AFTER reading Mrs Joan Bunyan's letter (Letters, December 14), I also had a similar experience, but the child price age limit was a much younger one.

It was my son's 18th birthday, so for a treat, his mother and I and our youngest son, who is 13, went for a meal to an Indian restaurant in Longsight Road.

The special was price at £8.95 for adults and £4.50 for children. When I asked for the bill I was surprised to find that I had been charged for four adults. I queried the bill and asked for an explanation.

The waiter was informed that there were only three adults and one child, so why was I being charged for four adults.

He went away with the bill, but came back only to tell me that the bill was correct. So I then asked what age was the child to be to qualify as being a child price. Much to my surprise he said five and under.

Well I paid the bill and shook my head in disbelief and will not be returning to that particular restaurant again.

So by their philosophy, two children can be in the same class in infant school, one can be six and the other five, but yet one is an adult and the other a child.

IAN WALSH, Bentham Close, Mill Hill, Blackburn.

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