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....I think we all know one or two reasons why it all went wrong....

Stevie D 64......I had no idea that the food would suck....but you can never underestimate how many ways one can mess up bourbon chicken.....I have to say that I have also learned quite a bit from my fellow brothers&sisters here on the forum....all opinions are relevant and welcome as far as I'm concerned....thank you for your input everyone....I'm going to choose not to worry next time if this or a similar situation arises....

Understood...thanks for the clarification.

Great post...it makes things much clearer. Thank you.

Anygun, I wish that it was that simple. If the school is paying for all of their choir to go to the mall, eat at the mall, explain how that is not a school sponsored event......school is footing the bill, 40 kids are in uniform, and believe it or not, eating is an event. I know that this is nit-picking, but I just wanted to be on the safe/legal side of things. I thought that this forum was a place where I could ask for advice from fellow CHLers, not a breeding ground for know-it-alls who want to insult legitimate questions. If I have taken your comments the wrong way, I apologize.

What if the choir performed at the mall after eating? Sounds like a school sponsored event to me.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. My understanding is that the carrying CHL person would at that point have to leave. It's a ridiculous rule, but I think that's how it's supposed to be interpreted.

I don't know how old it is, but it has a bad reputation that I felt was unwarranted. It's actually a pretty nice little mall.

I was at Northwest Mall tonight in Houston, and of course I was carrying. My wife, daughter and I were sitting down having some very substandard Chinese food when a large group of Cy Fair HS students came in. They were all wearing their choir shirts, but they only appeared to have come in to eat. I didn't interpret this as a school event because it was 6pm, and they weren't doing anything but eating. Was this OK? There were no vans or buses outside, so I assumed that they had driven themselves, which in my mind makes this not a school event. Comments please.