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Originally Posted by MTVN
Not his place to refuse her service when he knows none of the details, would be a different story if she was off her face drunk but she was only having a small glass with a meal, won't do any harm
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..To be honest that was my first thoughts as well Matt, unless she was 'obviously under the influence' when she tried to order the glass of wine..or then went on to order a second/third etc then it wasn't his judgement to make on one glass of wine...but I think it's probably a case of 'damned if you do and damned if you don't' because whether it should be the case or not, people do judge on pregnant woman smoking/drinking..I remember myself once seeing a heavily pregnant young lady smoking in the street and it just looked so wrong and I didn't feel comfortable with it at all..so it does attract judgement...
..if he had served her the wine, he could have felt that other customers in the bar wouldn't feel comfortable to be there and that it would cause them to 'judge' the bar itself as somewhere they would stop going to and that might have had a bearing on his decision....and yes, he could maybe have discreetly voiced his concerns to her and said that he would serve her this one glass of wine but only one because of how he felt...but I think he was quite new and we don't all always do 'the right thing'....so he made a decision and in doing that he upset one customer, perhaps he thought a different decision could have possibly upset much more..so right or wrong, I'm not sure I want to criticise or judge him either...maybe just a lack of communication all round but I'm not sure why she felt a need to talk to the media rather than to leave it with the communications and apologies she got from the establishment owners....