Jim...you make some valid legal points and some valid social ones. I can't comment or add to some of the b!tching about the rooms and the service since I didn't stay, as I live in Austin, but I DO understand the issues that some staid, uptight, 19th-century-mentality families might have about the quintessentially evil Hooters' truck and its nationally recognized association with the delinquency of minors, corruption of young mothers and the overall breakdown of the family unit in America (sorry...sarcasm is an English disease!), but I have some other points of a more realistic and sensible nature...(oooh, btw, since YOU mentioned it and obviously have knowledge aforethought, can you clarify just exactly 'where' and 'when' it IS appropriate for the Hooters' truck, just in case I (er, I mean anyone ...
) want to attend that particular event?)
1) WRT the Texas alcohol commission; since the 'open bar' to which you refer was a FREE bar, does this still mean there were laws being broken? Let me illustrate my question...if I happen to be standing in the parking area and hand my friend a 'free beer' from the trunk of my car, am I breaking the same law? If not, where is the 'line'? Is it legal to give beer but not hard liquor? At what proof point does something actually become 'hard liquor'? Is it legal to give one beer, but not 'many'? How many is 'many'? How about wine? How about wine coolers? How about REALLY strong coffee? What is the legal definition of a 'bar'? I realize that most of the laws covering alcohol distribution in the United States are at best obscure, and more realistically are grounded in puritanical controls harking back to prohibition and the Pilgrim Fathers, so a little clarification would help.
2) You state that '
The hotel may have acted a little abrasive '. In light of the fact that we have already bemoaned the breakdown of the American family unit and laid the blame clearly and most obviously at Hooters' decadent door, let me also take up the cudgel of 'the breakdown of the American education system' with a minor correctional note, if I may. I believe you meant to say '
The hotel may have acted a little abrasiveLY ' Abrasively, describing HOW the hotel acted, and thus qualifying the verb, should be an ADVERB (abrasively), not an ADJECTIVE (abrasive)...but I digress...
from all that has been implied in this and other threads, admitting that '
The hotel may have acted a little abrasiveLY ' would seem to be a little like saying '
Josef Stalin was not a nice man ' !!!
3) WRT your generous offer (NO sarcasm!) of the use of the ballroom for the 'social event', you did at least admit that it is not as good as sitting in the parking lot with a cold one, but, in all honesty, that is the ONLY reason I (and I suspect a lot of other folks) actually come to this event...SO THAT WE CAN SIT IN THE CAR PARK, WITH OUR FRIENDS (NEW AND OLD), NEXT TO OUR CARS AND EVERYONE ELSE'S, AND DRINK BEER WHILE IDLY BOASTING ABOUT HORSEPOWER AND PAINTJOBS. The ballroom (decorated in black & white checkered bunting notwithstanding) just won't cut it...
.
Glyn
PS, don't you love running a hotel? Be so much easier if you didn't have customers and guests...
. It sometimes must seem you can't please any of the people any of the time.