I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Tonight a man about my age walks in holding a plastic cup.

I say, I’ll need to take the cup from you.

He steps back and gulps it.

I look at him.

He looks at me. 

I look at him and I say, if you do anything out of sorts again I’ll ask you to leave.

He looks at me like I’m crazy.

I say again, if you do something like that again, you won’t get served.

What do you mean?

I say, it’s against the law for you to have an open container in public.  It’s against the law for you to bring an open container into an establishment that serves alcohol.  It’s against the law, and you know it.  I’m not going to risk my liquor license because you need to drink half an ounce of wine.  And don’t tell me you didn’t know, every person in the country knows you can’t walk around with liquor in a cup. 

He became very demur, apologized and said he was sorry.

He acted like the 26 year old from the wedding. 

Who does that?

It also reminds me of the people who are told it will be just a couple of minutes before they can get seated who look at me and say, well can we go outside and get a drink.

Lady.  It’s a couple of minutes.

Before you got to the outside bar you’d be on your way to your table. 

This happens 30 times a day.

And trust me, at someone point in a moment of weakness I’m going to say to someone, you don’t need a drink, you need a meeting.  I can look up one online  while you dine and I can even make sure you get there after your meal tonight, because if you can’t go 4 minutes without a drink, I’m not sure a drink is what you need. 

PS.  A couple left without having dinner tonight because we didn’t serve Coor’s Light.