman, 'Tell me a little bit about your wedding day.' She said, 'It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the birds were chirping as I opened my window to prepare to get ready for my wedding. I saw the flowers in bloom. It was spectacular.' She goes on to explain to Francois that today was their 28th wedding anniversary.

Francois says, 'How charming! But, unfortunately, you do not qualify. I don't believe that today is your 28th wedding anniversary.' 'In fact,' he says, 'You're a bold face liar!' And he slaps her across the face, spilling her vichyssoise onto her lap.

How did Francois know that today was not their wedding anniversary?

Last week's puzzler:

My son sat patiently in his restaurant seat and waited for service.  After awhile, an attractive looking young lady came over and asked if he would like something to drink.  He replied that he'd like a beer.  Being youthful in feature and appearance, she asks him to produce an ID.  The woman checks his ID and, with no problem, serves him his beer.

Four hours later, he's in the same chair and asks the same server for another beer.  To his surprise, the server again asks for his ID. Not a surprise.  She forgot who he was. He produces the same ID. The server tells him that unfortunately she cannot not serve him alcohol at this time, as it would be illegal for her to do so.

It has nothing to do with closing times or blood alcohol levels.

What's going on here?

Last week's puzzler answer:

George's son was returning from a study trip in China and he was flying from China to America, and when he got on the plane it was his 21st birthday. So the plane takes off, he asks for a beer, the server checks his ID and in fact I could have added she checked his ID and said, "Happy birthday, today's your birthday. But that would have made it too easy. But four hours later when the plane had crossed the international date line George's son lost a day, so he was only 20.

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