A five-star hotel restaurant in England decide to weigh kids to see how much they should charge for the buffet meal. If the kid weighs 5 stone he pays 5 lira; if he weighs 10 stone then he pays 10 lira. I'm confused. Who sets the size of the stone? And what the heck is a lira? It sounds like some kind of bug. Anyway, people are really upset about the new pricing policy saying it will ruin the chubby kid's self esteem. (I guess it's really just the parents of the 10 stone kids who are upset.) When confronted, spokesmen for the hotel said something like this: "It's just in fun and the complainers should shut-up and get a life." Linda read this story too and told me about a place in Philadelphia that had a huge lunch buffet. There was a giant old fashioned scale at the hostess stand. You had your choice of weighing and paying per pound of body weight or a set price for the lunch spread. It's really a great idea. At 5 pounds, I could eat until I was stuffed for just a few pennies.
