Just A Thought Re: The Pub And The Furure.

[alavahalf]

Tonight I got the text you cant refuse .. 'Fancy a quickie'
It was from my busty neighbour who lives next door .... no it wasn't !

Now I have your attention, it was actualy an invite from my son to head towards the pub.
The following texts went .. have you booked a table.. yes for 5..00 .. count me in.. pick you up at 4.55.
The end result was, we were in the pub at 5.00. We were allocated a table. We ordered 2 pints using an app, they arrived within 2 minutes. Over the next hour and a half this process was repeated 5 times without a flaw. A masked lady turned up at the table and our only input was to remove the glasses of frothy liquid from her tray.
Our lift home arrived five minutes late .. I may well let the wife off with just a warning!
My observation was .. forget a cashless society .. I didn't even need my wallet and everything went without a flaw .. will this be the way forward after Covid ?
Personally I couldn't imgine things being any easier !

[alavahalf]

Sorry .. Future...!

[Mamyalynne]

Glad you enjoyed and all went to plan, sounds well organised.

[DTCwordfan]

A guy walks into Alava's pub with a giraffe and says, "A Belhaven beer for me, and one for the giraffe, please."
So they proceed to drink.

Then: "...a Glenkinchie whisky for me and one for the giraffe, too" And they keep drinking all evening.

Finally the giraffe passes out on the floor of the bar. The guy pays the tab and gets up to leave. The bartender shouts out,

"Hey! You're not going to leave that lying on the floor, are you?" The guy replies

"That's not a lion, Mac... it's a giraffe."

[Jackdaw33]

Posted last night, but at least your version is shorter.

[alavahalf]

Mamya it was absolutely fault free and I doubt they will drop this post Covid .. it really streamlines getting a pint.
No more trying to catch the bar staffs eye from behind someones shoulder as they plough through the never ending queue of punters.
A very relaxing experience !

[Mamyalynne]

Smashing.

[Mamyalynne]

That Graffe has been on AB a long time, must have sobered up by now.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Jokes/Question771493.html

[Mamyalynne]

Giraffe, oops

[jourdain2]

Sounds dire to me - I like to go with the flow. How awful to just go and not to chat to anyone.

[Peter Pedant]

er yes or no
also went out for the last time
the NHS QR thingey of course did not pick up
the ordering by phone - is so bad we did it with paper

and paid cashless - the clerk went over the bill to make sure I had not been double charged

all outside

I learnt he russian for finished - gatov

[alavahalf]

@ 21.05 .. at what point did I say we didn't talk to anyone ?
Who said we didn't chat to anyone .. we picked up some
work and came away thinking it was an excellent 90 minutes ! .. you dont need to drag it out to class it as quality time. My son works above 90 + hrs a week and for some time I have been banging in 50+.
Dire is not how we would class it !

[Old_Geezer]

No it's not the way after Covid. If things seem too good to be true then you're missing something. Exclusively cashless transactions is a highly risky strategy. Plus you would be fooling yourself if you thought you were getting a good feel of how much of your wealth you were spending and at what rate. It's all too easy to buy buy buy when there is no experience of money going out of your account.

[jourdain2]

The way you described it sounded soulless, mechanical and joyless, alavahalf. Sorry if I was wrong and it was, as you say, fun. I don't see what it has to do with how long anyone works, I just like to be able to say let's go for a drink and I don't fancy living a life of appointments.

[alavahalf]

OG .. it was about a fiver a pint.. I will lose no sleep tonight over £30.

[ummmm]

It might be OK for the occasional pub goers. It won't last for the regulars.

[rockyracoon]

I don’t think the pubs could afford to stay open like that permanently, not with the social distancing put in place. Not enough customers being relieved of cash.

[Sunk]

alavahalf

Congratulations on not being in Liverpool.
Make the most of it, you could [or probably will be] in Tier 3 within a month,
It might be easy for you now, but big brother is coming for you ;-)

[royfromaus]

I'm not allowed to sit with my son in the pub.

[Peter Pedant]

well we were outside er alone
two police horses went past (clearly they had policemen perched on top) and two beggars

but it was good to get out

[New Judge]

I've been using pub "apps" long before Covid came along. The process is excellent. No queuing at the bar; no cash to worry about; no worry of losing your seat if you're alone; no carting beers through the pub to your table. Wat's not to like.

If there are to be any long term advantages to be gained from this fiasco one of them might be that table service in pubs becomes permanent. I'd not advocate making ordering by app or cashless payment mandatory (though I haven't paid cash in a pub since contactless payment cards were introduced). But my days of queuing at the bar are long gone.