On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:21:02PM -0600, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > I would attend, but this requires everyone to be 21+, my girlfriend is > not. Would it be possible to pick places a little less.. anal, in the > future? <filter="sarcastic humor"> NO! It is IMPOSSIBLE! How could you ask such a thing?! Um... YEAH! (I like the "anal" adjective you used. Doesn't really fit the problem, but certainly eye-catching.) I'm amazed that your girlfriend would be willing to listen to a bunch of old-farts talk about tech stuff all night. > Or has this been brought up before? Are people <21 not welcome at the > beer meetings? There is an implied "bier trinken" involved. Perhaps we should call it the TCLUG "Soda" meeting. More appropriately for Minnesota, a "Pop" meeting. No, that's way to close to "Poptix Meeting", and we don't to stroke your ego at all. We're not that gracious. > (McGoverns told me on the phone that nobody <21 is allowed 'upstairs', > and nobody <21 is allowed to sit at a table where people are drinking) I'm thinking McGovern's needs an enema. Anyone willing to administer the medicine? Here's the thing. There are some old farts here that could pass for your GF's father/guardian. If said guardian is expected to be there, McGovern's would have little to say about a <21 year old sitting at a table where others are drinking beer. Yes, they have the right to refuse service to whomever they choose for whatever reason. As a general rule, however, if you don't ask for alcoholic drinks, you don't get carded. Think about it from a business point of view. If thirty people want to visit your establishment. Some want to eat, some want to drink, and some want to just sit there, that's 30 patrons. 30 patrons X avg. $7 = $210 That's no little sum of money to shake a stick at. So, resolution. If we don't go "upstairs" and your GF doesn't ask for alcohol, everything should be OK. (That is unless your GF looks 12, in which case there would be some suspicious looks anyway.) If someone does ask, we'll just say that one of the old farts could pose as an Uncle or something. Second suggestion, invent an aging pill. Third suggestion, get another girlfriend! (J/K poptix's girlfriend) -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020418/15a5ef8f/attachment.pgp