Bossk, actually, all G-Man restaurants are quite decent,with good pub food. It has a very nice family atmosphere for the most part, except when jackasses like the smoking college boy come around and screw things up.
I am working the door/security in a similar college bar/restaurant place at the moment. If this had happened as you described it and you had told me the story, those guys would have been at the VERY least, moved to the bar (whether there were seats there or not—they can stand) and more likely, I would have asked them to leave.
It may be a bar/restaurant/whatever, but there are standards of behaviour and this was unacceptable.
HOWEVER, I would have preferred to hear about it it the first time it happened. If I have the history of telling them once already (officially), it is a lot easier to bounce them when their idiocy shows. They did not deserve a pitcher of beer to compensate them for not smoking in a NON smoking section!
How about this one: Thursday night, there was a line for the guys bathroom and none outside the womens’ restroom. a woman came up to me and told me that there were guys in their bathroom. I went in and observed two morons pissing in the SINK and laughing!
I was pretty pissed - there were women in the stalls and they were afraid to come out :mad:
So I called the boss, hauled these two ass clwons out and made them sit on the floor for five minutes in the mens room- I made a point of telling people that they were having a “timeout” 
Let me tell you, sitting on that nasty floor for five minutes was punishment enough…what do you suppose a pair of pants costs?
Then we kicked them and all their dumb ass friends out.
Well, the real trick is to use your daughter as a weapon. Properly used, a small child can do more damage than a daisy cutter. How old is the little Scyllite? If she’s still an infant, give her her bottle, then put her on your shoulder and burp her till she pukes down the back of the jerk’s collar. If she’s too old for that, carry one of her pointier toys with you. When the guy isn’t looking, bounce it off the back of his head as hard as you can, then turn around and scold your daughter for throwing her toys. Since your back is to the jerk in question, make funny faces so she knows she’s not really in trouble.
Or you could be a total fucking loser and act like an adult. But what fun is that?
I think Scylet is about what-three?
Scylla count me in with the people who think you should have called a manager-they were smoking in a NON-SMOKING section. Or you could have told them you were allergic, or something like that.
Lousy fucking people like that suck.
Yeah, speaking to the manager would have been a great idea had I thought of it.
And no, I fanstasizing violence, but I just would have parked myself in his booth and said threatening things.
Well, since it’s a college bar, sure. Although, this tactic probably won’t work as well in a bar peopled with bikers and longshoremen.
Do bars peopled with bikers and longshoremen HAVE non-smoking sections?
First of all, way to keep your cool Scylla. Irritating as it was, I don’t think the situation (or ANY situation really) is worthy of a fist fight. Seems like a juvenile solution. Though, of course, you know this and are only admitting to fantasies of violence, not wishes for reality.
However, I have to say that rude smokers, or those who defend their “rights as smokers” piss me off to NO end. Seriously.
Look, I’m all for individual freedom. I’m quite liberal about it, in fact. If you wish to go home and shoot heroin into each of your brain cells one by one that’s hunky dory with me. Want to sniff paint? Drink yourself into unconsciousness? Have at it!
Unfortunately, I tend to believe that my personal freedom to BREATH without inhaling your exhaust overrides your personal freedom to give yourself lung cancer in a restaurant. I sympathize with your habit…really I do. I’ve got a chocolate habit myself. I know how hard it is to give up such things, I know you’re addicted, I feel your pain.
But there are other places for you to practice your art that don’t involve me. I don’t want my food tasting like your nico-fix. I don’t want to leave with a hacking cough. Much like you, Scylla, I don’t want my recently-quit friend to be tempted beyond the point of no return.
A person’s “right to smoke” should not involve ME. So please take your fucking habit somewhere outside of my personal space.
Whew. I feel better now.
-L
Feel your pain.
Hope to display the same wisdom and
restraint in a similar situation.
You’re a good guy Scylla.
And more importantly, a good father.
Always tattle on the assholes Scylla. Although those people were probably the bread-n-butter of the establishment, management is always looking for a way to get rid of the jerks. If they are jerks to you, be darn sure that they are jerks to the staff as well.
I bounced door at a local restaurant while at college. ANYTIME there were problems caused by jerks, they were quickly ousted.
-Tcat
Wow! You even bought them beer. That’s just about the classiest and most friendly way I’ve ever heard of anyone asking some kid who’s breaking the rules to cut it out. Congrats on that.
And here in VT there is no longer such a thing as a smoking section in restaurants (anything with a restaurant license is not allowed to have smoking sections).