i am pissed. the food was good but the waitress assumed we wanted this bullshit "environmentally friendly filtered water" that is $1 a person when we just asked for water. they do this bullshit in europe all the time and i suppose i let my guard down by assuming that a restaurant in America would know better. i pointed this out to the waitress whom very reluctantly took it off the bill. a manager tried justifying this by namedropping a bunch of shitty pretentious restaurants in calgary that also partake in this practice, which didn't really help.
and don't get me started on the scam and the huge lie behind filtered water somehow being more environmentally sound than other forms of water. our society is getting dumber and dumber, less and less critical. only chumps buy bottled water when they live in a society that has clean, fresh, ubiquitous, drinking water. people in the third world must be amazed by how far we go to be wasteful. paying money for something that is free. only in the "first" world.
**update 20may2014**: i now live in Africa, and yes, people here are amazed that north americans pay for water . by the way, i've had better pizza here than anywhere in calgary. 1 star.