Originally Posted by emcee
See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them. - Jerry Seinfeld 
^ That's what I love about Seinfeld. There's almost always something that happens in life that can be related to that show. I remember that scene. It was one of many classics.
Regarding the OP, they would have run into a lot of trouble with me if they had tried to pull something like that under the scenario described. I'm glad it worked out for the OP.