And, from a friend...

[lush]

This was a night I had off...*sigh* my bartending days...


Ahh. Beer.

Now, I go out for a tasty adult beverage at least as often as the next guy. I don't begrudge anyone their fun. But some people really need to know when to call it quits and just stay home. Alcohol is my friend, but it's definitely not a friend to everyone.

Take for example this older guy named "Tezak" at the local bar here in *city*.

As his blood alcohol level rises, so does the level of his obnoxiousness. And when he inevitably ends up getting cut off he gets mean about it.

Really, what's with that? Have YOU ever even been cut off??? I haven't (at least that I remember). And I've had A LOT to drink a lot of times. Hell, my friend threw up on the bar one night after shotgunning a Pabst and STILL didn't get cut off. It was just funny. Disgusting, but funny. He cleaned it up, got another beer and kept on drinking. I guess I'm saying that you generally have to really push things to get cut off at the dive bars we call home.

Lush here.......seriously we knew he was being an idiot and made him clean up and laughed at him..

So GETTING cut off repeatedly is probably some sort of indication that you might have a problem with your personality and/or alcohol.

Now for the true drunk story and Drunken Darwin Award nomination...

This week, after getting cut off, Tezak got upset and told the bartender "If you cut me off, I'll f-ing call the cops on you- I know people". The bartender just shook her head and said "OK, whatever". And walked away without getting him another drink.

Tezak, apparently being a drunk that was true to his words, dialed up 911 to report that he was unfairly cut off at the bar. We can only imagine how this 911 call went. But apparently he made his point. The police showed up and promptly arrested him. We're guessing for Public Drunkenness.

When he got out he called the bar and cursed out the bartender for 'calling the cops on him'. She had to remind him that HE was the one that called the cops, resulting in the arrest. Of course she was laughing hysterically about the whole thing. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

If *city* were to have the Drunk Darwin Awards, it might be tough to pick a winner.

But this week's nominee is Tezak.

Good luck with your recent legal troubles. Dumbass.

[Iris Kojiro]

Nothing like good old booze to impair one's judgement! I have a friend who I had to babysit on a couple of occasions because he would just get out of hand.

The "calling the cops on yourself" thing reminded me of a college classmate of mine who had gone out partying. He drove home (NOT something I condone at all), went to bed, then got up and set out to go somewhere. He found these marks and scratches on his vehicle. Convinced someone had vandalized his car, he called the police and reported the "vandalism".

The police responded and gave HIM a breathalyzer. He had gotten so trashed the night before that he still registered as drunk even the day after. It turns out he himself had hit something on the way home and he was so out of it he didn't know what happened.

Yeah, he got into some trouble for that.

[GingerBiscuit]

Now, me and the boy have been cut off a couple of times. One was, however, when he was trying to buy alcohol with a bleeding head wound... (although they were fine selling him a bottle of vodka at the shop earlier in the afternoon when he was quite clearly concussed- and being him and being concussed so the alcohol didn't take effect he drank half the bottle. I took him to A+E. His blood alcohol was twice the legal limit, and he's a big guy.)

The three times it's happened we've blinked, asked 'No more?' and staggered off because we assume if we're being cut off then we are too drunk.

[Bright_Star]

I don't drink-it's not worth it.

[friendofjimmyk]

I've cut several people off in my bartending days...some later than I should've. I have been cut off once at a really nice restuarant. We were just beyond all reasonable drunkeness. They didn't tell us, we just noticed that before we left, our 2 remaining bottles of wine (a little under half full) were gone. Silent cut off. (those were 2 of 5 bottles, several before dinner drinks at home and the restaurant, and after dinner drinks)

That night was also the most money I had ever spent on a meal out. It was for my ex-husbands birthday and the four of us ran up a tab that, after the tip, was $750.

[tropicsgoddess]

I've never had anyone cut me off from one too many drinks....

[crazylegs]

I've never had anyone cut me off from one too many drinks....

Nor I

*Sits and polishes halo with tropicsgoddess*

[reimero]

I once worked at a place which sold frozen long island iced teas (VERY high alcohol content). They had a hard cap of 2 of those, after which cutoff was mandatory. People were cool about it though.

[GingerBiscuit]

I was honestly surprised we didn't get cut off at my friends leaving do....
We had three pitchers of cocktails, including Long Island Iced tea, between six of us, one of whom wasn't drinking. By the time I left I was stumbling- not wasted stumbling, tipsy stumbling- and I have a high alcohol tolerance. They had just ordered another pitcher when I left them.

Our manager was NOT surprised when all of us were late the next day.

[crazylegs]

Why do I get the impression that you (GingerBiscuit) are hilarious to watch whilst drunk..?

[Pezzle]

I've never had anyone cut me off from one too many drinks....

Me neither but I think the wait staff tries to get me drunk on account of my increase in lulz.

[clod75]

Thats hilarious... he calls 911

[Salted Grump]

In my case, I'm of the Staunch Opinion that Public Drunkenness, with Friends, is the universe's most entertaining Spectator Sport.

Then again, I'm weird like that.

[GingerBiscuit]

Why do I get the impression that you (GingerBiscuit) are hilarious to watch whilst drunk..?

Oh, I am.

Unless I get drunk on Absinthe, in which case it's just like watching a very amateurish and forgetful stripper.

[rvdammit]

http://www.robmanuel.com/2007/07/13/beer-beer-beer/