Bar Wars: Revenge of the Staff

Monday 08 September 2008
reading time: min, words

This is what happens when you piss off the bar staff on a Saturday night...

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3. THE MOCKTAIL
Braying dickhead who thinks he knows all about mixology because he saw that Tom Cruise film is holding up the bar all night demanding stupid cocktails for all his other waste-of-sperm-and-egg mates, whilst everyone behind him silently seethes and imagines what it would be like to punch him repeatedly in the back of the head, over and over again. After the third time he’s taken a sip and admonished the bar staff for not using enough amoretto in his girl’s drink, said bar staff member secretly makes his next round without using one single drop of alcohol. He doesn’t even notice.

4. THE GLASS SWITCH
A variation on the above. Gormless Bint dramatically kicks off at harassed bar staff and demands a fresh glass of wine, because the one she has isn’t sweet enough. Or dry enough. Or it’s too sparkling. Or it’s flat. Bar staff member, who is thoroughly aware that the only thing wrong with the drink is that it’s attached to the hand of a window-licker in a pink cowboy hat, apologises and offers to change it immediately – into a new glass, when she’s not looking. She takes a sip, says “That’s better”, and goes off to steal some more precious oxygen.

5. THE BOG AMBUSH
A great cure-all for anyone who has imposed mither upon the bar staff as soon as they nip to the lav. Bar staff contacts the door, and tells them that they think someone matching their description is in the toilets having a 'nose-up'/downloading child porn/meeting Osama bin Laden by the Johnny machine. Doorman ushers out said miscreant, who complains that he’s not done owt and he’s just got a drink in. Except that the bar staff have already cleared it away, shrugging their shoulders and claiming that they thought the table was vacated.

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