No more bouncer related stories for a while please
OK enough moaning about door staff. Here’s new of an event taking place at Inn on the Green on Valentine’s day next year, a place a place where door staff is never an issue and a friendly welcome always guaranteed.
A short while ago a chap (or possibly chapess I guess, I never did ask*) named Cal posted a comment to my item on The Duke of Wellington, pointing out that locals still call it Finches.
Clean parties?
What interested me was the link back to his site (and remember all links from here are nofollow free) about his clean parties. I don’t know much about them apart from the fact that they run occasional parties at which the pumps are covered. That’s right, they charge you to get in and then don’t let you drink any alcohol (or of course anything naughtier).
But surely that’s nuts!
On the face of it I can see that that sounds like a crazy business plan. Valentine’s day next year falls on a Saturday and you wouldn’t think that any bar would have to try very hard to fill up that night, but I urge you to visit their site. I think it’s a brilliant idea! After all the competition is tough and every other bar in town will be - well - serving alcohol. I’m sure there are enough people around who just don’t want to drink, for whatever reason, and don’t want to be around people who do want to drink.
I myself have been experimenting with sobriety recently
It’s quite a feeling to leave a bar or club late at night absolutely sober. I don’t mean any feeling of superiority over or condecension towards your peers, just that it’s amazing to see the streets not through an alcoholic fuzz, but through clear eyes. It probably only applies if you’ve regularly experienced the dizzy opposite, but sobriety is in a way its own high. Plus if everybody else isn’t drinking, you don’t feel like you have to as well.
I’m not advocating it as a lifestyle necessarily. I realise that at the moment I’m dangerously below the recommended glass or so of red wine a day and have much catching up to do. I’m just saying that a few non drinking weeks or even days can be a revelation and I recommend that you incorporate one of Cal’s clean parties into your drink free diet at some point.
*Cal is of the bloke persuasion.
Of course the irony is that the ads served up on this page are bound to be to do with pubs!
Correction! Google’s cleverer thanI thought and is serving up alcohol addiction ads.
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