Drinking in a pub on your own

[Vapin' Joe]

True ....

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Oh my God, here comes the pub bore...

 

[MarkF]

I do it all the time in Spain but not at home, but there the bars have everything I want, not just the beer, but newspapers, TV and ready food too. The pubs near me don't, which is a good thing..........

 

[ColinJ]

Your privelege of course, but there are lots of reasons. Social interaction if you've been alone all day; chance encounters with the other sex (); draught bitter; relieving cabin fever by just being somewhere different; stretching your legs; scampi fries () etc

I am alone all day, (nearly) every day and I have been for over 12 years!

I was never into chance encounters with women (or men, before someone chips in with that!). Oh, there was one such encounter 37 years ago (with a woman) and it was very nice but I won't say any more about that ... These days I am not even into deliberate encounters!

Draught bitter would be a good reason, but I don't drink alcohol any more.

Cabin fever curing and leg stretching are what my bikes are used for!

Pub food once in a while, but only in company. I went for a pub veggie burger/fries/coffee with my sister at the weekend but will wait until I next have company to do it again.

The big test for me would be to cut me off from the Internet; I think without it I would really start to struggle. CycleChat and other such sites (partly) fill the gap that real life left behind.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Selfless!

I'm trying to keep him to the 14 units per week limit ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Oh my God, here comes the pub bore...

Yeah, he's pretty rough ....

 

[Aperitif]

I'm trying to keep him to the 14 units per week limit ....

How can the dog afford the grog. A whippet round?

 

[tyred]

I have never felt uncomfortable or self conscious on my own. In my drinking days if there was a band playing in a pub that I particularly wanted to listen to I would make a point of going alone so I could hear them without having to have a shouted conversation above the music with someone. The big danger, of course, was attracting the pub bore who was looking for some defenceless soul to hone in on.

It's one of life's mysteries in that if you go looking for a bit of company you will end up alone and if you to be alone with your thoughts, some prat will insist in talking rubbish to you.

Worst case I ever had wasn't in a pub but on the Rathlin island ferry a few years ago. An hour trapped on a tiny ferry with the world's most boring man who insisted in following me around and was in serious danger of "falling" overboard

 

[subaqua]

I like sitting in the red lion in leytonstone with the evening standard and having a pint or 2 of Sharps Cornish coaster. A weak beer that tastes lovely.

 

[User169]

After reading this thread, I had to have a wee swifticle on the way home to cheer myself up!

 

[Hyslop]

It's one of life's mysteries in that if you go looking for a bit of company you will end up alone and if you to be alone with your thoughts, some prat will insist in talking rubbish to you.

Worst case I ever had wasn't in a pub but on the Rathlin island ferry a few years ago. An hour trapped on a tiny ferry with the world's most boring man who insisted in following me around and was in serious danger of "falling" overboard

Oh how I know what you mean.Before Christmas I was engaged in conversation by someone whom I suddenly realized,with horror,had been the class bore at school.I hadn't recognized him, but all of a sudden,the awful reality hit me.Now a beer bore,I traversed the world with him, listening to tales of beers drunk in far flung places such as Manchester ,Lincoln etc.I stuck my hands in my pockets so as not to punch him and then endured a "lesson" on the best lawnmowers of all time!All the while,my other old friends from school stood grinning at the end of the bar.S**s, the lot of them-and next Christmas,its their turn.

 

[ColinJ]

I like sitting in the red lion in leytonstone with the evening standard and having a pint or 2 of Sharps Cornish coaster. A weak beer that tastes lovely.

Oops, Internet Error #2,348: Telling an entire world's worth of pub bores exactly where to find you!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Being a tight wad i prefer to be in a pub alone. That way i don't have to buy anyone a drink.
I don't even like buying myself one it's that expensive!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Nothing at all wrong with it, though I tend to do my drinking alone when I'm away on business.


Actually, I've got a book I want to get into, and I really fancy a pint of Old Original.... Hmmmm.....

Pint. A Kindle. No interuptions.

My idea of bliss.

 

[subaqua]

Oops, Internet Error #2,348: Telling an entire world's worth of pub bores exactly where to find you!

I didn't say where in the red lion though. And there are a few people that sit and do the same. Plus I look a bit scary !

 

[Subotai72]

I have never felt uncomfortable or self conscious on my own. In my drinking days if there was a band playing in a pub that I particularly wanted to listen to I would make a point of going alone so I could hear them without having to have a shouted conversation above the music with someone. The big danger, of course, was attracting the pub bore who was looking for some defenceless soul to hone in on.

I like going for a quiet pint now and again on my own but I have a terrible habit of attracting the Pub Bore with alarming regularity. I must have a sign on me or give off an idiot pherenome. It kind of ruins the point of going in the first place