Until recently I worked in a local pub so I know all the managers/staff in the other venues and a lot of the regulars. I’ve changed jobs to a 9-5 (ish).
I have a half hour/hour wait after work before my bus home so I usually pop to the pub next door, I’m good friends with the landlord and know all the bar staff and there’s usually someone in there I know to sit with. Some days I’ll have a glass of wine but I’ll often just have a coffee. DH and I also ‘go to the pub’ as a night out, any of the pubs in town. We’ll always know lots of people out so it’s never just the two of us, if we want that we’ll stay home.
I’m just musing on it really as two of my colleagues said yesterday that they wouldn’t dream of going to a pub on their own and that nights out/date nights would be dinner out or a cinema trip or something so it’s just them. One of them (older) said it was a bit tacky really; a woman going to the pub on her own.
I’m just wondering now if I’m some sort of weirdo. Is going to the pub not a thing now? Kids are older/adults and DH does his own thing most weekday evenings so I’m not utilising family time or anything.