Bartenders and servers: little hint:

3. February 2010 by [JP].

A trained investigator is a poor choice of customers to attempt to rip off.
I’m just pointing that out, just in case.

Arrived at the bar at 9pm.
Drank one draft beer at the bar. 4.75
Ordered a second draft beer and proceeded to kick my own ass at pool, 3 games in a row. 4.75
Ordered a mixed drink, 4.25
Slammed said mixed drink, then played 3 additional rounds of pool.
At about 10pm, decided I had enough punishment at my own lack of pool skills.
Sat back at the bar, ordered another draft beer, 4.75 which I drank slowly.
Ordered two shots of Baileys over ice, 5.25 each, total of 10.50 and closed out my tab. Tab was total of 28.75

Ordered a third shot of Baileys, paid for it with my change, and added some cash as a tip.

At this point, I had a zero tab.

Went to the car for additional cash, with the intend on purchasing two additional shots.
Ordered ONE additional shot of Bailey’s. 5.25
Recieved 9.50 in change.

See the problem here?

I called him out on it, and he paid me the 5.25 from his tip bucket.
Which was a pretty big indicator that he had in fact tried to rip me off, rather then made an accounting error or overcharged me accidentally.

I’m going to go discuss his poor judgement with his boss tomorrow. The only thing that sucks, is this is one of two bars in Albuquerque that I actually LIKE, and the other one is loud, expensive, and way too yuppie for me in general. So, this may actually affect me more then I want it to, but oh well. Its the right thing.
Besides, I only drink like once every few months anyway.

BTW, heres the calculation that I did to determine how intoxicated I was by the end of the night.
First 90 minutes, I consumed 3 standard drinks. At 190 pounds, my BAC was probably in the .07 to .08 range. I was legally drunk. (And I could feel it, mostly in my lousy pool shots)
Second 60 minutes, I consumed 4 additional standard drinks. This probably brought my BAC to a peak of .12 to .15
Well over the legal limit. Which was probably what he was counting on, for me not to notice him ripping me off.

Too bad for him, i’m very observant, even under the influance of alcohol.

A shitty pool player… good thing I wasnt playing anyone else…

But still observant enough to know when something isnt right.

Ironic for him, i probably would have tipped him at least 5 or 6 additional bucks or more when I was done, so he made less money then if he was honest.

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