On Behalf of Aunty Sue Hodgeson:
"In the olden days the barman of the time Oom Jan Matthee
and Harry Cowley was SO SO STRICT , that parents got a phone call at night during the holidays to check if the laaitie sitting on the barstool with a hardegat houding was in fact ALLOWED to be in the pub and the age was confirmed !!
Bring those days back!!!
Sue "
You anly saying that now Mike because it won't effect you!
With the way you drank as a kid i'm surprised your are laughpoint shooter still around!
quickdop cheers
Very scary to see even underaged girls stone drunk in bars these days. Nobody cares about the moral issue anymore - it's all about the money. Once in a while there might be a little racket about the underaged kids in the pubs, they will be checked for a week or two, then it just relapses back to the f*&@!-it-all mentality again. Most upsetting about this is -- the parents actually give the kids money to go to these places and then they complain about the sometimes horriffic conseqenses. Then they blame the barman -- my viewpoint on this is that the barman is NOT your babysitter or the caretaker of your kids - they are your own responsibility.
who remembers Thomas at Caseys - not one to be messed with - he would get just as snotted as the customers sometimes and unfortunately his short temper when pissed landed him in shit more times than i can remember, but i got to know him quite well when working at the rec club - part of my job was to keep the bars stocked - he was actually a wonderful man with a wicked sense of humour, we got on really well. also Henock at Sporties - just as hardegat, didn't take any crap - gave as good as he got. then there was gentle old Sam at Sporties - what a guy - so patient - an absolute gentleman! Levi (sporties) as well was just as gentle, very shy. I'm sure if you had to sit all of them down, you could get a book out of them all that they witnessed in their time with the drunkards and their antics.
Cannot agree more Dalene .. walk through Claremont on a saturday night , and see the amount of too early "an adult " girls walking in packs , really thinking they the bees knees out for a night on the town .. be afraid parents be afraid ... theres lots of spiking of drinks going on with awful consequences ...
Me working as a barman in Omund ?? .. yes that was fun , did Caseys sportsmans and stauschlager plus lots of functions .. I remember Aaron from sportsmans .. cool headed character ... my best team mate was of course Ronnie Emery , we had a way of working together ... as for the drunk snotkoppe .. they not so much of a problem ,, what about the grownups that seemed to grow horns and the forked tail after a few brandies ??