at the bar 2023

Went in the back to smoke and came bank into the bar and the whole place smells like my shirty weed

can't stop drinking Rattler cider, every bar should sell it.

genius with a Bluetooth speaker playing “oh Shiela”

I can’t believe there was a time in my life when I wanted pot (sorry that’s what I call it) to be legal. That nauseating smell and dog shit are the banes of my existence.

Dogs shitting in a bar is a bridge too far tbh

was gonna say

The best time to go to the bra is when it’s raining

I wanna know

Have you ever seen the bra

Dixie chicks come on and old man (not me) starts playing snare with his hand on the bar

There is no punishment harsh enough for bar drummers.

No shame, she’s going to town on those wings and especially that dressing whoo

^ I apologize , this is a terrible post

Bartnderi trained to ask for another when current drink is 2/3 done

This bartender knows all my moves and never gives me a buyback — I’ve met my match?

This bartender knows all my moves and never gives me a buyback — I’ve met my match?

At the very least we’re united against this awful live performer in the corner

;_; that's *me* in the corner ;_;

Barback is guy fieri for Halloween

spaces out while staring at the sun reflecting off of buildings across the street

OK, this was a weird one.

I was at a bowling alley bar in a small WI town. It was packed and the bartenders were very busy. I had ordered a brandy old-fashioned, as one does in WI. I got up to go the bathroom, leaving a coaster on top of my 1/3-finished drink.

I came back and my drink was gone. I caught the bartender's eye and they said "you didn't like my old-fashioned" and I said "I barely got to taste it, now it's gone." They said, "you put a coaster on it and left, that means you were done."

This is when I felt like I was in bizarro land (even more than small town WI is already bizarro land.) I told the bartenders (another had joined in the conversation at this point) that at basically every bar I had ever been to, leaving a coaster on your drink at the bar means "I'm coming back" when you go to pee, smoke, play the jukebox, whatever. They claimed to not know this tradition and assert that the opposite was true. I even got some other people in the crowd, described the situation, and they all agreed that coaster = coming back.

The bartender did make me another drink, which was nice and cool, and no one was pissed off, but it was the weirdest moment of bartender interaction I have had in years. Has any other ilxor barfly experienced this complete flipping of bar reality?

how old was this bartender? I’ve always thought the signals that you were coming back were coaster over drink, chair tipped forward and leaning on the bar if the chair and bar work like that, drink left closer to the customer edge.
the coaster one is probably the most obvious and it feels like they didn’t think about it and justified their actions in a weird way after the fact

I came to bartending from a purely theoretical/cocktail science background and had to learn the practical/CSR side on the fly, and your bartender is a pure dumbass.

That's ridiculous.

I've had BARTENDERS put a coaster on MY drink when I left to go to the bathroom and they saw me and knew I was coming back.

a sign that I didn't liket he drink and I am leaving = I pick the drink up and throw it on the floor

how old was this bartender?

Early 30's, I'd say.

"Dumbass" is a good assessment imho

Sounds like weird passive aggressive behavior on the bartenders part

That chair tip-foward move is class, don’t see it very often

*tips hat*

I even put a coaster on my drink when I go to the bathroom at home. Total reflex action.

I don’t have coasters at home, I just turn my glass upside down.

Oh shit, you mean you aren't supposed to carry your stool with you to the bathroom to signal your intention to return?

usually the stool shouldn't appear until once inside the bathroom

I do the reverse of that.

xp

lol Neando, alternately, one should carry their (other) stool back from the bathroom to prove their whereabouts

There's a good ol' boy regular at my place who always takes his beer to the toilet with him, so fucking disgusting.

In my (hard-drinking) town, the coaster leans against the glass, never touching the rim as that's a huge culinary/sanitation no-no.

i like, but have never seen that

“This one’s on me” three mile smile

until the cash runs out…

Why would a bar stock Magners in a can and then put it on tap?

Different price points

Still here fml

*lol

Couple making out at the bar while eating wings with blue cheese vomits

Who walks into a bar on a Sunday at 525 with kids and a stroller

https://i.imgur.com/suqGnuf.jpg

The smallest table

Bartender drinking on the job
Not sure that’s the best idea

Not this early anyway

Starting a campaign of excessive tipping

Bartender refills glass of water w/out asking is solid, imho