Date:  Thu, 14 Dec 1995 13:14:39 EST

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: pop and soda



Well, yes, but...



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Here's an interesting variant. At the office Xmas party yesterday,

one of the people I was sitting with asked the waiter for "a soda."

He went away, and came back in a minute with a glass of plain club

soda. She was annoyed, because she wanted Sprite. (They look the same,

so she took a sip before realizing the error.) It was sorted out,

but I find it interesting that the waiter assumed that "a soda" was

plain soda water; I think my co-worker expected him to ask her what

kind.



Vicki Rosenzweig

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...if was basically a bartender, it might be understandable. After all, if

you ask for a scotch and soda, you expect him to siphon in some seltzer or

club soda without asking whether you wanted Sprite, root beer, orange, ...



Larry