Show the ganc give me a glass of water please tho request was made to a waiter behind the marble top lunch counter of a well known restaurant lu the central part ot the city all right sir was the waiters reply 1 I will just as soon as you put your glass down the man looked first at ho empty glass ho held in his hand and then at the waiter then his began to rise at what ho considered an unwarranted piece of impertinence the waller evidently saw the out brust of wrath that was coming 0 o offense meant sir ho hastily explained you fcc its just this way the first tiling a waiter learns and bo learns it by dearly bought experience peri ence too 13 never to take a glas from another persons hand why if lie does tho chances are about even that the glass will fall and bo smashed in tho transfer this Is particularly true it the top of the ta blo or counter happens to bo of marble as this one Is you probably understand der stand that when a waiter breaks anything in a hotel or restaurant lu has to pay for it and you probably now understand why it was that 1 would fill your glass as soon as you put it down ao that I 1 could pick it up myself |