Real men drink coffee and make servers cry.

Real coffee is hard to find.

Edited by author 05-20-2003 04:13 PM
One of your very very best self portraits. A keeper

which proverb is the one about the blaze of glory?

I think every person in the world should wait tables/bartend/ do retail for 1 week of their life. No one would be an ass ever agin. It could aslo lead to world peace...

I think every person in the world should wait tables/bartend/ do retail for 1 week of their life. No one would be an ass ever agin.

ummm... I have to disagree. I agree that there is a tendency among some customers to depersonify their sever, making it easier to treat them like shit and not feel bad (this seems to happen even more often with the ladies). And I agree that a week in the trenches would add some empathy and appreciation for the level of just plain old hard work involved.

But I am sure that brittney and any other waitstaff/bartender/retail associate readers will back me up on this: some of our co-workers have been there longer than a week, and they are STILL assholes.

>which proverb is the one about the blaze of glory?

"Though I walk through the valley of the mullet, I fear not those who test my patience and yet tippeth not shit. Vengeance is mine, saith the Bartender. Yea, verily, motherfucker."

-Brittney 3:16

Bars are not a part of my life, and it's a good thing. I'm totally not prepared. I had no idea you were supposed to tip the 'tender on every drink. And I would have never thought of tipping on the first drink. Where did people learn these things before bartenders had weblogs? If bars were a part of my life, I'd have been the biggest asshole in the world without even knowing it.

I thought you could just go in, order some drinks, drink, pay, tip, and leave and it was that simple. I thought the bartenders were there to serve the patrons. Silly me. This world is so complicated.

Shrimp, The key word in that post was a BUSY bartender. These tips are for how to best get a drink at a super-fucking-busy bar where there is no where to sit--where it is impossible to run a tab.

Otherwise, drinking, paying, then tipping at the end is fine.

Ah, no worries then. Busy bars are even less a part of my life than regular bars.

I have a request: how about in a future misc. etc. update, you give us your top ten *actual* pick-up lines that people have tried to use on you, Letterman style?

HAHA!

Thats great.
*links*

-Don't ask for free drinks.

What is with people who do this? A former friend of mine and his girlfriend spent about 3 hours ordering $6.00 beers and shots for themselves abd anyone who would do one with them, at a pace of about every 15 minutes, then bitched that their tab was over $100. I watched them leave a $1 tip. and at least one round was missing from the tab.

They were bitching that they'd never go back. (I was grateful since they're a pain in the ass).

"I think every person in the world should wait tables/bartend/ do retail for 1 week of their life. No one would be an ass ever agin. It could aslo lead to world peace..."

I think I have to debate this as well. I know some people who've worked tables/bar/retail feel like they know how THEY did it, and therefore don't stand for any hooey from anyone...even if the hooey in question happens to be perfectly acceptable. In other words, sometimes that experience can lead to a sense of entitlement, ie, "I know how hard it is, and I worked my ass of to do it right, and YOU'RE DOING IT ALL WRONG."

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