Drunk entitlement whore!!!!

[Rebel1012]

Had a right one at the club last night...

Im stood at the door checking ID's...handstamps...talking to the smokers and engaging in my hobby of bird watching when an older (35 - 40)well dressed gent comes to the door, he asks nicely how much entry is and i gave my standard reply of "3 quid mate" Now all is well to this point then the suck begins.

WDG - Well dressed guy
Reb - Me

WDG "How Much?"
Reb "3 quid"
WDG "Im local how much for me"
Reb "3 pounds"
WDG " You said free didnt you...your letting me in for free!"
Reb "No, You need to pay 3 pounds is you want to go in"
WDG "Im sure you said Free!!!"
Reb "No i didnt"
WDG "Well how much with my local discount"
Reb "5 pounds"
WDG "I thought you said 3 a minute ago?"
he starts to walk past me to the pay window just inside the door, and says to the girl there "He said it was free for me"
In i go and explain to him he has to pay or he will have to leave....he pays grumbling and he goes on in.

Fade out......

2 hours pass

Im patroling inside now, being the only non smoker i am often asked to swap places for 10 minutes when im on door control....I spot WDG walking across teh dance floor and how he managed to stay upright i have no idea...he is weaving and wobbling all over the shot banging into just about everyone he passes. Im making my way over to help him start his journey home when a bar lad stops me points out the drunk WDM and says he has had a group of girls complaining he was being "impolite and lewd" i say no worries i was on my way to deal with him anyway.

I spot WDM had sat down (or maybe fallen onto) a sofa near the dance floor so i go over give him a pat on the arm to get his attention and inform him it is time for him to leave, he just looks at me funny so i walk to stand in front of him and tell him again it is time to leave, this time it sinks in and he holds his hand out indicating he wants a hand up. Once hes on his feet he says after you and waves to the dance floor, i tell him no after him and point towards the exit. This whole after you no after you went on for about 5 round until i was thinking maybe i will be dragging him out kicking and screaming...he lurches into motion so i follow on close behind him.

He keeps glancing to see if i am walking with him and trys to make a wrong turn into the staff area, at which point i guide him past it...we walk on down the small entry corridor and come to the 90 degree turn where he can see the actual exit. He decides to stop, so i place a hand on his back and attempt to guide him on again like i did with the staff area....when he turns round and shouts "dont touch me"

Reb "keep walking and there is no need for me to touch you"
WDG "its rude to push"
At this point he is trying to stare me down so i tell him "you need to leave now"
WDG "Dotn push me"
Reb "look mate, you have 2 choices...you can walk out or be thrown out its all the same to me"
WDG "Whos going to thorw me out"
Reb "Me"
At this point he takes a step back and looks me up and down so i repeat "walk out or be thrown out, you choose"

He decides to walk out slowely, at which point i tell the people at the door not to let him back in....when he gets about 10meters away he decides to turn round and shout "Im local, We will meet again"
I shrug, the AM at the door shrugs and the person who i have swapped with so they can have a smoke shrugs......

I go back to work dissappointed...i was sure when he was sizing me up and weighing his chances he was going to try it...i was ready for it if he did mind......but its terrible to waste an adrenalin high and it takes a good 10 minutes or so to wear off!!!

Oh well at least it was a quiet night

[Nyoibo]

Forget pushing, there's nothing ruder than wasting an adrenalin high.

[Andara Bledin]

Oooh... he's local.

Yeah, and? I'm willing to bet that so are most of the rest of the patrons.

^-.-^

[GuardingYourLife]

What's a quid? The British monetary system hurts my head lol.

[Caffienated_Caramel]

A quid is a pound

Like how Americans say a buck instead of a dollar.

[fireheart]

Honestly, why is it that people pull the "I'm a local" card whenever they hit a pub/club? It almost seems like those sort of things are tourist only in those cases

[Jester]

To be fair, in tourist towns (such as mine), oftentimes locals DO pay a different rate, or get a discount, as tourist towns are often expensive to live in, and gives locals a reason to become regulars at various places.

That being said, there are plenty of locals here (and other tourist towns, I imagine) that think that "being a local" gives them all kinds of special privileges.

It doesn't.

My favorite example of this is a story I've told here before about a patron at The Bar who was a total dickwad, and got beyond rude with me, at which point I got the manager involved. Without telling the whole story again, let me just reiterate my favorite part of the conversation between Dickwad and Rockin' Manager.

RM (after listening to DW's side of the story): "And what part of that makes you think you can abuse my bartender?"
DW: "I live here!"
RM: "I love it when people say that. Because it doesn't mean anything!"

And then she threw him out. AND banned him. Classic.

[Argus]

DW: "I live here!"
RM: "I love it when people say that. Because it doesn't mean anything!"

And then she threw him out. AND banned him. Classic.

But it does mean something.

It means that a banning is meaningful for more than a week.

[Andara Bledin]

To be fair, in tourist towns (such as mine), oftentimes locals DO pay a different rate, or get a discount, as tourist towns are often expensive to live in, and gives locals a reason to become regulars at various places.

If the entrance fee were more than 3 quid, I'd think he wasn't just an EW tightwad, but once he didn't accept the answer he got, he went straight into douchemonkey territory.

^-.-^

[Jester]

Andara, no question dude was a douchemonkey. I was merely saying that his initial expectation of a reduced rate as a local may have been justified, depending on how they do things in Rebel's town. If said town does offer local discounts, then his behavior would also be explainable.

Mind you, that does not in any way excuse his later douchmonkery...just commenting on why someone may have expected a lower rate in certain places.

[Rebel1012]

Not a real touristy sorta place here, its a fair sized town which has a good uni in it, students are out of season at the moment though so its almost all locals we have in at the moment anyways

[dalesys]

Not a real touristy sorta place here, its a fair sized town which has a good uni in it, students are out of season at the moment though so its almost all locals we have in at the moment anyways

Oh! Oh! you have a season for uni students? What's the bag limit?

[Rebel1012]

no bag limit...shoot as many as u like

[Crab]

What's a quid? The British monetary system hurts my head lol.

It's not like we have shillings or farthings any more... or guineas come to that. Hundred pence to the pound, that's it. We don't even have special names for any of them! (I'm looking at YOU, quarter. And nickel. And dime!)

[EricKei]

At least "quarter" (technically it's "quarter dollar") is exactly what it says on the tin. Nickels used to contain that metal at one point, I believe; I'm not sure if they still do. Dimes....er, no idea. >_<

I am, however, on the side of the people who want to get rid of pennies here altogether. What other entity, save for The Government, could think that it is a good idea to continue actively minting a coin whose production cost exceeds it face value?! People only seem to save those for the coin machines or banks, anyway.