Have you actually ever been in a bar?
Obviously Shagnasty never saw Clockwork Orange.
If they don’t have ginger ale on tap, they will give you Sprite with a splash of Coke in it.
Cranberry & soda, or coffee, or club soda with a lime.
Or whatever I feel like.
Many, many bars where many others would hesitate to venture and many regretted having gone.
Why. You quoted me out of context were I said the Murine was not true but I have heard it from bartenders and waitress’ for years.
If you have a point, make it.
I’m not certain of your meaning but I don’t think anyone has ever confused me with any form of “undercover agent”. I often go to certain bars because that is were large numbers of old friends can be found. I no longer drink to any appreciable amount, especially if riding or driving. But if you need it, you can have some of my “mandated ability to go there.” As to “tell them the truth” yeah, I do, and fuck 'em if they don’t like it but I’d just as soon avoid the hassel if possible.
If they don’t have ginger ale, but didn’t tell me and just gave me Sprite with a splash of Coke, I’d be fucking pissed. Tell me you don’t have ginger ale, but don’t give me something else I didn’t order, dammit!
I usually ask for ginger ale, by the way.
Just remember. If you order a mixed vigin drink, you should still tip as if it was normal. It’s kind of rude to make them spend five minutes making something, and them tip based on the fact without alchohol it only costs a buck.
On the rare occasion I find myself in a drinking situation, if it’s somewhat upscale, I’ll ask the bartender if he can make a Shirley Temple (and yes, I do order it by name). On the even rarer occasion that it’s just some shady hole-in-the-wall bar, where most folks are just drinking whatever beer is cheapest, a cola (mixed drinks seem somewhat out of place, in such an establishment).
And I’d always understood a Shirley Temple to be made with ginger ale, not lemon-lime, and about half the Google results seem to agree with me. But, of course, as others have lamented, many bars don’t have ginger ale. Everyone agrees on the grenadine, but grenadine is what most folks think cherry tastes like, anyway, and there’s usually a maraschino cherry garnishing the drink.
Diet Coke with a slice of lemon. Upon occasion, I’ll get a virgin Pina Colada.
Wow, what bars do you go to where anything only costs a buck? 
Seriously, a virgin drink will probably only cost about $1 less than a normal, assuming it’s just a drink that just uses well alcohol and only one or two of them, and not something real simple like a rum and coke or screwdriver, since a virgin of those is just OJ and coke, respectively (though a soda in a bar still costs like $2 for 1/4 the amount you get in a restaurant where it’s $1.50 with unlimited refils.)
But since a virgin daquir takes almost as much work for the bartender, and still uses lots of ingredients, they will probably only knock off a buck or two for a virgin, still costing you like $5 or $6 (daquris tend to be the more expensive mixed drinks at $7-$9 at an average bar, in my experience.) And yeah, tip them as normal for a complex virgin drink (which tends to be $1 for a drink.) But just for a soda, I say don’t tip unless you get a lot of them, and even then I would just tip like $1 for every three or four. That’s just me, though.
Pepsi or lemonade, depending on whether I want to be caffeinated or not.
We don’t take kindly to your kind in bars. Unborn children should be at home, in the womb.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system! I’m being repressed!
On Friday, I went to a bar for the first time in about 20 years. A real, authentic, dyed-in-the-wool blues joint in the middle of nowhere. They had beer, or Coke. I had Coke.
That’s a favorite of mine (in fact I prefer it to a real one). Also virgin daiquiri or virgin pina colada (sorry, don’t know how to make that squiggly thing on top of the ‘n’). I’ve occasionally caught the bartender / waitperson in an “oops” when they’ve sent a standard drink vs. the virgin variety. Since my nondrinking is usually by choice rather than necessity (medically mandated, recovering alcoholic, religious choice or whatever) it’s no huge deal for me to get a sip of booze by mistake, however it’s rather annoying.
Typo Knig has been known to order tonic+lime. I’ve occasionally swigged that by mistake and blech!!
A bar that doesn’t have ginger ale is unprepared to offer a Jack & Ginger, and should thus be fled immediately, on principle, whether you’re drinking or not.
I order Red Bull. If I’m the designated driver, that will definitely keep me awake.
If I am not “drinking”, I order vodka/tonic but do not ingest it. I’m not really sure why I do that, but that’s what I do! Sometimes it works out because my mood changes and, why look, it’s a drink!
Hell, I’ve been threatened with Visine in the drink, myself.
Ah, I miss the Red Room, I gotta get back to Santa Cruz.