'I poured him the cheap $8 wine... the rest of the day': Barman gets petty payback against a guest after he takes 'open bar' way too literally and climbs behind the bar to steal drinks

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Aug 27, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

The first thing you learn when you turn 21 is that you're never (EVER) allowed to go behind the bar. Unless it's a dire emergency, the zone behind the bar is a sacred, untouchable place– it's for the barman and the barman alone. It's the ultimate bar-hopping faux pas to invade the bartender's area. Period. 

However, spirits and bevvies can get the best of any guest and for some self-important folks, they feel that this cardinal rule is only a suggestion. In this case, a guest at a VIP event took the 'open bar' a little too literally, scrambling towards the bar-back when the bartender stepped away for 45 seconds, stealing a bottle of their most expensive vino. 

The barman was furious. 

Naturally, the one, sacred rule of bartending was broken, so the bartender decided to get a little payback against the disrespectful guest, using the only power-flex he could. Scroll for the full story of how this bartender used his spirited privileges to control the flow, and the quality, of the drinks that a certain impolite guest could acquire. For more, read on about more entitled customers in this story of a contractor who's client thought they knew more about construction than him, costing them $12,000 extra because of mis-measurement. 

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    Font - Posted by u/Accidentalgyp21 1 day ago 2404 Poured him the cheap $8 wine all day
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    Font - I was working bar at a VIP event and went to the fridge to get more stock. I was gone maybe 45 seconds and in that time, some self- important AH came behind the bar, cracked a bottle of
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    Font - expensive white and poured himself two huge glasses. The guests all knew they were not supposed to go behind or access the bar.
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    Font - It was an open bar with a lot of expensive wine. I made sure that everytime he came to the bar for the rest of the day I served him Jacob's
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    Font - Creek (nasty cheap wine) irregardless what he asked for. Was my own personal f@$# you.
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    Font - OldAdministration 735 1 day ago Any respectable alcoholic knows you stay away from the back of the bar. We may be drunks but we have manners.
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    Human body - USMCWrangler. 1 day ago There are rules that are to be respected.
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    Font - HisDudeness316. 1 day ago Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is drinking. There are rules.
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    Font - platypossamous 1 day ago Don't p off the bartender really is the most important rule of any drinking establishment
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    Font - Fatpeoplelikebutter9 - 1 day ago Going behind my bar is the fastest way for me tp cut you off. You are OBVIOUSLY way too drunk, and NEED to be cut off. Because who in their right mind would EVER come back behind a bar? That could get the bartender fired!
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    Font - HerfDog58 1 day ago . When I worked as a doorman, and people would give me cr about checking their ID, I would ask "Which 2 people do you never poff in a bar?" Most of them got the first, but rarely the second:
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    Font - 1 - the bartender, cuz they can either ignore you when you try to get a drink, or make it weak, or with sh y well booze.
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    Font - 2- the will just turn you away, while all your "friends" leave you and go have a good time in the bar. doorman, cuz they
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    Font - . MydniteSon 1 day ago. edited 19 hr. ago My father taught me a very important lesson in life: "Above all else, always tip your barber and your bartender."
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    Font - . nosaj23e 1 day ago Especially wine drinkers, winos are supposed to be sophisticated alcoholics. 10 Reply Share Lonerider2020 - 1 day ago "Professionals have standards!"
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    Font - fuckeryoflewd 1 day ago Be polite SomeoneID Reply Share Be efficient 12 . 1 day ago . Reply Share TWalker014 1 day ago And have a plan to outdrink anyone you meet.
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    Font - HurryingBog3049 +1. 1 day ago The fact that he never noticed the difference only meant that it's just about the cost to him and not the quality of the wine Should have his membership revoked if he has no clue
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    Font - MotherAd3644. 1 day ago. edited 21 hr. ago Nobody knows the difference. It's all pretentious losers trying to act fancy. It all tastes like p s.
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    Font - samuelawaters1987 1 day ago Ummmmm no. Just because you have a toddlers palate doesn't mean we all do
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    Human body - Craic_hoor_on_tour 1 day ago Jacobs Creek is noticeably awful though.
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    Rectangle - +2. 1 day ago kaycollins27 After the first couple of glasses, the amateur connoisseur's taste buds are on vacay.
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    Light - "I was gone maybe 45 seconds II
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