Comments on: How I became a Publican http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-i-became-a-publican/ Business Women of Opinion! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:12:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: idahorner http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-i-became-a-publican/comment-page-1/#comment-3726 idahorner Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:02:29 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=3710#comment-3726 LOL, you certainly need a sense of humour to put up with all that. The chap who thought he had been to three pubs! that s priceless LOL, you certainly need a sense of humour to put up with all that. The chap who thought he had been to three pubs! that s priceless

]]> By: Sarah Arrow http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-i-became-a-publican/comment-page-1/#comment-3727 Sarah Arrow Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:26:59 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=3710#comment-3727 I could keep you here all night with stories of things my customers got up to. My fave one was the gents toilets flooding, so they had to use the ladies and discovered the ladies had <em>carpet</em>. There was outrage and moaning that carried on for weeks. Even though I had mentioned the bit about they need to keep the urine in the urinals, there was a lot of moaning - until I gave in and brought a carpet remnant and gave one of the locals a few pints to fit it. It lasted one Friday night. It was saturated with urine and it sloshed and it stank and I made them take it up and dispose of it. Just to add, the client of my main pub, the one I mention above were all ABC1s in marketing terminology and they still missed when they aimed ;-) I could keep you here all night with stories of things my customers got up to.

My fave one was the gents toilets flooding, so they had to use the ladies and discovered the ladies had carpet.

There was outrage and moaning that carried on for weeks. Even though I had mentioned the bit about they need to keep the urine in the urinals, there was a lot of moaning – until I gave in and brought a carpet remnant and gave one of the locals a few pints to fit it.

It lasted one Friday night.

It was saturated with urine and it sloshed and it stank and I made them take it up and dispose of it.

Just to add, the client of my main pub, the one I mention above were all ABC1s in marketing terminology and they still missed when they aimed ;-)

]]> By: Sarah Arrow http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-i-became-a-publican/comment-page-1/#comment-3724 Sarah Arrow Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:50:22 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=3710#comment-3724 Nope, sadly I think I outgrew it and what it meant to me. It was constant work all the time, and it screwed my bodyclock up, I got into doing my best work during the evening and still think nothing of calling people at 2am for a chat as that is afternoon for me!<br><br>I think working as a Publican as you get older requires more patience than I have - you are caught in the middle of the community, the brewery and the staff. My diplomacy skills have decreased as the years have gone by, and the children have also changed my outlook. Nope, sadly I think I outgrew it and what it meant to me. It was constant work all the time, and it screwed my bodyclock up, I got into doing my best work during the evening and still think nothing of calling people at 2am for a chat as that is afternoon for me!

I think working as a Publican as you get older requires more patience than I have – you are caught in the middle of the community, the brewery and the staff. My diplomacy skills have decreased as the years have gone by, and the children have also changed my outlook.

]]> By: AnnGodridge http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/how-i-became-a-publican/comment-page-1/#comment-3723 AnnGodridge Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:36:59 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=3710#comment-3723 Wow, I don't think I could have handled all that at twenty, Sarah. <br><br>Do you think you might ever go back to it? Wow, I don't think I could have handled all that at twenty, Sarah.

Do you think you might ever go back to it?

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