An evening to remember

'Waiter's crime was one of impropriety', says the author

Why did the waiter fall into the swimming pool? Witnesses heard a shout and a splash, and then the cry “Man overboard!” Okay, I made up the last bit, but an “Oh! Oh! Oh!” susurrated through the party. Something had happened, and as Indians, everyone gawped as the poor young lad, shocked into silence and speechless with the cold, tried to find a footing on the pool’s floor. His platter of kebabs floated surreally to the bottom of the pool, there to rest like corpses. Another waiter pulled him out, slipping and sliding. As he stood dripping on the pool