29 Rules of Drinking

[Lush City]

I have broken many of these rules.
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[Hugh]

9. If your friend buys the first round, you buy the second. Continue the back-and-forth from there.

I HATE this rule. You buy your own drinks, I'll buy my own drinks. One of my acquaintances always buys me a drink if he sees me at a bar. He even pays for another drink right before he leaves. And since he is a perpetual pub crawler, he usually leaves before I can buy him a drink. But even then, when the situation arises where I do have an opportunity to buy him a round, he tries to shrug it off like I don't owe him anything. Also - he is a bartender. When I go to his bar, he often buys my first drink when I walk in, and sometimes more after that. But since he's behind the bar, I can't buy him one.

During Christmastime I secretly paid for a drink for someone I don't know. He sips Wild Turkey alone on the smoking patio, not watching television, not socializing. My kind of drunk. The last I heard of him, he had to be picked up out of the street in front of the bar because he had fallen down. Nobody knew how he was doing after that.

[scream ale]

I thought there were 86 rules?

[Badfellow]

Rules are for squares, man.

[Rye and Coke]

Rules are for squares, man.

Except for the Rule of Thumb, which is only for assholes and vaginas

... as long as you clip your nails

We're not animals after all.

[oettinger]

We're not animals after all.

You`ve never seen me drink for more than a week straight I suppose

[Lush City]

9. If your friend buys the first round, you buy the second. Continue the back-and-forth from there.

I HATE this rule. You buy your own drinks, I'll buy my own drinks. One of my acquaintances always buys me a drink if he sees me at a bar. He even pays for another drink right before he leaves. And since he is a perpetual pub crawler, he usually leaves before I can buy him a drink. But even then, when the situation arises where I do have an opportunity to buy him a round, he tries to shrug it off like I don't owe him anything. Also - he is a bartender. When I go to his bar, he often buys my first drink when I walk in, and sometimes more after that. But since he's behind the bar, I can't buy him one.

During Christmastime I secretly paid for a drink for someone I don't know. He sips Wild Turkey alone on the smoking patio, not watching television, not socializing. My kind of drunk. The last I heard of him, he had to be picked up out of the street in front of the bar because he had fallen down. Nobody knew how he was doing after that.

So, what are you complaining about? I don't have friends like that anymore. They will treat you like royalty because they are in a position to do so. Why resist?