Last week I had to do some hectic business travel. Duringh a rushed connection in Charlotte, NC I hurried into a bar to slake my thirst. I had just a few minutes to spare, and the bar was busy. A waitress took my order for a gigantic draft beer, brought the drink to me, then departed.
That was when I saw the blatant lip print in Coral Blush on the rim of my beer mug. I was immediately turned off/pissed off/etc.
What would you do in a situation like this? Note, I had no time to go through the normal sequence to get a new glass.
I smoothly turned the mug so that the lipstick was on the other side of the mug, then chugged the beer. I waved for my check, paid the lady with a nice tip, but pointed out the lipstick to her. She was shocked. She offered me my money back, but I told her I drank it and I left.
When I told the story to several other people they all said that they could not/would not drink the beer. What say you?
The same. If I weren’t in a hurry I’d have gotten a new glass, but in a rush? Hell with it – thousands of people have drank from this glass. Big whoop – turn the lip print to the other side and drink away.
The problem is that there are so many long-wearing lipsticks that when they do finally come off some woman’s lip, they may well stick even longer to the glass. I would be willing to bet that some may well survive a hardcore restaurant dishwasher.
In a rush situation like yours I probably would have done the same thing.
I’d have either turned the glass and drank or gave it a hard wipe with a napkin. I don’t think I’m going to catch mouth leprosy from some rogue lipstick stuck to a glass.
I’d probably have asked for a new one because I’m not the kind of person who can finish a drink in a few minutes so if I’m at a bar, chances are I do have time to spare.
Lipstick is murder to get off - you can run a glass through a commercial dishwasher 2 or 3 times and it will still show depending on the brand. For some reason I seem to recall sparkly ones are the worst.
Yup, and a lot of bars use a very half-assed dish-washing approach, anyway. Airport restaurants probably use sterilizing dishwashers, but if you’ve ever been to a regular bar, I’m sure you’ve seen the three sink approach numerous times. This is probably leaving your glasses far dirtier than one whose super-long-wear lipstick survived a dishwasher. I’d have been temporarily grossed out, but drank it anyway. Alcohol kills germs.
Eh, any germs in the class would be killed by the beer. I’d have done the same, if I were in a hurry. If I had time, though, I’d ask for a new drink (hopefully complementary).
Here. I would assume it hadn’t been washed at all and would not drink from it. If there wasn’t enough time to get a replacement, I guess I’d just have to leave.
Out of curiosity, now that you know that a glass can be run through multiple dishwasher cycles and still come out with lipstick on it, does that change your answer?
It would depend on what it looked like exactly. If it looked really faded, like it had been partially removed by soap and water, then I’d probably be fine with it. But if it was smeared on there and looked like the glass hadn’t even been washed at all, then no way.
I assume she is a woman?