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[Christi Redeker]

> Tibor wrote:
>    I pay off-board, and bring my own food: then the cook brings out two
>    bowls of stuff that I CAN eat, and says "Here, I cooked this for 
>    you".  Now I have to find someone to take my feast fee.  
>
> Ras asked:
>   Why do you do that? Did it ever occur to you that the dishes presented to you
>   were, as it were, a "GIFT" given to you out of respect for your person? :-)
> 
> And Tibor replied:
>
> ... a gift is given with ones own money.  When the cook is spending
> feast funds on me, they are spending everyone's money.  Except mine.  While
> I appreciate that, I never want to freeload.

Tibor, dear,

I've never yet cooked a feast that I didn't spend more of my own money on 
than if I were having a private dinner party for a dozen people.  I'd bet 
that the cook who offered you special dishes did so because he/she knew
you and wanted to do something nice for you.  (In case y'all on the list
didn't know it, Tibor is a -very- pleasant and hardworking gentleman.)
I'd also assume that it was a personal gift and just say thank you and
eat up.

The idea of Tibor "freeloading" is for to guffaw at.

Elaina
 

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