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On 6/4/2009 4:22 PM, KD wrote:
> 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?
> 


He hit his head on the door closer? What is he, 7 feet tall?

Don't be another god-damned suer. There are too many of this species 
of slime wandering around, looking for easy money. Your husband made 
a mistake and whacked his head. Chalk it down to experience, and 
tell him to be more careful about his head in future. But don't go 
for the lure of easy money. It's tacky. It's downright American, and 
nobody wants to be accused of that.

-Al-