Yeah, I wouldn’t want to spend that much everyday, I’ll just have some beers at home for 1/5th the price
Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Yes, my dad was one of them. I haven’t gone to a bar for years but it used to be most smaller bars had at least a few regulars that basically lived there. I remember one old vet that used to show up every day as soon as the bar would open for his daily fix… It got to the point the bar refused to serve him, so he would try and get unsuspecting customers to buy them for him. (This was in the 70’s and 80’s, there were (or at least seemed to be) a lot more alcoholics back then.
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
snooggums@piefed.world 1 week ago
The extra price was so they weren't drinking alone, or to avoid going home.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I remember one old vet that used to show up every day as soon as the bar would open for his daily fix… It got to the point the bar refused to serve him
So he’d go to this bar during business hours to drink. And this went on to the point where they stopped serving him? Something is missing from the middle of this story…
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Sorry If I didn’t explain that right… the guy was drinking non-stop every single day, to the point you could physically see his liver was shutting down because of his yellowish color. So the bar didn’t have much choice and had to cut him off. He was an awesome old guy so no-one wanted to boot him, but if he drinks himself to death the bar would be potentially liable for still serving him.
Firoaren@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Dude managed to get a parenthetical inside a parenthetical, respect
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I remember stories from my dad about a guy he knew where the bar maid would have to help him with the first drink in the morning because his hands would shake so much.
The romantic history of the happy drunk is almost entirely fictional. I say almost because I know a few people who are able to take it or leave it, but for the most part the people I know/knew who were drinking either in bunches or daily end up complete and unabridged alcoholics, whether they are active and in serious trouble or have sought help and straightened up, but cannot touch it.