RE: What do you say to say to a Drunk interested?
August 21, 2014 at 7:57 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2014 at 8:04 am by Goosebump.)
(August 21, 2014 at 6:55 am)Cato Wrote:(August 21, 2014 at 5:44 am)Goosebump Wrote: But regardless and impasse is reached? As in in the drunk or not the two arguers are left walking away?
If so that's my problem with the approach... nothing is solved.
Get used to it. People disagree on any number of topics all the time.
Fair enough, but perhaps if each could leave with a respect for one another something meaningful could be achieved for the exchange.
I find the whole idea of human interaction (in the flesh) to be completely counter intuitive. We are "social creatures" but you'd be hard pressed to assert that in a bar with one of each college frat on campus.
We build barriers, cliches, specializations to fit into. I'm interested in Atheism (not from a belief or reasoning stand point) from a sociological interest because it seems the default the least categorizing.
But I digress, better men then me have tried and failed. The reasonable departure seems to hard to synthesize even in this modern world and on this wise and brilliant board. I suppose it's a creature of spontaneity. luck and good fortune.
- Devs - You can close this thread I think I've been answered.
(August 21, 2014 at 7:53 am)Zack Wrote: As a person that has worked in a bar and lives next door to a very alcoholic, very Pentecostal neighbor (has the New Testament memorized), I have experienced this shit all the time. Let me start by saying if a stranger is bothering you that much, the staff are doing a poor job. You should tell the bartender, doorman, bar back, whomever. Especially if you are a regular. It's better to kick out a drunk that is annoying people than lose a good paying regular customer. This person is probably annoying other people too.
If that doesn't work then pick out some details (sports clothing, band clothing, maybe a piece of jewelry ) and change the subject to HIS/HER interest. Manipulating drunk people is not hard at all. You can always deflect to a third person (preferably a stranger) to make him/her lose interest in you: "Look at third person's so and so." My favorite is to indulge, all the while, plying them with more drink: "Here ya go friendo. How bout some shots?!" That's usually enough for them to make such an ass out of themselves (tripping, falling, passing out etc), the staff have no choice but to kick them.
That seems very cruel to me, I could not imagine myself doing so. I do understand that your position is very different then mine and accept that if you felt the treatment justified at the time, then it was to you as you where there, and I was not, and do not know what you do of the situation.
Kinda sucks though that it's come to that. But each man has to make his own choices based on what he has at hand I suppose.