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Unbelievable Things Strangers Have Admitted To Me Working As a Bartender

Half Pint Jules
6 min readJan 24, 2022

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With situations so scandalous, even you’ll feel the need to take a shower.

With over a decade in the service industry, I have clocked hours in many different types of hospitality.

Bars, family joints, golf courses, a retirement home, Chuck E Cheese’s (I wish I was kidding), and as different as each of these establishments were, they all had one thing in common.

People love to open up to strangers. And I have been told some pretty inappropriate and wild things over the years.

So behold, a few (of MANY) unbelievable things I’ve ever been told by complete strangers.

The Not-So-Undercover Blind Dates

One night while working at a bar, I noticed a regular customer sitting by himself in the corner of the restaurant.

I approached him, asked if he would be having his usual, and retreated behind the bar to fetch it for him.

As I was heading back to his table with his drink, I noticed a co-worker was leading his wife in the complete opposite direction of his table.

“Oh, I just saw your wife arrive, I don't think the hostess knew you were over here, I’ll go get her”,

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Half Pint Jules
Half Pint Jules

Written by Half Pint Jules

Serial small businesser, total geek for industry talk, strung out most of the time but really, just a SAHWM with a need to talk about it.

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