Thursday, 28 January 2010

Confessions of an Australian Bar Maid: Character Study - The Complainer

When working at night you come across many different types of characters. People change when the sun goes down. They let loose, discard their inhibitions and let their inner night creature emerge, no matter how scary they may be. As part of this series I will be doing regular studies on not only the demographics that come out to play but the types of creatures you have to deal with on a regular basis. Some are pretty, some angry, some lovely and some straight up crazy, but rest assured, all are entertaining.


THE COMPLAINER:
  • Is of the general mind that you are a complete moron who is out to rip them off on behalf of ‘the establishment’
  • No matter how fast you serve them you’ve always served the person before them out of turn and they’ve been waiting too long
  • Their drink is always too warm, small, has too much ice or too much head
  • Of the 50+ drinks you have on offer they like none of them and proceed to ask for everything you don’t stock
  • When it comes to paying it is always too expensive, and apparently berating you and alerting everyone around them to the fact that you personally are ripping them off is going to make it cheaper
  • When given their change they are always unimpressed with the amount of coins given (this of course may have been done on purpose, with intent to annoy)
  • They will then complain their way through the crowd at the packed bar moaning about spilling their drink, where to stand, there’s too many people, they can’t see – and so on and so forth

SUMMARY:
Always there, always annoying, always alone. I wonder why?…

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