Sir James Matthew Barrie

The Inconsiderate Waiter Sir James Matthew Barrie

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How would you feel if your social position demands you to behave one way and your conscience asks you to behave in another way? When you are so conditioned by the social norms that you fail to recognize the faults in your actions eventhough your conscience pulls you back most of the time. This is a story of a person who faces that dilemma.

Quote: It is not correct taste to know the name of a club waiter, so I must apologise for knowing William's, and still more for not forgetting it. If, again, to speak of a waiter is bad form, to speak bitterly is the comic degree of it. But William has disappointed me sorely. There were years when I would defer dining several minutes that he might wait on me.