7/6/06
During a recent plane trip my laptop battery died, and thus I was stuck with the seat pocket reading material and my iPod. In this magazine it explained that the airline offered complementary beverage service on 90% of all flights and alcoholic beverages for $4 each. A little further down the page the following statement was made: "employees of the airline are not allowed to serve alcoholic beverages to anyone who appears to be intoxicated." Now I've never been in the situation where this would actually be applied, but how ridiculous is this statement?
Will they serve people as long as they don't "look" intoxicated?
What behavior constitutes the look of being intoxicated? (this may seem silly but think about it.. ever met someone who drank all the time and never had a superdrunk cape?)
If they stop appearing intoxicated, will you serve them again?
If you serve people alcoholic beverages till they are intoxicated should the employee stop serving everyone?
Only one thing beats this...the restaurant I just ate in. They had a sign on the menu "18% tax and gratuity included" 2 inches away from "gratuity not included" I'm just glad I didn't appear to be gratuitous... ;-)
Probably not something I will BLOG again but really how stupid are humans sometimes..
