Pub etiquette- cost of poor manners

[Fnaar]

Mind you, you want to be careful with yer nuts on the bar... you never knaa where others' hands have been...

 

[Markymark]

I find the best approach is to announce my need to be served loudly whilst waving a few £50 notes. Usually the bar staff look at me and mutter "winner" under their breath (I think that's what they're saying) to acknowledge my importance.

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Mind you, you want to be careful with yer nuts on the bar... you never knaa where others' hands have been...

Barmaid on crack blocking bike park.

 

[Drago]

One of the very few advantages of being a very large gentleman with a rather short haircut is that normal mortals of standard stature don't queue jump me.

 

[martint235]

A skilful bar person would slip the local a beer in the middle of pulling pints for the others. I remember when one local was rammed with locals, no so any more - it's empty.

True. My local pubs know my drink and so it's often just there on the bar. This includes pubs I go in maybe twice a year

 

[Profpointy]

Nice story from one of my university pals. Three of them were very much regulars at a particular hostelry, so when one of them popped in to check if he'd left his bag there the previous evening, he was somewhat perturbed that they'd pulled three pints before he'd got to the bar to ask. It was mid-morning and he was on his way to lectures - and on his own. He managed to drink them somehow

 

[Tim Hall]

Youngers IPA No3 was our tipple, same brewery though.(and strangely a dark 'India Pale Ale. )

IPA and No.3 were different things. No.3 came from a hand pump whilst IPA was keg.

 

[raleighnut]

IPA and No.3 were different things. No.3 came from a hand pump whilst IPA was keg.

This was handpump but I was sure it was IPA No3, maybe it was just No3, been a long time since I drank any though, at a guess 1984/85.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Yep, the 'local' probably only wanted his pint which would have taken less than a minute but I can hear the guy with the 'massive' order shouting back to his mates " So was that a half or a pint John, did you want lime in that Lager Dave and Tarquin, ice in your Campari and Soda.

Campari should be taken straight up and on the rocks.

 

[Tim Hall]

Campari should be taken straight up and on the rocks.

You and your fancy Horsham ways.

 

[Hyslop]

My local Wetherspoons tend to serve the all day drinkers first,despite many others being well before them.The pub,and the bar that I use employ staff who have that magic gift of knowing who is next in line.Just because I'm a regular doesn't mean that I ll be served before a visitor,which is how it ought to be.What it does mean however is that they know my preferred pint and can have it poured whilst others are making up their mind,then ,when theres a lull,I pay.Suits me and causes no ill feeling.

 

[slowmotion]

I once queued for twenty-five minutes to get a round at AllBarOne at Shad Thames London. A few fellow CC parishioners were there. It was utter mayhem and I surprised myself with my rudeness when a foreign lady blatantly tried to jump just as I finally got to the bar. Nevertheless, there is a certain excitement in the anarchy of it that makes your drink a bit more special when you eventually get it. On the Dutch-run Stena ferry to The Hoek, you wait in line. Same at Vancouver airport. Somehow, it's a bit less fun.

 

[martint235]

On the subject of nuts. I was waiting at the bar in the Fire Station at Waterloo (just think ponsy and expensive ). There were some peanuts on the bar so I helped myself. The guy next to me kept giving me daggers but got served before me, picked up the nuts and wandered off to a table. "Oi mate" I said to the barman, "is he allowed to just wander off with the peanuts?". "Well he did buy them" was the response. Why he never said anything I'll never know

 

[subaqua]

Nice story from one of my university pals. Three of the were very much regulars at a particular hostelry, that when one of them popped to check if he'd left his bag ther there previous evening he was somewhat perturbed that they'd pulled three pints before he'd got to the bar to ask. It was mid-morning and he was on his way to lectures - and on his own. He managed to drink them somehow

Hmmm . not ever done that at all . no never not me

 

[Over The Hill]

Seems a badly run pub in that the manager was off floating about somewhere and not helping the bar staff with the waiting customers. If he can be called over to deal with a complaint he should already be there dealing with the problem it arose from.