Asking the bar to replace my smashed drink?

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Out on Saturday at a craft hipster bar catching up with an old friend.

It was a tiny little place so most people drink outside. The tables/chairs were wooden crates either vertical or horizontal. We had just been served, I had literally just put down my pint when some drunk guy stumbled backwards into the 'table' and all the glasses (mostly empty) smashed onto the ground. The drunk guy found it hilarious and didn't apologise to anyone.

I went back to the bar, to the same bartender to make him aware of the smashed glass (the drunk guy had tipped the table onto the public pathway) and asked for a new drink.

My friend thought I was BU and apparently it wasn't very British of me to ask for a new drink. The bloody pint cost me nearly £7 to begin with but he said he would of just bought a new one. Who was being BU?

You were you should have asked drunk guy not the bar man

Drunk guy or his friends pay, not the bar.

Drunk guy or his friends should have paid. If they didn’t then you should have told the bar staff who should have told him to pay up or get out (and offered you a free drink if he refused.

£7 for a beer?

Hmm, was the drunk guy a customer of the bar? Had they kept serving him til he was so smashed he couldn’t stand up? If yes,?then maybe YANBU. I wouldn’t have been confronting drunk guy for a new drink no either tbh.

As someone who previously worked in a bar I would be happy to replace your drink in those circumstances. They should not be serving someone to that level of intoxication and by confronting the drunk guy itwould no doubt it would have led to agro. Easier by far for the bar to replace the drink.

If he was so shit faced he couldn’t walk in a straight line they shouldn’t have served him till he got in that state. So fairs fair they replace your brew and clean up the mess.

Guy should have paid and/or been kicked out. Bar should have replaced your drink as a gesture of goodwill if guy refused to pay.

Yes, you were being unfair. It wasn't the fault of the bar that some drunk guy in there smashed your drink. Why didn't you ask him to replace it?

If your drink was smashed by a drunk guy in my bar I would replace your drink because what the hell was I doing serving a guy so much he was drunk.
I would have ejected drunk guy and replaced your drink. Obviously.

Did the barstaff serve the visibly drunk man? If they did then they it's on them. The drunk bloke should have been evicted.

Hmm I don't know, I witnessed a guy in macdonalds drop his own drink and they got him another one for free. I also bought my son a biscuit from gregs and just out side he dropped it so I went back in to buy another one and the woman must have seen what happened and said to have it for free. So I think it's mean of the bar to expect you to pay again.

Yep -HoneyDragon has it.

I'd ask the bar about their licence if they didn't replace my drink.

X-post with Pag Sorry cocker.

How do they know how smashed he was? They could have just got there and a mate went in for his drink?

Marmalade. Because it's their licence and their responsibility if it's in their bar.
That's pretty basic

I'd have asked for a replacement too if they had served drunk guy in that state.

Wow. You should have told drunk guy. The bar didn't drop your drink

He didn't seem completely smashed, at a similar level to others in the bar but I think a) he stepped backwards to let someone pass and he stumbled not just on alcohol but the cobbled floor b) the tables should of been screwed into the floor/not so easily pushed over.

I would of asked him for a new drink but he didn't even seem to recognise that he knocked over my drink. Plus he was fairly drunk with his also somewhat drunk 6ft friends. They didn't look like the kind of lads to replace drinks, just the type to start fights.

The bar did replace the drinks, the barman did have a go at the drunk guy as he was then sitting on the unsteady table but did seem a little pissed off that I had asked.

My friend thought it was embarrassing that I a) told the bar b) essentially asked for a new drink.

I wouldn't feel bad in asking the bar for another.