Worked in a similar field, parts for recreational vehicles (motorcycles, atvs, etc). Had one guy get pissed because we wouldn’t promise to stay open ‘just five minutes more’ for him to get there. The store and all of the employees necessary to facilitate your transaction do not revolve around you, leave five minutes…

people who walk into retail stores just to browse and stay there after closing are my mortal enemies. i am not allowed to start closing up until everyone has left. it is late and we all need to go home.

This reminds me of a friend who owns a small specialty shop in our town. She has been stopped while walking somewhere and asked — frantically — why she isn’t at her store.

Having ancestry you didn’t know about? It’s not unusual.

As a resident of Denver, (I’m trying to determine which restaurant this was. I think I’ve narrowed it down to two places. Yes, we here in Denver love our Tuesday Trivia nights and taco specials.) I am glad someone recognizes our right not to be mowed down by drunk drivers.

I didn’t know eating establishments that provide alcohol also have baby sitters for grown adults.

Yep. In fact, I’ve worked as a server before and I’ve called the police on clearly inebriated customers before. DUI/DWI is not fuckin cool at all. I’d rather give my tip back to them for cab/uber money than see some drunk asshole kill somebody.

Exactly. Plus, all variations of the serving intoxicated persons criminal statutes have different lists of “visible intoxication indicators” that they go by, but they have one thing in common, that they require proof beyond a reasonable doubt of intoxication. You can definitely be over the legal limit but not be…

I prefer to think of it as karma for those two. You know that wasn’t the first time they went to a place for a drink deal and made sure they ’got their moneys worth’ and then jumped in the beigemobile for a wobble home.

so you’re blaming the server here? is that what you’re implying?

there’s a huge gap between “too impaired to drive safely” and “too drunk to live safely”.

No, dingus, if the server had gotten tipped appropriately, he’d had never stepped outside and seen them get in their fuckwad car and drive, being douchebags not only to him but to other humans because they have no regard for anyone else.

Had he gotten tipped, they would have gotten in their car just fine sure. But…

According to state law, blowjobs are illegal in Georgia. You going to stan for that, too?

Are you seriously, with a straight face, arguing that there sits no stage between “shouldn’t drive” and “needs to be cut off at a bar?” That’s...that’s a thing you’re actually arguing?

Pinkham’s law dictates that no matter how logical something in a story happens, some dickwad is going to defend the actions of the douchebags in the story.

No one’s saying he’s a good person. We are saying that it’s kinda cool that he was in the right place, at the right time, to be able take revenge on some dickwads who were dickwads doing something illegal.
Laughing WITH him doesn’t mean we think he’s Jesus. Also, this whole overserving thing is a shit ton more…

As opposed to : Hey, let’s just wait and see if they kill someone on the road before they get a wake up call?

At worst the officers would have verified that they weren’t impaired to drive.

Otherwise, when someone goes out to drink, they should not get in a car, even if they’ve always managed to get home safely after…

So let me make sure I understand your train of thought here correctly: these people willingly order 7 margaritas (each), and make the choice to drive home, but the server is the one who ruined their lives because he called the cops on them?

AND that’s perfectly ok. At worst they lost a few minutes while the officers verified.

Otherwise, the server may have saved a life or two from jackasses who put everyone around them in danger no matter how overly confident they were.

What’s the excuse when you kill someone? “I’m sorry, I’ve always had 7 drinks a night…

Man, I’ve got to thank you for writing something as profoundly stupid as some of the customers I just read about. Just made my day!