My Friend Got Us Thrown Out of a Karaoke Bar By the Flamboyant Host

(xcuse the typos pls!)

Every now and again you get some drunk guy who can only remember his round one drink at a time and then basically tells you starting out that you are an idiot who will only be able to remember it one drink at a time, really slowing you down as the rest of the customers are like um, can we actually order and then you get their order in the time it takes him to come staggering back and it goes on like this for some time.

I know, or people who go "whadda ya got?" and expect an answer. i have a bar thankyou.

YES, that sucks.

ppl will call me and be like what do you have this month, and i'll be like, ummm a LOT OF SHOWS, LOOK AT THE 8 BROCHURES WE SENT YOU. ; /

but n e way yeah i woulda been super pissed if they threw me out but i find the best thing in those circumstances is just to understand that iTS THEIR PROBLEM for being bitchy mcbitches. and just move on to a better bar. i mean, bad beer and stupid hosts? bad

What the fuck is wrong with rum and coke you freak?

no no -- RUM AND CREAM SODA

diet coke

I've heard someone complain about this around here before

I'm assuming it was you.

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That could be good.

its sooooo good, esp. fr the holiday season.

Yeah absolutely. This one time i ordered a drink that i hated on purpose so i could complain about it. then i insulted the bartender. And they asked me to leave???? crazy!

Sooooooooo not getting it. His problem wasn't with the beer, it was that the beer itself had gone bad. IE, the yeast....

As far as insulting the bartender, well, he spoke the truth ....I served in restaurants for years and had I done somethign like that to someone I probably woulda gotten reprimanded for insinuating the customer was a loon.

It wasn't a case of "I don't like this beer"...if someone serves you a beer with a born-on date of September, I suppose you just drink it and say nothing?

There was this really funny group who decided to only order bizarre things and see what they tasted like. It wasn't wasteful because they drank it all and got really drunk and were even funnier.

hahaha that does sound fun

I know this guy who insulted the bar girl once and then apologized but she was like "seriously, fuck you" and he was started being "why are you being so rude" and then complained to the manager, who was going out with this chick.

I think he does a lot of coke.

But he called her something really horrible to begin with

and fyi, I'm not a proponent of 'the customer is always right', either.

I could, at times, be a hard ass when I took manager calls at my current job before my role changed and I didn't have to do that anymore.

But if someone has actually stated that the beer itself has gone bad (not that they don't LIKE the beer), might help to check it out, even if you doubt it.

(for the record, my friend is pretty much right on the money when he says things like that...they probably didn't realize he works in the alcohol profession.)

wat are those weird green drinks, medori sours? what is that? i had one once, it was so good!!!!

i guess it really depends on the type of bar. a dive bar in nyc would really not waste their time checking on your beer, maybe. i dunno, it's hard to imagine knowing what a bad beer would taste like.

well yea, once the profanity or the heavy insults come in, that's a one and done.

in my profession (benefits), you'd be surprised how many times idiots will complain nobody told them they had to do such and such within 30 days, and then you'll tell them they were mailed a letter saying just that and they will say "I didn't get it".

According to some of these clowns, the mail service must lose 70% of their mail!

Or my favorite, is when someone doesn't pay a bill because they don't get one in the mail. IE, it gets lost, or, more likely, they misplace it and forget about it.

so if I know I have a monthly recurring Cingular bill, and I don't get it one month, that means the month is free? No, it means you call and ask for another copy.

well yea, we live in Florida.

I wouldn't doubt it in New York. I'm fairly respectable of the whole "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" motif. Last time we went to NY my other Florida cronies that were with me were miffed that they wouldn't split the check and after trying to point out that NYC ain't Florida, I gave up and let them whine for the next 10 minutes in silence.

haha yes there is a set of expectations...

and for the record, I love New York, so I tend to defend everything about it

sometimes the power trip thing is hilarious. it's like, i work in a public/entertainment kind of arena, but i never feel that my job is so important that i should be rude to ppl, or kick them out, etc for something kinda small. awful.

it's like OOO you're so fucking important, you hold the key to my either drinking or not at your bar. I BOW DOWN, FUCKER.

hmm, yea.

rum and DIET cokes are horrible. i don't think it was me that complained about it before. I am not a big fan of rum in general, but rum and diet cokes are awful shit. But luckily where I bartended in ny, people only really order whiskey and pbr 70% of the time.

What is your job?

haha those are like my favorite things to order, even tho i usually order vodka. altho do places like have pbr a lot? i never feel like they do

me? arts administration

It's more fun to tell someone to go to Hell in a way that they look forward to the trip (sorry for the bad cliche).

and of course, your secret is God's secret.

I ALWAYS hated, as a server, the people who would walk in 1 minute prior to close. Now, for perspective--had I worked in a GOOD restaurant, I may not have minded being kept late for a straggler, but this was a struggling restaurant that probably wrote its monthly returns in black ink once in a two year period.

(Hint: a restaurant that shares its name with a vehicle brand and serves California style mexican food).

So one day it was dead, I was tired and wanted to go home, and I was closer, so I got everything ready, we hadn't had a customer in ages, and right as the clock was to strike closing time, these two walked in...and knowing full well, they sat down anyway.

so in my irrational rage (back in my I hate everything for no good reason phase), I went to the kitchen, and got the salsa we were required to bring every table, and put ketchup, mustard, jalapeno peppers, a quarter of a bottle of habanero sauce...anything I could find into it, and mixed it up and took it to the table.

when I got back they were suffering from the concoction and asked if we had a milder salsa. I grinned and said it was the mild...but then felt bad a little later and brought them a different one without telling them.

i'm like a ticket + event fairy. whoa post post k

omg ha that souns AWFUL!

I vowed to never go back to retaurants and haven't since....

Aren't you hungry? (sorry)

haha!

funny, i was talking about this the other day ... when i was a kid, me and my folks would go out for meals (often to the local berni inn or similar -- oh yeh, the eighties in the north of england!) with the next-door neighbours.

mr N-DN was actually a reasonable bloke but had a bottomless capacity for dickwittery, and would manage to fuck off waiters within about five seconds of us getting in the door. casual sexism, offhand comments, you name it ... once he actually asked a waitress, half-way through the meal, if she'd mind "getting the other girl to serve us, because we like her better". it was like he didn't actually realise what a cock he was being. despite us trying to explain, repeatedly.

i hate to think how much "chef's special sauce" me and my parents have been forced to eat because of that throbber. i think, in the end, my mum and dad were forced to be spectacularly blunt with him. and i don't remember going out with them again.

WOW

the end result is that i go out of my way to be nice to waiters. who probably think i'm an ingratiating wanker, and break out the special sauce all over again :(

noooo

I ordered a G+T in Monterey and got given Gin and Soda (wtf? is this normal in US of States?). I complained, but they said they didn't have tonic, so they gave me the biggest martini I've ever had as a free replacement. Score.

and for the record, I love New York, so I tend to defend everything about it.

New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

sweet

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Around the middle of the night, my friend orders a Foster's (for whatever reason, he HATES that beer)

I gotta say that this sounds a bit suspicious. He orders a beer he hates, and then he bitches about it? Unless y'r a princess, beer-gone-"bad" is at least drinkable: It's not like wine that's turned to vinegar. I suspect that the reason he ordered the Foster's (the "non-bad" specimens of which resemble "recycled" beer, granted) was so that he could stage a little drama.

The right thing to do in this situation is simply to order a different beer without attempting to "return" the offensive brew. If asked why, then explanations may be given.

"You know, you're a great karaoke singer, but a bad bartender"

Yr pal may know a lot about alcohol, but he sure doesn't know how to hold his own.

beer-gone-"bad" is at least drinkable: It's not like wine that's turned to vinegar

i beg to differ. "off" lager is fucking horrid. and when bitter goes bad ... jesus, it's like drinking liquefied fart.

(that said, i agree with the central premise here: if the dude hates fosters, why buy fosters?)

My parents were restauranteurs so I grew up in the business and am normally really polite to servers and customers. The only time I ever had to ask a bouncer to thow someone out was when I was bartending and a regualar (and friend up until that point) got so drunk that he started harassing me and demanding that I fuck him. I think I was pretty justified in having him ejected and subsequently banned from the bar.

Also agreed. Tha fact that he ordered Fosters in the first place makes the whole thing weird.

At the very least, there are degrees of "having-gone-badness" of beer. There's "bad" beer I won't drink that nevertheless is less vile than Red White and Blue.

The bit that tips me off that the brew may not have been gag-reflex-inducing is the proclamation that this fella knows beer/wine up and down. My bet is that he was drunk ("middle of the night") and decided that he had something to prove to his companions.

Also, the salience of the host's "flamboyance" is unclear, apart from a gratuitous "fag" slam.

Ban John Justen

lol

i just put together that droooone= w4lter.

what happened to him btw?

I remember reading some article in "Psychology Today" magazine, which even at the time I read it, the magazine was a pale shadow of its former self. Anyhow, there was a piece about which cliches were true-to-life or not...like examining "familiarity breeds contempt" and "absence makes the heart grow fonder".

The conclusions drawn were that the more familiar one is with a person in a given context, the more one tends to warm towards them...and the greater the person's absence time-wise, the more one tends to forget them.

STalkers, don't take heart from this; you're likely fucked in any event...

reverend is cool with me hes just kinda crotchety

-- and what, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 10:42 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

more miccio than lex, i mean

-- and what, Wednesday, August 1, 2007 10:42 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

thanks?

I never got ban-calls, but I was pretty quiet through my first year or so here, or at least I would like to think I was.

lol i thought for a while that you were skidmore-style old

"that rev's gotta have a great time knitting and listening to reggaeton records"

lol @ deej calling you a pop-ist.

wtf is a 'humansuit'?

RIP humansuit

heaven needed another small cat

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some people called for a "Ban Darramous" every time i posted, but i think that was either a case of mistaken identity or dom trying to be funny.

I never got ban-calls, but I was pretty quiet through my first year or so here, or at least I would like to think I was.

yeah early quietness is key to not getting a ban thread, but now im sort of jealous that i never got one

all i got was "there's a grady now???"

can't be too quiet, traceable history wildcard

Weird thread.

'tis a fly boatman's balmy font. I love Bobby's newfound enthusiasm for ILX.

Wow, how did I miss this one? Awesome.

dear max rBo Jackson Overdrive,

usually when we here at ILX have a general aversion to a new poster, it's usually an accurate one. you suck.

-- cutty, Friday, 5 October 2007 19:39 (3 months ago) Bookmark Link

Mebbe its cos I only post to threads about Britney and Black Dice and the Gay thread, but people have only ever been supernice to me.

I'm banned from the Noise Board though.

we = 6 people

nah tiarnan, it's 'cos you arrived on more or less the same day as another 19 year-old UK&Eire student, who took the apportioned shit of two men

oh and the fact i post to more or less every thread EXCEPT those ones :D

Your search - "ban colonel poo" - did not match any documents.

Damn, I need to step up my game.

this thread has gone FUBAR!!!

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"You know, you're a great karaoke singer, but a bad bartender".

aside from WORST ZING EVAH.

we need to know - what did the bartender sing????????

"Can you guys ban Thermo Thinwall's ip from hitting ilx at all..."

i r loved

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oh holy hell, totally wrong thread...!

RIGHT THREAD

you'll be delighted to know that my mum walked in the room just as i loaded that one up

i AM delighted :D

I think she sang Fallin' by Alicia Keys, butI could be wrong

Not that you asked, but I sang "Practice What You Preach" by Barry White

Seriously, this is the weirdest thing ever.

I think people who order rum and diet cokes are the worst people in the world.

― Yerac, Sunday, January 6, 2008 4:18 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

I miss Yerac.