Pub locals

Logical Fallacy

scamalert wrote: »

not to insult but you sound like just u just turned 18 and your pubes just started growing

Did you not have pubes until you were 18?

That's ****ed up dude.

Fizzlesque

Fizzlesque wrote: »

Years ago there was an early house pub my mates and I used go to sometimes and there was a really grumpy old man who had drank there for years, no matter what new metamorphosis the pub underwent, he continued to drink there. At this stage the pub's metamorphosis involved being full of people still partying from the night before and very loud dance music, but still he drank in that pub. It used take him an age to shuffle from his seat to the bathroom, which meant making his way through people dancing, and if you tried to help him (which people often did) he'd get really pissed off.

One day, as I was leaving, he grabbed my sleeve to get my attention and then instructed me to get him a taxi, while he sat in his seat and waited for me to come get him once I'd managed to flag down a passing taxi for him. Once his taxi arrived, he allowed me to escort him to the car and help him in to the passenger seat. When he was in, he shut the door and instructed the driver to drive on. Not a word of thanks or acknowledgement to me.

He was the crankiest old man I've ever had the misfortune to meet in a pub, but I couldn't help but admire his stubborn tenacity to continue to drink in the pub he'd always drank in even though all his old drinking buddies (if he'd ever had any) were no longer around, and the pub was a million miles removed from the kind of pub it would have been when he first decided he liked it enough to make it his local.

It's a sad life these guys have. Their 'seat' is probably all their lives have amounted to.

Pedro K

What if he was 40 instead of 85, and had been drinking in the same pub for the last 20 years? Would people be so quick to acquiesce to his demand for his seat then?

I know I wouldn't.

scamalert

Logical Fallacy wrote: »

Did you not have pubes until you were 18?

That's ****ed up dude.

probably balls to :pac: takes courage to moan about 85old .

Crann na Beatha

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nlgbbbblth

Pedro K wrote: »

What if he was 40 instead of 85, and had been drinking in the same pub for the last 20 years? Would people be so quick to acquiesce to his demand for his seat then?

I know I wouldn't.

Neither would I.

Sometimes these "characters" aren't as sound as people think they are.

Pandora2

Nothing to the bad vibes that come at you if you have the misfortune to sit insome oul ones 'lucky' seat at the bingo! :eek:

Mickey Dazzler

If i were you I would have knocked the old boy clean out with one punch and then began kicking repeatedly him in the head as the lay on the floor writhing and pissing blood.

GaryIrv93

To be fair the old fella made a bit of a big deal over something as small as a seat. You can't just demand your traditional seat and have an attitude against a few people who are only minding their own business trying to enjoy a night out, even if they are sitting in ''your'' seat. I would've said tough luck to him and stayed exactly where I was. It hardly would have killed him to just sit in any other available seat for the time being and wait for your group to leave. Would sitting in the same seat on the same bus every day for years on end on my journey into town make that certain seat ''mine''?

I'd gladly give up my seat any day for an elderly/pregnant/disabled person who needs somewhere to sit, however if someone came up to me with an attitude and demanded that I move because that area was ''theirs'' then I'd make a stand.

padd b1975

Pandora2 wrote: »

Nothing to the bad vibes that come at you if you have the misfortune to sit insome oul ones 'lucky' seat at the bingo! :eek:

They would strangle you with their headscarves.

Itwasntme.

I agree that we should respect our elders and whatnot but there's no excuse for rudeness at any age. I would have moved for sure but not before sending him very strong you-are-rude vibes.

Sunnyisland

The man was 85, Most likely objects to these foreign people coming into his pub and taking his seat,The neck of them.

Personally I would have humoured the man and gave him his seat no probs.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

****in coosan tavern

padd b1975

Itwasntme. wrote: »

I agree that we should respect our elders and whatnot but there's no excuse for rudeness at any age. I would have moved for sure but not before sending him very strong you-are-rude vibes.

Good old passive aggression.

Logical Fallacy

padd b1975 wrote: »

Good old passive aggression.

For when you are too much of a pussy to actually do something about it.

Lionel Messy

You should have glassed him.

hondasam

This is what local pubs are like, it's not a problem for most people except the odd blow in of course who will make an issue out of it.

Rango555

Find out what time he usually arrives to the bar and arrive 5 minutes before him armed with thumb tacks.... see if he still wants the seat then

Big Nasty

I worked in pubs for years and yeah, locals tend to have their regular seats but I never saw someone insist another customer move. Out of interest what pub was it?

Vicar in a tutu

To be honest its only a seat, and as you said he was about 85 and you were going to a nightclub later, That seat is probably his little pride and joy let him have his little victory, it probably made his day:pac:

chrismon

MCMLXXV wrote: »

I worked in pubs for years and yeah, locals tend to have their regular seats but I never saw someone insist another customer move. Out of interest what pub was it?

I'd prefer not to name the pub as I drink in there a good bit.
Generally don't come in till later in the evening though.

Immaculate Pasta

You should respect your elders OP. The aul fella has probably been sat drinking on that bar stool for the past 50 years. Even before the pub was built and it was all fields :cool:

hondasam

chrismon wrote: »

I'd prefer not to name the pub as I drink in there a good bit.
Generally don't come in till later in the evening though.

Did you not know it was this man's usual seat?

Frynge

Pub I work in has an 86 yo customer who comes in every Sunday for lunch with his family, sits at the same table every week but if the table is taken when he comes in he waits at the bar having a pint then takes the table when the other customers leave.

The same man will go up to a late bar every Sunday as well where a band play. In that pub it is his seat and everybody knows it, I reckon people wouldn't be long being told it is his seat but I've never seen it happen.

Every Monday night the same man goes to Kilkenny and the same story, it is his seat.

I don't see it as a problem as every week whichever pub in question will get his custom and be grateful of it.

Big Nasty

chrismon wrote: »

I'd prefer not to name the pub as I drink in there a good bit.
Generally don't come in till later in the evening though.

I don't see the problem - do you think the pub knows your username or is searching AH?

Pdfile

reading this thread makes me happy to know i just have barstool IRA members in my local ( ontop of the usual muppets, nobody fighting over seats though thankfully )

Herb Powell

GaryIrv93 wrote: »

To be fair the old fella made a bit of a big deal over something as small as a seat. You can't just demand your traditional seat and have an attitude against a few people who are only minding their own business trying to enjoy a night out, even if they are sitting in ''your'' seat. I would've said tough luck to him and stayed exactly where I was. It hardly would have killed him to just sit in any other available seat for the time being and wait for your group to leave. Would sitting in the same seat on the same bus every day for years on end on my journey into town make that certain seat ''mine''?

I'd gladly give up my seat any day for an elderly/pregnant/disabled person who needs somewhere to sit, however if someone came up to me with an attitude and demanded that I move because that area was ''theirs'' then I'd make a stand.

Yeah, in my (short) experience so far, a lot of them actually respect you if you tell em fuuck off when they say a seat is theirs. It's like a game or a test for some of them. I'm sure I'll get a smack in the face some day, but it hasn't happened yet.

Sound Bite

Years ago, I used to work in a bar where one of the regulars in his 80s had his own seat. Used to come into the pub twice a day every day for a glass of guinness and a small whiskey. He had no family and most of his friends had passed away.

He used always tell people to get up when they were in his seat but he'd wink at you if you saw him doing it. It was for the devilment and no other reason as far as I could make out.

augustus gloop

your giving out because you had to move to let a pensioner sit down correct???


learn some manners ya jumped up little pr%ck

KeithM89_old

augustus gloop wrote: »

your giving out because you had to move to let a pensioner sit down correct???


learn some manners ya jumped up little pr%ck

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