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"KD" <kdorsey@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I took the afternoon off from
> work and went out to lunch on a downtown patio. The establishment is
> old, has fairly low doorways that clearly don't meet the building
> codes of today. I'm just under six feet tall and barely clear it.
>
> After our meal, my husband went inside to use the facilities while I
> waited for my Visa slip. Coming out of the dark pub into the sunshine,
> he struck his head on the metal mechanism that closes the door. While
> he wasn't knocked out or anything, he got a cut on his head that bled
> a LOT, paramedics were called. Other diners passed me paper napkins to
> apply pressure to the wound. As I'm standing there holding the napkins
> on his head, blood everywhere, the server comes out and waits for me
> to sign my Visa.
>
> The paramedics pronounced him to be OK, the bleeding had mostly
> stopped by the time they got there. Since it was in his hair and no
> one will see it, he declined going to the hospital for stitches. We
> cleaned him up the best we could and took a taxi home.
>
> The establishment called a couple of times to ask about his welfare,
> and said they would send a gift certificate.
>
> We received it today. Maybe I'm out to lunch here (haha!), but I
> really did expect to receive more than $25! Our meal alone was more
> than that, not to mention the unscheduled taxi ride home and spending
> the rest of the afternoon at home instead of doing the other stuff
> we'd planned.
>
> What do you all think? Accept this certificate and call it a day? Or
> should we have expected something better than a $25 gift certificate?
>


Really, he actually got something out of it?     Look where you're going. 
I'm 6'5", I deal with it just fine.