G but no T
Having lived for a while in Japan you encounter a lot of jobsworth type behaviour, more through lack of initiative than any malice/stupidity I found. Anyway, I digress. In a posh bar in Tokyo drinking G&Ts. Tonic bottles are quite big so there's always some left in the bottle. After a couple I asked the waiter just to bring the gin and leave the tonic as I had plenty. Also, could he stop bringing nuts and snacks as they too were piling up.

Apparently not. If the menu says G&T then that is what you get. He also said that it was necessary for him to bring me nuts and snacks at the same time.

This happened over 3 or 4 more rounds of drinks to the extent that the table was full of unfinished tonic & partially eaten nuts. It wasn't even a question of price as it was all the same whether with nuts, with tonic or not. Despite every effort to give him back the tonic and nuts each time I was told that it says G&T on the menu and that was what I must have. He was very nice about it though.
(Gusofnavarone always makes a map of france from sarnies, Thu 12 May 2005, 10:31, Reply)