I make lots of friends at work

[Calud]

11 sounds harsh. It's 2 in paris.

[RayvenQ]

Isn't 11pm a bit early for a bar?

Considering most pubs I know of are open quite early (like 10am or so) not really.

At my local, closing time used to be 1, with midnight being last orders (this was before the whole 24 hours thing)

I think it's pretty much up to the individual pubs and landlords the specific closing times.

In the UK, at least here, there's either Pubs which open most of the day (Which A Bar is the serving area) or clubs, which open later and stay open till the wee hours

11 sounds harsh. It's 2 in paris.

While the french are somewhat known drinkers, I doubt that can down them as fast, as often and as hard as us brits

[aurelemsrealm]

That second story was funny just to read. I probably would have kept laughing even if she had managed to kill herself. I'm not nice enough to feel compassion toward stupid people hurting themselves when they should know better. I believe too much in common sense and personal responsibility. As one of my coworkers once said of me, I'd be too busy laughing at someone who set themselves on fire to piss on them and put it out for them once they realized that it burns.

[Rapscallion]

I believe the origins of the eleven pm law lays in the world wars. People were needed to work in the wartime factories, and if they drank until they felt like going home, they often wouldn't make it to work the next day.

Been a long while since I've heard that, but I think the origins are accurate.

Rapscallion

[Alteran Ancient]

Yep. Most bars set their own times, but it's typically closing time at 11PM, with last calls at 10:30.

[PepperElf]

They go to a bar to unwind (if they can find one open that early) and people give them dirty looks.

yeah, the whole "not before noon" thing... shouldn't apply if you work nights.

[JustaCashier]

And that was it. They walked out! I was prepared for a full scale war!

DAMMIT!! Just when you get the adrenaline going, and are ready for a good fight ........

Her boyfriend had had enough and walked off.

The SC ran after him, pleading with him not to leave her.

"Baby! Where ya goin? Don't leave me! Whatever could I have done to make you wanna leave me?!?"

Mike

[blas]

All I can say CRML, is WOW....

I really wish that woman was on camera doing that. I am just picturing in my head some drunken angry cow pounding on the door until her fists were bloody, then pounding so hard she sends herself rolling down a slope......oh my tummy hurts from laughing at that thought...

My only similar story.....well...several times, after closing up at the gas station, turning off the lights and locking the doors and I'd be balancing my drawer, there were instances where people would be totally oblivious to the pitch black store and while trying to open the door, pretty much whack right into it. Of course there were window bangers and door reefers too......but neither compares to this!

[customersruinmylife]

We have it on camera!! On THREE different angles! Oh if only I was allowed to take the footage home with me! I showed it to my boss who screamed with laughter.

[Phone Jockey]

I thought this thread was about making friends at work. I had a customer who worked in a grocery store (meat dept) call once & tell me that he was very popular at his job, so I'd better do what he said. HAHA .. NO.

[Beckpatton]

Isn't 11pm a bit early for a bar?

In the UK there is more of a pub culture, than a club culture (well at least in the areas I lived..).... like another poster said, yes they usually close around 11pm, but they are generally open from as early as 10am, while clubs are opening at 10pm and staying open until as late as 5am...

While there are plenty of clubs around, there are pubs on almost every corner!

How I miss that!!

CRML... I dont understand how or why, but reading your posts always make me miss the days when I worked in a UK pub.... you'd think they would just remind me how glad I was to get out of there!

[Kinoo]

I had a very similar relationship with the pubs nearby when I managed a place in the centre of Sydney. Picture this for catching drunks before they even got in the door....
Pub #1 owned by our company
Go down street- turn corner
Pub #2 owned by our company
Go next door
Pub #3 owned by our company
Go a coupla doors up
Pub # 4 owned by our company
Go next door
Pub # 5 different company BUT manager is my flatmate

SC you will need cab fare to get let in anywhere.

[EricKei]

Okay, now I know I've lived in New Orleans for waaaay too long...It took me a moment to wrap my head around the notion of bars CLOSING at 11pm (23:00)...I'm used to there being oodles of bears here that OPEN closer to that time, especially downtown/in the French Quarter. They generally close up somewhere around dawn.

[Imogene]

he was very popular at his job, so I'd better do what he said. HAHA .. NO.

Sounds like the Assistant Manager TK and I had so much trouble with at the Chesterfield... he kept trying to get on our good sides, though, cause we were the most tenured people there shy of the Store Manager, and we had pull.

It never worked, sad for him. Good for TK and I because we figured out after he left us just before a Thanksgiving weekend that he had been stealing from us. A LOT.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Heh, Ex used to refer to the annoying ones as "My Friend"...he once dealt with a woman who called pissed off because her Sunday newspaper was missing some pieces (shocking...what with the way people read the paper and then leave it strewn around the comfy chairs I was always surprised if there were any intact at the end of the day). He got a fresh copy and put her name on it, and then brought it to me at the cashwrap, saying "This is for my friend, Name. She'll be in shortly to get it." When she came in she was still all pissed off and when she told me she was there to pick up a copy of Newspaper, I almost said, "You're Ex's friend, right?"...I caught myself and changed it to "You spoke to Ex, right?" >.<