[MR] "Their High table"

[Nicole Spaun]

Greetings,

>Based on HRH Logan's letter to the Acorn and to the Merry Rose, it appears
>that the royalty have occasionally asked people to sit at high table who 
>had
>not *planned* on staying for feast. And They did not want people to be
>denied the honor of sitting at high table or to have to scrounge for cash 
>in
>that specific situation.
>

Maybe this is too naive... but when I invite someone, who wasn't going to go 
out for dinner otherwise, to go out to dinner with me- I pay for them.  
ESPECIALLY in a situation where I'm already getting mine for free.  So I 
just don't understand why the burden is on the group putting on the event as 
opposed to the person doing the inviting.  I understand the "but they are 
the Royals" mentality, and that's fair, but if it bothers the Royals that 
their invited guests have to scrounge for money then the royals and their 
guests are the ones who own that problem... not the local group.  To put the 
problem onto the local group is unfairly projecting.  The solution is that 
the Royals should only invite people who are onboard already or do THEIR 
best to ensure their guests don't have to scrounge by paying FOR their 
guests since their guests can't legally be comp'ed.

On a related sidenote, I enjoy serving at feasts and when I do generally I 
don't get a refund back for the feast I paid for... so there's a free meal 
for someone else.  I'm sure other servers do the same.  (Hence why I thought 
it exceptionally rude when one kitchen staff member at an event a while back 
said to the entire serving staff "maybe you'll learn to get your 
reservations in on time now"... rude, wrong, and insulting to our 
generosity).

Just a thought,
~Bianca

~~~~~
Lady Bianca di Bari