you accidently break a glass...

[gweilgi]

4 hours ago, Fugu said:

Sorry folks, glassware is expendable materials. No matter the cost. If I put on a "high end" piece of glassware it goes without saying that I cover any risk. What a JOKE.

On that note, there are lines that may be crossed.

Mine was when the cleaner put some of my antique 18th century hand-blown lead glasses into the dishwasher, and they came out blind.  200+ years of surviving all the vagaries of household fate, several years of collecting them, and in one hour, they were ruined.... needless to say, the cleaner did not last long.  

But no, I did not send her a bill.

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, gweilgi said:

Bottles may break.

Use a cask!

And you can use the bag as a pillow when you're done!

1 hour ago, luv2fly said:

We use red solo cups here.  No fuss no muss.

Yeah, but those cups have a bad habit of attracting ping pong balls.

[Fugu]

10 hours ago, gweilgi said:

On that note, there are lines that may be crossed.

Mine was when the cleaner put some of my antique 18th century hand-blown lead glasses into the dishwasher, and they came out blind.  200+ years of surviving all the vagaries of household fate, several years of collecting them, and in one hour, they were ruined.... needless to say, the cleaner did not last long.  

But no, I did not send her a bill.

Sure, clear lines, but two pretty obviously different situations: Your cleaner had been in service, doing a job for you, and as such it's her very duty to care for all things concerned (but may as well have been an issue of proper instructions, gweilgi ... haha ). Had she been invited to drink with you - different stroke .

This here is about family and friends. What I put on the table, I am taking liability for. As much as I don't stick price tags on things, I wouldn't expect my guests to enquire proactively about values and make them - just in case - ask for a "dummy" option. As I said, glassware is "consumables", neither do I collect a fee for the food eaten, the wines drunk, the cigars smoked. What the chap did simply is poor form. Or perhaps, and more likely, done with a clear intent (as others said, there may be more behind the story (if not completely made-up internet junk), we just heard the one side by lady DIL. - and..... why was she drinking wine when pregnant in the first place?!)

Setting the table with a 150-quid glass but not being able to deal with potential breakage shows that the bloke actually couldn't afford such a glass to be used. Poor bragger.

Should my daughter in-law break a glass and offer me to pay it, I would be seriously embarrassed by its reflection upon myself.

[gweilgi]

14 hours ago, Fugu said:

Sure, clear lines, but two pretty obviously different situations: Your cleaner had been in service, doing a job for you, and as such it's her very duty to care for all things concerned (but may as well have been an issue of proper instructions, gweilgi ... haha ). Had she been invited to drink with you - different stroke .

That one was a Jehovah's Witness -- she didn't drink.

Her replacement was a Russian who could have drunk all of us under the table.

14 hours ago, Fugu said:

This here is about family and friends. What I put on the table, I am taking liability for. As much as I don't stick price tags on things, I wouldn't expect my guests to enquire proactively about values and make them - just in case - ask for a "dummy" option. As I said, glassware is "consumables", neither do I collect a fee for the food eaten, the wines drunk, the cigars smoked. What the chap did simply is poor form. Or perhaps, and more likely, done with a clear intent (as others said, there may be more behind the story (if not completely made-up internet junk), we just heard the one side by lady DIL. - and..... why was she drinking wine when pregnant in the first place?!)

Hey, my mother drank when she was pregnant.  Didn't do either me or my brother any harm...

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14 hours ago, Fugu said:

Setting the table with a 150-quid glass but not being able to deal with potential breakage shows that the bloke actually couldn't afford such a glass to be used. Poor bragger.

Should my daughter in-law break a glass and offer me to pay it, I would be seriously embarrassed by its reflection upon myself.

Oh, absolutely.

The same applies to cigars.  Someone drops a smoke and cracks the wrapper, I do not send them a bill.  But alas, I have seen enough of the world and my fellow humans that I can fully believe that this crap does happen.