Bartender gets back at mid-50s customer who calls her "entitled": 'Their faces were priceless'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Oct 17, 2025 3:00 PM EDT

When this crowd of bar-goers got cranky, they started taking out their frustrations on the one person who could help them. Too bad they wouldn't listen!

Waiting for a long time in a long line can make anyone go a little crazy. You've only got one goal: get to the front of the line. For these people, that meant being let into a bar establishment, so there might have also been issues with waiting in the weather. There's plenty you can do to pass the time while waiting, like talking to the people around you, but it can also give you tunnel vision, making you focus only on getting to the front, no matter what. 

People in large groups can also get kind of impolite, perhaps because there are so many strangers around them that they think their actions don't matter. This guy learned that the hard way! He took out his frustrations on the one person who could've made the line move, and he was super impolite to her. He even called her a person who felt entitled to skip lines, as if she did this all the time just for her own selfish purposes. 

Luckily, though, as this bartender detailed below, some of the regulars came to her rescue. I wonder if next time he's in a situation like this, the customer will think twice before harshly judging someone! Both he and the bartender have a good story to tell… although the customer might too embarrassed to tell his side of things. 

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    I worked at a bar which one day had a huge event coming up. I arrived one hour before opening time to start my shift, when I already saw a line of roundabout 50
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    people outside the bar. What a fun surprise. As I was fighting my way through the crowd, a guy in his 50ies rather harshly stepped in my way
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    and even nudged me off balance. He told me to wait in line like everyone else. I tried to tell him that I work there, but he wasn't having it. Since I'm small and he's not, I
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    wasn't even able to see the bouncer (we had a glass front) to make him open the door. So I just stood there.
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    The group around this guy loudly dropped passive- agressive comments regarding "people who think are entitled to skip lines", and how they'd be "ashamed
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    of themselves to just stand there like that when being busted", which I just ignored. Then, one of my regulars tapped my shoulder: "Hey, aren't you working tonight?"
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    "Yeah, but those guys won't let me pass, and I'm too small to see (bouncer). So I figured, if they want to make me wait to start my shift, then they'll probably be
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    fine to wait for their beer, too. I'll just do the prep work once I'm in." Their faces were priceless. Bonus points for my regulars to tear
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    them a new one for hindering "the best bartender there is" to do her job.
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    Mouthy guy and his friend group apologized several times all through the night and left a nice tip.
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    bla... I would have told the bouncer to find and destroy (kick out)
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    Snackgirl_Currywurst OP I stood there for like 5 minutes or so. Regulars came to my rescue rather quickly. I'm not kicking out well paying customers before they could even enter just for having a lapse in judgement and apologizing after. I'd rather save everyone the hassle.
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    lord... At least they're decent people if they apologize and give you big tips afterwards.
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    Also nice of you OP not escalating further.
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