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
🤔

I remember someone doing with with an affogato- they tried to order one but were told they couldn’t severe one.

So she ordered a vanilla ice cream and an espresso then mixed.

🙄 🥱

The quality of airport lounges and the people who frequent them has gone rapidly downhill in recent years. They used to be a bit more geared to business travel, somewhere chilled where you could have a bite to eat, nurse a glass of wine and do a bit of work on the laptop if needs be. They seem to be full of stag/hen dos and other noisy antisocial groups getting as shitfaced as possible.

You need to be careful if you run a pub that becomes known for serving snakebite. Within weeks you'll be overrun by goths, crusties and metalheads.

I had my hand luggage weighed against the mean Thomas Cook 6 kg allowance and was told it was too heavy.

So I took my purse, phone and Kindle out of my bag that was currently resting on the scale in front of the check in person and put them in my coat pockets.

Check out person was satisfied and I went on my way, only to stop at the first bench I found round the corner to put the stuff in my pockets back in my bag.

Exactly and it’s not the bartenders personal rule. Funny how MN is usually holier than thou when it comes to alcohol but not when it’s at an airport 🤔 🤓

The impression I got was that it is banned in many venues because it is an absolute nightmare to clean up. Everything ends up sticky and velcro like and it has a very distinct smell to it that lingers.

.....and rugby teams drinking said beverage through funnels. Now there is a smorgasbord of odd bedfellows.

OP you broke the cardinal rule of not writing "light hearted" in your post, the fun sponge vipers were ready from the bushes to spring out with judgement on their fresh prey.

That’s precisely why I booked the lounge. I was travelling alone and didn’t feel comfortable running the gauntlet with the crowds at Wetherspoons on my own. So I thought, ‘I’ll book a lounge and have a nice quiet drink before the flight’
Did not expect the 3rd degree interrogation which was unnecessary and embarrassing. So won’t use the lounge again. And I travel a lot from that airport.
So now I just go to Wetherspoons and down jaegerbombs with gay abandon without being harrassed! 😁

Ugh, I have some very bad snakebite memories. How come we all got so pissed on it? It wasn't super strength cider mixed with strong lager, was it? More likely Woodpecker mixed with Skol. Yes, I am very old.

Well no OPs post was fine. Your silly little OTT dramatics about giving evils was what made me want to be a fun sponge 👍

The impression I got was that it is banned in many venues because it is an absolute nightmare to clean up.

Ah yes, I'm getting nostalgic remembering the sound and feel of walking across the student union floor the next day 🤢

That does sound likely, to be fair we hardly sold much of it so didn’t have those problems

Well no OPs post was fine. Your silly little OTT dramatics about giving evils was what made me want to be a fun sponge 👍

Sweetheart, it was a joke, you don't have to like it, but you can learn to read the room.

I remember some pubs saying they would serve snakebite but not with grolsch or Stella.

Holsten Pils and Scrumpy Jack if we had the money. Castlemaine XXXX and Woodpecker if we didn't.

Lightweight...we used to do Special Brew & White Lightning.

After preloading on Morrisons British Sherry 🤮.

I bow before your degeneracy 😂

I've seen groups be refused service at Wetherspoons and also bar staff say to them that if they continued to appear drunk (larking about loudly) they would need to alert airport authorities.

I personally think that alcohol should not be served in airports and one drink max per person on flights under 2 hours, with one more per extra 2 hours (or just ditch it all together), drink all you like on holiday but I don't want to share a tin box at 35,000 feet with drunk people.

As for lounges, they used to be lovely when you could only get in with loyalty points or business class tickets, now I avoid quite frankly - yes I know that is snobby but they are awful, full of people getting their money's worth. We get in free via dps work affiliation and still don't use them

'Fun Sponge' - that should be the name of a really boring cocktail

The airline lounges that you need to have a business class ticket or loyalty status to enter are still lovely. The BA ones at Gatwick and Heathrow are really nice and civilised, as are emirates and ones like Swiss/lufthansa etc.

It’s the ones like aspire/escape etc which cost £30 to enter that tend to attract the people who want to “get their moneys worth” and get as pissed as humanely possible.

Jesus!

At uni there used to be a fruit/tropical alcoholic drink called 'Castaway' that was mixed with Diamond White in a pint glass to make 'Blastaway'.

Two Castaways in a pint glass, topped up with the cheapest red wine known to humanity.

I give you...the Marooned. Which I believe my student house invented.

Fuck knows how any of us ever graduated!

I remember one called 'turbo shandy'. I think it was Smirnoff Ice mixed with Stella Artois, before they reduced the alcohol content.

Fun Sponge could be a mixture of still and sparkling water, if that's not considered too exciting.