Paid off again

 Had our lunch compted again (see "Speak to a person," August 10/20).  Once again, I chatted with the server, asked her her name, where she was going to school, what she was studying and low and behold, the manager came over and said they were taking care of our entire meal -- drinks, main and dessert!  So, that makes it nearly $200 this restaurant has covered for us.  

"Staff are told to pick one table for us to treat and today it's you guys!" said the manager.  I was flabbergasted.  This was the same Earl's in Dalhousie that had treated us before, but the server was different, so she obviously didn't know they'd just covered a meal for us.  

That's amazing!  So, folks, as my dear late mother used to say, "Speak to a person, dear."  

In chatting with the female server (I was going to say "waitress", but I guess that's over.  I still say "stewardess" instead of "flight attendant", by the way), we started talking about The Beatles and I mentioned that B had played drums with them.  This is a true story!  He was at the London School of Economics in August, 1961, having won a scholarship out of Sir George Williams University in Montreal, and was visiting some cousins in Liverpool.  "Let's go to the Cavern Club," they said.  "There's a great pub band playing, they're called The Quarrymen."  

So off they went.  These cousins were stewardesses for BOAC and gorgeous, so naturally, they were invited to sit with the band.  Over the course of the evening, then-drummer Pete Best got a little too over-refreshed, so George invited B to play a set with them.  So he did!  Back home in Montreal he heard a group on the radio and said, "Hey, I know those guys."  Whenever I tell that story, people are agog.  Just think, if B had stayed around things might have been very different!

The LSE has another famous grad:  Mick Jagger.  B didn't meet him because Mick attended two years later, but Jagger must be smart because you have to be to get into the LSE.  Funny, guess who manages the Stones' money?  Right.