Buy Backs and the Ignorant People Who Expect Them

Raging Bull recipe
2 1/2 cl Kahlua® coffee liqueur
2 1/2 cl sambuca
1 cl 1800® Tequila

Layer in a shot glass; in order.

For all of you who don't know what a buy back is; a buy back is when the bar buys a customer back a drink after their fourth or fifth drink. This usually occurs only if the person is a regular at the bar (as in they come to the bar at least 6 days a week) or if the person is friend's with the owner of the bar which in my case, includes just about EVERYONE!

This normally becomes a problem on Friday nights when my coworker "Dick" and I are serving a decent size crowd of hooligans all of which have some sort of tie with the owner,"Chad". Whether they grew up with Chad or just happened to fix his toilet one day, they think that they deserve free drinks. Dick and I often hook people up (bartender slang for taking drinks off of tabs) with the expectation that they will leave a generous tip, however, this doesn't always work out the way we want it to. Unfortunately, there are quite a few ignorant regulars that think they are privileged and deserving of having their tab cut down to no more than $20 when they've had at least 8 drinks. Now that is just flat out ridiculous!

At 2:30am when it's time to do "last call" on all drinks, we start to hand out the dreadful tabs in hopes that the hooligans don't start to riot about owing $25 instead of $35. The appreciative ones hand us the money along with a tip appropriate to the original price and sometimes even more. The others are the ones that we need to worry about. They get so intoxicated that they start to argue about how many drinks they ordered or that we didn't hook them up enough. At this point, I start to curse them out in my head,"Well maybe if you didn't have so much to drink your tab wouldn't be so much you stupid asshole!". The funny thing is that Dick will actually say these things to their face. Yes! Go Team Bartender! Eventually, the inebriated fools will pay their $30 tabs and leave us a lousy $4 tip.

It is right then and there that I wish I could transform myself into a raging bull and charge the ignorant customers right out of the bar.