Posted by Shirley Anne on December 15, 2009
I mentioned this on Nicky’s blog (aka the CFG) last night. I had decided to go to the pub (nothing new there) for a quiet drink. Mondays are usually quite quiet with only a handful of customers going there. They’ve probably had enough over the weekend! Anyhow my ex. bless her asked if I’d like a lift there. She was preparing her evening meal (I had eaten earlier) and stopped cooking so that she could take me. No way! I told her to finish cooking and have her meal. I wasn’t in a hurry anyway so I played some guitar in the back room while she got on with it. Finally she came in and said, ‘Ok I’m ready to take you’, so off we went. I asked her if she wanted to come in with me but she declined, I think she wanted to do something else. I opened the door to the bar and could hardly get in! The place was packed. Some local friends (a rather large family with friends) were holding a party for their daughter who was 18. When I finally made it to the bar and ordered my drink I wasn’t allowed to pay for it! ‘I’ll get that came a voice from behind. It was the girl’s father. Greeting me he said, ‘It’s Sophie’s birthday and we are celebrating’. I’d never have guessed…LOL. There was also a huge buffet to dig into but as I’d eaten not long before I left the food alone. I settled down and chatted with some girls and by the time I wanted another drink another guy offered to buy it. ‘Offered’, isn’t the right word, he insisted, as he usually does with me. He’s a nice guy and is always generous in buying me a drink or two, so I accepted graciously. Ok back to chatting with other people and hey, guess what somebody else wanted to buy me a drink. ‘Well’, I thought, ‘No it’s my turn to buy a drink’ but before I could pay for his drink too, he had already paid for mine! I said I’d return the gesture but he was gone after drinking his pint. So it went on, yet another free drink without the opportunity to reciprocate. I wasn’t staying all night, in fact I was only there for two hours as I had to rise early this morning for work. I did manage to buy a drink for myself and with a tip for my favourite barmaid cost me just £3…….I’m not sure why everyone wants to buy me drinks. Either they think I can’t afford them or they simply like me or fancy me………..maybe! They are all nice people and I am privileged to know them.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on December 12, 2009
While I was in my local pub last night losing money on the races (LOL) an elderly friend came in and sat with my ex. and I. He and another friend had been out on the town all afternoon. Now these two guys are not short of a few pennies, I know the other one is a millionaire. Anyway this guy asked us if we would like to visit the pub on the afternoon of the 30th Dec because they were having a party with all food and drinks free! A very generous gesture I think but maybe a bit foolish. If word gets around the place may be packed to capacity! Maybe not but you know what some people are like. I might have been going to the pub on that day anyway, as is my want and I might have just stumbled in on the event and I know I would have been welcomed but it is nice to be invited isn’t it? As things are I cannot guarantee being there but I will go if I can.
Shirley Anne
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Posted by Shirley Anne on November 5, 2009
On my way back home today I stopped by a pub and had lunch. During the meal I got to thinking about some soft drinks I kept promising to buy for myself. So, after leaving the pub I drove around the corner to a mini-mart and went inside and collected the drinks. At the check-out there was an old guy deep in conversation with the check-out girl. They were talking about the unnecessary food consumption that goes on at Christmas time. I waited patiently and tried not to seem too eager to pay for my drinks for I was interested in the conversation. The girl was saying that she and her family were going to spend less on food this year than they normally do. The old guy was talking about ‘tradition’. When they glanced in my direction I popped in with, ‘I have beans on toast for my Christmas dinner’. I didn’t think they believed me but I reitterated and the girl replied ‘Well it is silly spending too much on food because it is Christmas’. It seems to me that today, because of ‘tradition’, people do spend unnecessarily large amounts on food. The way I see it you can only eat so much in any one day and normally you would eat the same amount no matter which day it was. However, because you’ve bought more ‘delicacies’ you indulge more with the subsequent consequences. I piped in again, ‘People don’t celebrate Christmas for the right reason anymore’, to which they replied, ‘No they don’t’. Christmas isn’t about stuffing as much food and drink inside you at all but it appears that it has become that way for the majority. What a shame that they misunderstand the true meaning and reason for the Chistmas celebration. The old guy finished by saying, ‘People should give food to the starving and poor instead’. Now there’s a thought eh?
Shirley Anne
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