When there's drinking involved, your bad habits tend to be amplified.
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19 terrible things bartenders wish you would stop doing
Bartenders weighed in on the most annoying habits they've seen among customers, from finger-snapping to gum-leaving to ordering all wrong.
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If you have any sympathy for your bartender, you'd make an effort to do better.
To help you out, we asked bartenders everywhere to share the, and more than 30 were happy to chime in.
Here are 19 things you may not have even known you were doing wrong this whole time.
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Clicking or snapping your fingers at them
"Say excuse me, politely putting your hand up without waving it in the air. Just wait your turn. We see you, I promise. Never snap your fingers."
Yelling at bartenders to get a drink made right away
Waving to get the bartender's attention
For that matter, any obnoxious attempt to get their attention
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Unless it's kid-friendly, bringing your baby into a bar
Asking for 'whatever' and not meaning it
Expecting free drinks
Using a credit card to pay for a single drink
Closing your tab every time you order something
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Not ordering everything at once
Hitting on your bartender
Using your cell phone while ordering
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Spreading your germs
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Asking, 'What beer do you have?'
"Most of the places I've worked ins more than 10 drafts, bottles, and cans of beer."
Treating your bartender like a robot
Asking for a charge
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"No, I will not charge your phone!"
Not knowing where you are
Asking for that one drink you had that one time that you don't remember the name of
"Don't say, 'U
Not tipping well
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