Real men spill beer.

[dutifuldaughter]

Having discharged my Mother's Day responsibilities early, I went to the pub with a friend, for a couple of pints and some NTN trivia. I was so focused on the trivia that I didn't pick up on the little drama unfolding in the booth behind us until it was well underway and I heard our very nice waitress say sharply "Go and don't come back." I looked behind me but couldn't see quite what was going on, just a young-ish guy and his gf standing there with stupid smirks on their faces. Then I heard the distinctive sound of pints being overturned - you know, *tap* followed by *glup*. Guy goes out the door, followed by enraged waitress, while other bar staff rush to mop up the mess before it soaks the whole booth. I guess buddy figured that turning them over quietly might not be as obvious as dumping it or throwing it, so the mess would be discovered later after achieving maximum effect.

I asked the waitress afterwards - she said the guy was drunk and they had cut him off, and he was pissed in every sense of the word. The bad part was that he had come in with the gf posing as his caregiver - ordering for him and so on and implying that he had some sort of disability. I guess that was their cunning plan to ensure that they were served. I felt bad for the waitress because she would have been in trouble for refusing the guy if she assumed he was drunk and it turned out he had CP or something; and she would be in trouble for overserving a guy who was already drunk.

I guess it takes a real man to be thrown out of a bar at five o'clock in the afternoon. On Mother's Day.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Pfah, I say.

Come to Wisconsin sometime. You'll see people that pissed up well before 5 pm. Try noon-ish. Or sooner.

We're professional drunks here.

Also, dumping out that beer would be a felony offense here.

[blas]

My coworkers and I have gotten trashed before 10 am before....

In my defense, we do work night shift....

[dutifuldaughter]

Oh, I'm not at all opposed to being pissed as a newt before 5 pm. Have done it myself (though not too lately ...) and with no good excuse like night shift, either. But damn I am opposed to the wastage of good beer, and the harassment of capable staffers.

And Irv, I wouldn't have to go too far afield to find the same and worse even in this town, but it was just strange in my sleepy little local, which enjoys a demographic of boring middle-aged people like myself. Generally our only excitement there is a regular patron who has Tourette's syndrome and occasionally barks like a dog. But since he is a regular it's only exciting when you hear him the first time - before you work out that it is a patron and not a pit bull.

[mikoyan29]

It's only a misdeneanor if it's Bud.

[infinitemonkies]

I'm a night shift worker too.

It's happened a few times where I'll pop over to the booze depository right when they open. I'll be walking back to my apartment with a case of beer, and someone, often a resident in my building, will make the comment: "Breakfast of champions, huh?"

My reply: "Most important meal of the day."





Also it's amusing to watch my bleary-eyed neighbors drag themselves off to work at 8am while I'm on my balcony, drinking a beer and barbecuing a steak.

[Midnight_Angel]

It's only a misdeneanor if it's Bud.

Umm... I thought we were talking beer?

SCNR