RE: Open All Hours - 162

John

The only thing I would say against the Waggon is it has stools at the bar, I hope they take them out when the pub gets crowded. I have been known to spill drinks when being served at a bar, especially when someone sitting or drinking at the bar refuses to move. I of course always apologise and move away smiling.

Phil

If it didn't have stools at the bar , then that would count against it in my eyes Phil
mike

Mike

So you are one of these people who hogs all the room at the bar and prevents the serious drinker from getting to his drink? I used to hate it when I couldn't get near a bar for people sitting at the bar sipping a half pint. I got round this by sorting out the best bar man or bar maid on duty and always buying them a drink every time I ordered. Even in a strange pub by the end of the night they were pulling my drink as I walked up to the bar.

Phil

I have no objections to people sitting at the Bar when the pub is quiet.

Sitting at the bar when the pub is busy is to my mind just wrong.

Bar hoggers are in the way at these times,would you sit in front of people in a queue at a checkout............??

Actually, perhaps i put that a bit wrong. I'm not too bothered about whether there are stools at the bar, and in fact i only occcasionally use them, but i do not like palces where you are herded into sitting down at a table . what i should have said was that if you had to sit down at a table that would count against it in my eyes.
mike

The stools are removed every evening at 6 pm and don't go back until morning, even if you ask for one.

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Posted by mikejee

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Actually, perhaps i put that a bit wrong. I'm not too bothered about whether there are stools at the bar, and in fact i only occcasionally use them, but i do not like palces where you are herded into sitting down at a table . what i should have said was that if you had to sit down at a table that would count against it in my eyes.
mike

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I remember when visiting relations in Dundee a few years back, we went to a huge pub one evening. There wasn't a chair in the place, I started doing my usual of buying the barman a drink my cousin who I was with nearly cracked up and said don't do that. They will think you are gay.

Phil

John

I'm glad to hear that about the stools in the bar, it sounds as if your nephew has got his head screwed on right. The other thing I can't stand is a television in a pub.

By the way John, did you hear your old school (Moseley Art) has gone on the top ten most endangered building list. They think there is a real danger of it falling down.

Phil

hi everyone...now calm down volty its only a commercial must say i prefer the spit and sawdust pubs myself...cant stand the thought of having to dress up and be someone who i am not to go into these yuppyfied wine bars that sell food at extortionate prices...jeans tee shirt and boots will do me just fine....with a dart board and pool table if possible....hence my love of the back st pubs...well whats left of them...

lyn.