No lie. I went to the movies on Friday night. It was a free promotional event at a movie theater/cafe. So the film was free! (Actually two films for free! Gotta love sneak previews and the chance to be on another blog!) Because my friends work there, I was getting offered extra drinks the bartenders had poured incorrectly for other tables. Though I violated Lent by drinking a rum and Coke, who was I to turn down the free drink? It saved me from ordering a drink of my own. No, I didn’t ask for it. It magically appeared. The waitress who brought it didn’t even know I was going to be there. Someone else must have told her where we were sitting because we weren’t in her section.
Restaurants screw up orders all the time. It doesn’t happen every day necessarily, but is there something wrong with accepting a drink they were going to pour out anyway? If you’re in the industry, please let me know if my friends have just put themselves at risk for a drink that was going into the drain. Seriously, if they were going to serve it to another table, then fine, I wouldn’t take it. I figure the good karma factor came in pouring a beer for the table next to us out of the pitcher our table ordered since I didn’t think we were going to finish it off. If they added the drink to our check, then fine then too. No, I didn’t add in the price of that drink for the tip we left the server. She wasn’t the source of the drink and she seemed confused by our table’s order of meatless potato skins for Lenten Fridays, which was then delivered late.
One of my good friends has a relation in the bar/nightclub industry. We can’t go anywhere without his getting extra strong drinks. Even when he doesn’t want them. The bartenders see him, and it’s like Norm from Cheers. They call his name, they wave, they pour his signature cocktail with a double shot of alcohol, which in fact is not the way he likes it. But bully for us! We get the crazy strong cocktails which end up with everyone drinking about one drink less for the night. (Or else one free beer.) All in all, a cheaper night out than originally planned.
So don’t be a mooch, one of my perennial fears. And don’t expect the perk. Just be hopeful. And don’t take advantage of your friends. I really don’t know why they foisted drinks on me. (There were actually two and I was able to give away one to someone in our party.) But free is free!
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