Airport lounge rules beaten 😁

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Hi can I have a double gin and tonic please?
Sorry we only do singles.
OK can I have a gin and tonic and a gin please?
Yes.
Me pours gin into gin and tonic
🤔

Nice job! What a silly rule.

I hope you locked eyes with the bar tender and kept them on him/her whilst pouring the gin shot into the other, then slowly walked away, only removing your death stare as you turned.

Reminds me of vod-bull at university.

Can i have a pint of vodka and redbull? No.

Can i have 10 vodbulls and a pint glass? Sure.

Madness.

I went to a bottomless brunch recently and the waiter came round to serve us some more drinks ... pointed at one of the group and said "I can refill you all but not her, as her glass is only half empty".

My mother in law (the girl's nan) promptly grabbed her glass, downed it and announced that she would be having another drink just like the rest of us 😁, legend.

In the late 80s/early 90s I worked in a few bars that wouldn't serve snakebite.

So people bought a pint of cider & a half of lager, necked half the cider, then tipped the lager in.

Then kept buying alternate halves of lager & cider to top up.

So they got twice as pissed because they'd started by downing half their first pint so tended to keep that pace up, they were forever slopping stuff after miscalculating the space in the pint glass, we had more glasses to wash up because people who wanted to buy pints were having to buy it by the half AND when you finally got the damn pint glass back it took about 3x as much washing because it was totally crusty.

Don't even get me started on the ones who had blackcurrant/pernod/blue bols in it.

Genius rule.

Oh i remember the snakebite issues!

I was at a lounge in Dalaman this week. You can only have ONE free alcoholic drink. Anything else you had to pay for. At 24 euros for a glass of wine 😱

I refuse to go into the lounge at East Midlands now as after ordering 3 glasses of Prosecco in 2 hours they wanted to know what flight I was on to pre warn the cabin crew I was already pre loaded before I boarded the flight!!! 🤣

Ooh, snakebite and black. Now there's a thing to bring back some very messy and notably incomplete memories...

Presumably it's to stop aircraft staff having to deal with unpleasantly pissed passengers. So fair enough really.

In the pub where I was a student, we had to do this. The landlord said he couldn't serve the mix as he didn't have a cocktail license, but we could mix ourselves once paid for.
It changed when the landlord changed and we could buy a pint of snakebite and black.

I hear what you say …But I could have been next door in Wetherspoons drinking 10 pints and they wouldn’t take your details then?

Makes no sense!

And I hardly think 3 x 100ml of Prosecco over a 2 hour period would have rendered me drunk and disorderly to warrant such a heavy handed policy.

the logic is that they don’t want to encourage passengers about to board to get rat arsed

it is silly for us who don’t have intend to get rat arsed

but in the wider sense, it makes sense

Ah yes, the dreaded 'purple nasty'. It was rich in vitamin C though.

Why would they do that, the bartender doesn't set the rules? Ridiculous when people take their frustration at petty rules out on (most likely) minimum wage employees.

At uni, they’d have offers on that would, for example, make a vodka and coke cheaper than a coke. I used to ask for the vodka in a shot glass and give it away to a grateful friend.

That's really rubbish. Also have you seen the price of McDonald's at Dalaman? 20 quid for a normal meal 😟

Well yes. But like I say, apply it to the stag do in Wetherspoons drinking 10 pints rather than the middle aged woman sat on her own quietly enjoying a pre holiday drink.
Cant have one rule for one etc.

That’s why we booked the lounge. The drink issue was a nasty surprise 🤣

I went to a festival recently where they wouldn't serve a jagerbomb but they would serve a shot of jager and an energy drink. I didn't realise a cocktail license is separate from an alcohol license as mentioned above, but not sure I'd call a snakebite or a jagerbomb a cocktail!

I bet they don't advertise that either. Bit sneaky

Yes but it’s “all inclusive” in the lounge so typical to drink more when it’s “free”.

I don’t think it’s a silly rule at all, it’s one of the limited things they can do to try and stop people getting absolutely rat arsed and making everyone’s life a misery. We end up in these lounges sometimes if flying from a regional airport and they’re pretty horrible places and I’ve seen some very questionable behaviour in there.

Airline lounges are much better, everything is free pour with no policing, but the people in them tend to be much better behaved.

And I bet people were still queuing for their Big Macs and happy paying over the odds.

Why would they do that, the bartender doesn't set the rules? Ridiculous when people take their frustration at petty rules out on (most likely) minimum wage employees.

Oh good grief do you suck this much fun out of situations in real life, it was a joke dear, don't worry yourself.

I used to work in pubs and it was the brewery that banned us from serving snakebite, no idea why but it was banned. Severe consequences for anybody caught selling it, don’t know what the consequences were as the brewery never said.