St Patrick's Day

[customersruinmylife]

I just realised something a few minutes ago.

This year will be the first time ever that I am not working on St Patrick's Day. The last couple of years it was on a school day/night and every year before that I was working in the pub.

I'm not a big drinker at all, but I feel a little obligated to go out and act like everyone else does on St Patrick's Day. I don't even particularly care about St Patrick's day at all, but seeing as I have had to suffer many years of putting up with customers drinking on that day, I feel as though it is my turn to do it.

What do you guys think?

[Mishi]

Do it! It'll be fun, even if you go out for just one drink.

[ArcticChicken]

Don't do it. Most of the people who go out drinking on St. Patrick's day are drunken yahoos. You can go out an get plastered any time you want, do it in the company of people you want to spend time with.

[csquared]

I think you should go out and have a good time. I also think that you know how to behave, so you will not be acting like everyone else.

I would also suggest that you steer clear of the pub. Find some place with a better caliber of customer.

[Redbeard]

Just stay away from your pub, man, or you'll be sucked in to the cycle of insanity

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I'm not a bar person at all. I'd be even less inclined to go out drinking on St. Patrick's Day. You have a higher concentration of people drinking just to get plastered.

That being said, after I get out of work Saturday, I plan to hold a quiet get-together with some old friends Bailey's, Jamesons and Guinness.

[dalesys]

... with some old friends Bailey's, Jamesons and Guinness.

AKA Me, Myself & I.

[PhiSigGirl1988]

Irish Car Bombs, Irv?

CRML, it probably isn't worth it, really. If you choose to do so, however, just stay away from your pub, as was previously stated.

[Seshat]

If you have any friends who won't be working that night (and I know many of your friends are in hospitality and will be), have a St Patrick's Day get together at one of your homes.

If they are working that night, have a St Patrick's Day Recovery the night after; or some 'not on the day' thing.

[SongsOfDragons]

Oh keerist it's on a Saturday... we generally go to our local for our gaming society meeting and lunch on Saturdays...we might have to be there for opening time!

[morgana]

Personally, the 'amateur Irish' annoy me. I'll be home sewing that evening.

You're welcome to join me.

[cashierbex]

This is my first time being legally able to drink, so I might enjoy myself soemwhere. And I took a paid day off to sleep off the rum I will be enjoying.

[customersruinmylife]

Thanks guys. I don't know what I'm going to be doing to be honest. Like I said, this will be the first year since I've legally been allowed to drink that I will not be working. I won't be going out and getting wasted, but I just think I should go out on St Patrick's Day just because I can

Of course, I will be avoiding my pub at all costs.

[KiaKat]

I have to work.

The bar across the street is having "Irish Music" all afternoon, followed by bagpipes in the evening. Given their history of drowning out all possible street noise via horrid amplification, I don't hold high hopes for my sanity post-close.

And I just *know* I'll have a friend or two demanding that I join them for "just a drink." I'll have worked 11 out of the previous 12 days, and have to work both Sunday and Monday. Hell no, I'm not going out.

That being said... having worked it every year, is it something you want to experience from the other side of the bar? In that case, I say go for it.

[Dilorenzo]

It's always nice to not have to work that one hectic day.

Course, I don't go out drinking on Paddy's Day. Did it once back home in Dublin, and have even less inclination to find myself on the Cleveland streets at such a time.

As a friend of mine said - holidays like this are amateur drinking time. Pros take the day off (well, stay home and drink).