I have a friend in the south, a 6th Dan in karate, who rang
me up to ask me to help him out with a dilemma. He
regularly visited a local pub and every time he did there was
a particular chap in there who stared him out in a
challenging manner. You know the type, knuckles dragging
along the floor, IQ of a plant.
'What should I do?' he asked.
'Drink somewhere else where the clientele are a little more
intelligent,' I replied.
It really is that simple. If a pub is so rough that strangers
want to stare at me for no other reason than they don't like
the look of my face, then I do not want to drink there.
Especially when you consider that most areas have hundreds
of public houses to choose from. You might argue that you
have every right to drink in that place and are not prepared
to drink somewhere else, and that would be your right. But I
come back to my original point, why would you want to
defend a spot by a bar in a shit hole as contentious as that?
Drink