Sometimes you can’t win
Posted on March 28, 2007
Filed Under Rant, Sport, alcohol, customer service, gambling, money, pub |
He’s alive. Yes, isadub is alive but only just. I’ve spent the past few days with the ‘creatives’ and the marketing executives discussing logos and the right shade of blue. They’re lovely people, really, but sometimes you need to take a break and experience some real reality.
So, on the way home, I saw the excellent ‘come-on’ in a bookie’s window:
Bet €10, Win €330
The small print read:
…but only if Ireland beat Slovakia 3-2.
I rang the ‘one who knows‘ about football and gambling and his sage advice was that both teams were ‘shite‘ and ‘pigs would fly‘ before either team could score 2, let alone 3 goals, against any opposition. I took the bet anyway because, if nothing else, I’m an greedy optimist.
Being an optimist, I went for a pint in my local pub to spend my winnings before the match. There’s no way I’d spend good money on beer actually watching the match. One of the barstaff is Polish and she’s very good at her job. However, the regulars are convinced she’s Portuguese but she’s adamant she’s Polish. Sometimes it’s like a pantomime in there - “Oh yes, you are!” “Oh no, I’m not.”
Anyway, an English guy ordered a lager with lime (cordial). She misunderstood him to mean lager with lemonade. He got a bit annoyed at the mistake and mildly shouted, ‘I wanted a lager with lime. The lime comes out of a bottle‘. She got a bit flustered and started muttering under her breath as she re-made his order. I tried to comfort her by making the joke, ‘Bloody foreigners, eh!‘, as I indicated towards the English guy. I thought it was funny/ironic but I’m not sure it was received that way. Oops.
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