crochetbella said:OMG that is horrible!!!!I am so glad your Speedy is ok! Reminds me of when a woman at a restaurant spilled wine on my Khaki/vachetta Coach bag (thank goodness it wasn't my Recital. Something told me not to take it out that night.
). She said can I buy you a drink to "make up for it"? I felt like saying only if it's a $300 drink.
OH jesus I would have killed her. I've got a Coach bag with vachetta like that, and it's so delicate to begin with. Did you say anything to her at all, or did you just grin and think evil thoughts?
I once had a really nice leather Liz Claiborne bag ruined when I leaned against a iron bar fence that had wet paint on it (but no sign saying wet paint!) at a restaurant. They ended up having to pay me full retail value (just over $150 which was a lot for me to have paid for a handbag at that time) because I went to the LC store in Tysons and got them to look up the model number and write me an official letter saying how much it would cost to replace it. The restaurant also paid for my clothes I was wearing (polo shirt, jeans) because dry cleaning couldn't get the paint out. And yes, they also paid for the dry cleaning attempt.
They sure didn't want to pay me money for the ruined bag, but that note from the LC store on official stationary sealed the deal. Of course, that restaurant (Copeland's in Centreville) is now gone, and there's an IHOP there. But the iron bar fence is still there! Ha.
I would have been "Get over here and start cleaning, B****!"
That :censor: had the nerve to go up to DH's boss later when I had left to go to the ladies room and say that I was really "uncool" about the whole thing...it was just an accident. 
I wish I would've showed her "uncool". 
