“Looks like you’ll need another plan,” I typed, then turned my phone off and went back to watching Nolan and Piper race between arcade games. The $850 deposit had already been charged and I did not dispute it. What I refused to do was authorize another $1,050 for a dinner my children and I had just been thrown out of. Bellisimo simply required the remaining balance to be paid by the people still sitting at the table. For the first time that evening, Renee discovered that humiliating the person whose card was attached to the reservation had consequences.
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