Incoming beer bottles!

[MadMike]

This happened to my friend Denyelle when she was tending bar last weekend. She signed up here, but has yet to post, so I guess I'll tell the story for her.

As some of you who tend bar know, sucky drunk customers are about the worst. It was a busy night and she had a lot of people at the bar waiting to be served, and I guess she wasn't moving fast enough for this one guy. He started banging his empty bottle on the bar to get her attention. She turned to him and politely told him, "Yes, I know you need another beer. I'll get to you."

I guess that wasn't good enough for him, because he started banging it harder. This time, she not-so-politely told him, "That's a good way not to get served at all."

He started banging it even hard her, and she told him, "That's it. I am not serving you." So he threw his bottle at her, and then grabbed the one setting in front of the guy next to him and threw that at her too. The first one missed her, and the second one grazed her shoulder. Either the guy wasn't very big, or she's a lot stronger than I thought she was, because she ran out from behind the bar, grabbed a hold of him, and physically threw him out of the bar.

He's just lucky her husband wasn't there. He's a nice guy, but he's not someone you'd want to piss off either.

[Pixilated]

Uh ... I'm assuming her boss will back her up?!? That kind of behaviour merits a call to the police and assault charges, IMO.

[Kristev]

On this website? Odds are, the mismanagement would punish the bartender in some way. And give the drunk a free beer.

[Clover]

Honestly, banging his beer bottle? Was he incapable of speech, a neanderthal that somehow got thawed out, escaped the lab and went straight to the bar, or just a moron? My three year old nephew knows better than to bang on things for attention, if he wants something he ASKS for it! Good grief. People are so stupid.

And I agree with an earlier poster, that could easily have turned into an assault charge, especially considering the second bottle hit her. She should have filed charges, or at least clocked him.

[MadMike]

On this website? Odds are, the mismanagement would punish the bartender in some way. And give the drunk a free beer.

Thankfully, the bar where she works is a small privately-owned place out in the middle of nowhere. The owner doesn't put up with bullshit and doesn't make his employees put up with it either. Years ago, she was working at a big bar that was part of a national chain, and got fired for smacking some drunk that decided to grope her.

There's a downside to being out in the middle of nowhere, though. The closest cops are about a half an hour away.