How To Make Friends With a Bartender

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Turn your favorite bar into a home away from home.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Neighborhood watering hole
Bartender
Good attitude
Good joke or bit of trivia (optional)

Step 1: Smile & wait patiently

Approach the bar, smile, and—most importantly—wait patiently for the bartender to approach.

Step 2: Be polite

Be polite. The bartender is a server, not a servant.

Step 3: Make conversation

If he isn't busy, make some conversation. Avoid lengthy philosophical treatises in favor of a funny story from your workday or a recap of a great book you just read.

Tip: Share a fun bit of trivia or a good joke. Bartenders love to pass them on and will appreciate a customer who provides new material.

Step 4: Be upbeat

Be upbeat. Contrary to popular belief, pouring out your troubles to the person pouring your pint is not always appropriate.

Step 5: Don't be a pest

If the bartender is busy, don't be a pest or chatter incessantly while he or she is trying to turn out drinks. Keep in mind that the server is at work.

Step 6: Tip generously

The quickest way into a bartender's good graces is a generous tip!

Tip: Don't ask for free drinks. A bartender can't always provide them and won't look kindly on someone who always has his hand out.

Step 7: Invite him out

To seal the deal, ask him or her to join you and your friends for a nightcap...at another bar, of course.

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[chummychizzle]

make a video on how to get out of jail

[undertake782]

Wow, what next? How to make regular friends? Wait can you make a vid on how to make regular friends!?

[fimbles101]

How to make friends with a bartender.

Dont puke,  Drink up and get the fook out at closing time,

[muoch10]

what if the bartender is not a bartender but a bunny rabbit?

[DaveWreckingCrew]

@chummychizzle Step 1: Wait.

[Minan3]

What the hell are friends? No one can not even trust me, but it's okay for someone else to allure them. This is problematic, I may give up talking to people. I'm just tired of the countless rejections.

[MrJoped]

Lmao the bartender just doesn't give a single fuck

[MrGuitarphenomenon]

@chummychizzle call the monopoly man

[FirePokemonLegend]

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[Mrimagangster]

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[Minan3]

lol when the camera is on the bartender, it looks like he's trying not to laugh XD

[bbbbbb222222]

if I have to pay for it, then I'm not really making him my friend, am I?