Grumpy Granger's

06-02-2010

It would seem that in this day and age certain publicans seem to think that manners are something that happen to other people and unless you are paying them for a pint they don't need to treat you with anything less than contempt.

See today I went to the Ireland v Italy opening match of the 2010 Six Nations with the lady friend as I mentioned yesterday was going to happen. It was a pretty awesome experience (despite watching rugby for five years I have never gone to a match) and even though the second half was a poor game rugby wise overall it was a great match to watch. Really enjoyed it. The crowd, the songs, the cheers, the boos, the shouts at how blind the ref was. All brilliant.

The lady friend's auntie and young cousin were also coming down to watch the match and had rang ahead the day before to see if we wanted to get breakfast together and head to the game at the same time. Being nice folks that we are a plan was formed and off we went.

We met the auntie and kid at the train station then decided to go and find some place that had breakfast still on the go. I made the mistake of thinking that Granger's beside the train station did an all day breakfast, but it turns out that the stop at noon. However as we walked in the door it had literally just gone twelve and the lady decided to ask the guy behind the counter if the breakfast had fully stopped.

He laughed at her and said it had in something coming close to condescending and then moved on to deal with the next customer.

We four had a quick yap and figured why not stay and get some pub grub by way of breakfast/lunch. The lady once again asked the man about getting a menu to order our meals from. Again the laugh and he said that we couldn't order food for the area we were sitting in and had to move into the next room.

This room was full.

By now we were all figuring that it was time to move but the lady spoke with a waitress and she said that we could have our food wherever and to sit down and she would bring us menus.

Menus came, we ordered, life was good.

Now, the place was fairly busy and the poor waitress appeared to be the only one handling food stuff because she was running around and sweating. However after about an hour we had no sign of our food coming at all and time was not on our side if we were to make it to the match before kick off.

The lady, having work in restaurants before, decided to give the girl a break and just asked her politely as she passed about our order.

The girl was flustered that she hadn't brought it out, said there had been a small mix up and that it was being prepared now.

Two minutes later the ignorant (for there is no other way to describe him) barman comes to our table.

"Well folks, there has been a mix up with your order. This is table three and there is a table three in there as well and your order went there. So you can either cancel it or we can start to cook it now."

Now. I was thinking, what are the chances that both tables had four people at them and that both tables ordered the exact same meals? Four people four meals? That is some crazy maths to work out the probability of it occurring (like 16 in a million) but fair enough. However we wouldn't be able to wait for the meal to be made from scratch, have time to eat it, and still be on the train for the kick off. So we explained that to him. This didn't seem to please him so I just said.

"I think we will have to cancel it if we are to get to the match on time."

Did he apologise for the mix up? Did he offer to let our bill for drinks go unpaid? Did he fuck! He just stood up and walked away like a spoilt child.

"Fine!"

And off he goes without another word spoken.

So we left without paying for the drinks. Serves the prick right if you ask me. Manners, a use of the word "sorry" for making us wait. But nothing of the sort. Basically we had offended him by having to catch a train that he was making us late for in the first place.

So if you are ever in Dublin city and walk past Granger's pub at the bottom of Tabolt Street do yourself a favour and keep on walking in search of a much friendly pub down the road.

Since this website can appear at the top of a google search I am going to figure that my little rant will appear to somebody someday searching about that pub. Take heed of what I just said, they are rude in there.

Blue_jester


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