5. You Can Spot Trouble Brewing An Hour Before It Starts
Years spent in the company of alcoholics, drunks, binge-drinkers, daily drinkers, social drinkers, casuals who cant hold their vodka and people who should be legally prohibited from drinking spirits altogether well, its given you the pub culture equivalent of a danger sense. You're like one of those old men that can tell there's a storm coming because their knees start aching, or something. The moment that a potential troublemaker comes in, you get a vibe - strong enough to nod to the boys and girls on the door to keep an eye on them. And the weird thing is, youre so rarely wrong about it that you come to trust your instincts, like Spider-Man trusts his spider-sense. Right now, the people reading this whove never worked in a pub are scoffing slightly. Meanwhile, the people whove racked up some time behind the bar are nodding and smiling ever so slightly to themselves.
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