Aibu to give them a mop and bucket?

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Was in a small local real ale bar this evening. Group of young men (I would say uni students maybe reuniting with secondary school mates)
anyway - all fine - no worries about legality of them booking. But as the night got on they got really louder (dropping the f and c bomb)
then they started to ‘spout lager at each other’. I said ‘guys come on that’s disgusting’ the young woman behind the bar appeared with a mop and bucket and I said ‘pass it to them they made the mess’.

the gobbiest of them offered me £20 and told me to mop it up - lol.

do you think these peoples parents would write this off as youngsters blowing off steam? the kids are I would say non working, middle class young lads - probably decent on the whole.

If your kid came home and reported this event to you what would you say / do?

I would have taken the £20 off him and rubbed the mop in his face. I’ve got 2 boys and I know they would never be so disrespectful

editing to say 2 boys

I worked in a pub many years ago and we got a lot of students there in the evening. The first year students were less able to hold their drink than the older ones, and we had one lad who got drunk on snakebite and black and proceeded to throw up on the flagstone floor. I gave him a bucket and mop and told him to clear it up. He did. He will be well into his forties now... I wonder if he remembers!

Are you trying to excuse their behaviour as "boys will be boys" op ? They probably are fine day to day but the mob behaviour and the rudeness doesn't leave some men they just get worse. I am sure their parents will be mixed in how they think about it.

“Non working middle class so decent boys”
what the hell does that mean??
They sound like rude, disrespectful little pricks who’ve never been taught how to behave. Middle class or not!!
The fact they weren’t embarrassed when they were handed a mop and wanted to pay “the staff” to do it tells me all I need to know. I’d be mortified if my boys behaved like this.

I think you should do your drinking where kids aren’t spitting beer at one another.

They are rude and disrespectful but at the same time why on earth did you involve yourself? That's the kind of thing that would simply make me leave a bar. It’s down to staff and management, not other drinkers, to manage behaviour.

If any of my children behaved like that they'd never hear the end of it. I didn't bring them up to be loutish, arrogant little pricks and treat staff like that, even if they were drunk.

Those lads should have been booted out on their ears.

I thought this was going to be about WAP.

I’m very much not excusing their behaviour at all.
the reason I intervened was because it’s a nice place (usually) and this was going on on the next table to me and had they ‘missed’ each other they’d likely have got me.
I am an intervener by nature.

Ha ha - I’m an intervener by nature too OP!

I have a son and would not be impressed at all if he behaved in this way. I mean he’s 12 now, but either now (with soft drinks obviously!) or later on.