Drunken Butler James: How expensive is the Dinner for one is really? – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“The same procedure as every year.” Butler James his mistress Miss Sophie is not to be served only Indian spiced soup, Mulligatawny, haddock from the North sea, chicken and fruit. He must be 90 to the Celebration of their. Birth day is also in the role of the friends of hatch, loaded, but, unfortunately, already died. Of course, it is Miss Sophie, Sir Toby, Admiral von Schneider, Mr. Pommeroy and Mr. Winterbottom individually trigger; with Sherry, white wine, champagne, port wine, and with water from a flower vase. Butler James holding up, even after 15 glasses, especially as Sir Toby wants to get on the scoreboard.

author: Rüdiger Köhn, Economics correspondent, based in Munich, Germany. consequences:

With the increasing loss of control as a result of substantial alcohol consumption can take no more Butler James however, on the inventory a lot of consideration. The tablecloth with the red wine and food stains ruined, the carpet ruined, the chicken is flying low. The emotional and physical damage to the Butlers James may hardly be ergründlich, even if he shout at each Toast with Admiral von Schneider “cheers!”, but especially the Hack painful to beat. The economic damage is to quantify – with 2120 euros, however, is not just low for an evening.

And this is repeated every year, when a few hours before the new year, the 18-minute black-and-white cult sketch “Dinner for One”, in 1963 by the norddeutscher Rundfunk with Freddie Frinton as Butler James and May Warden as Miss Sophie produced the Nation under the spell of draws. The insurer, Allianz, has taken up the matter with national implications and in a claim file of “Dinner for One” by James caused damage is determined. The small stuff is the cleaning of the tablecloth (10 Euro) or the floor with carpet (100 Euro) or the inedible made chicken (10 Euro). Severe the damage, the lying on the ground Tigerfells weighs. Eleven Times James stumbles over the head. The Butler held tin flying plate against the wall, as a gift. The can endure: 0 Euro. But the costs for new Stuff and, if appropriate, a dental regulation would be 2000 euros but in the case of an antique exhibit, such as this high, says the Alliance.

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James Is hired, he must fortunes for the miss as the own damage; the Miss Sophie is wearing. He would work independently as a domestic help or for a Catering Service could be secured, the damage, a business liability insurance, advertises, Europe’s biggest insurer for an appropriate policy.

would not be If because of the intoxicated condition of the Butler. “This is a repeat offender,” says Allianz claims specialist Mirjana Hasdorf-Achatz. “Because, we need to consider from an insurance and legal point of view, to insure the terms on which we him in the future.”