So it was my birthday the other week (Ya… me another year older!) and the
wife kindly invited me and for the first part our eldest – Squash out for a
birthday meal….first challenge was getting out the house as for some reason
suddenly (Now get this, It was Grandma was around to baby sit) ASBO had a
fever, Tibbius couldn’t walk and Moo decided to scream the house down like Janet in the rocky horror show when meeting frank-N-Furter, inch by inch we moved to the front door but alas until mummy stepped in to work her magic I got stuck waiting (so I had another beer as it was my birthday) half cut I was summons to the door and we escaped with out to much more grief.
We have a few choices in town but as Squash with us we decided on the local spoons (Wetherspoons) as for one, the great beer selection and secondly, he could proudly announce in school the next day that “I was down the pub last night”
After spending a lifetime trying to work out the menu and whilst ordering I
noticed all the beer prices, when back at the table (why is it when ordering at spoons you always forget the table number) looking again at the marketing table talker I came to realise that the prices of the pints were better than the deals for beer in my local CO-OP and in a couple of prices better than other supermarkets.
Now I know this is not so in other pubs and sadly the Freeholders would love to bring their prices down as fuller pubs build community’s, the managed pubs and leaseholders who are Tied (who don’t have much choice on their prices) keep prices high squeezing the last penny’s out of their customers whilst the stay at home parents get cheap booze from the supermarkets but just for one night I was able to have a few pints and laugh that I was getting change out of a fiver!
