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Should Pub Landlords Rely on Fruities As Their Livelihood?...
06 November 2007 - 09:49 PM
I went into a pub in the middle of Arthur Street this evening, and the moment I entered, I was threatened by the landlord of another pub (so I presume, from his dialogue), and told "No you don't! I'd better tell you now, you and fruit machines don't mix round here, you've been scamming all the pubs in the area..." {not true!} "...you done my pub, you done my mate's pub round the corner, you ain't doing this pub, you c***!" - he was shouting and swearing in full view of about ten other customers (the barmaid was only about 5 foot, she was quite rightly staying well out of it, or maybe she'd already asked him to have a word 'cos she'd seen me playing once too often!...), and I'd not even touched the machine yet (Space Raiders @ 74%, FYI, MV).
I tried to explain that I wasn't scamming anyone or anything, but, as many regular pub players on here will testify, there's no reasoning with these paranoid idiots - once they get an idea like that into their head, it's set in stone that you're a low-down cheating thief! But this mug went on about "threatening my f*****g livelihood", and eventually had to be led off by his mate to get some air and calm down for five minutes (and probably have a little cry
) ...
But seriously, this is really quite insane, I mean:-
a) if fruit machines are really your livelihood, you're an arcade, not a pub;
if winning out of a pub machine threatens the pub's livelihood, the pub is already in deep trouble;
c) any publican who puts a gaming machine on their premises for customers to play is also gambling - and if they don't like people winning out of their machine, they shouldn't have them there in the first place!
As I was outnumbered in a not-so-familiar pub, I backed down (this time!), finished my drink (which they'd waited for me to pay for before rounding on me!), and f***ed off fuming at this 'guilty by say-so' treatment - some old bird was on it pretty much the whole time anyway, she might have jumped on to keep me off it, you know how devious some c***s are...)
Pubs' profit margins can't be that thin, surely, that the odd £25 win for £10 in every 2-3 days can make the difference between the owners' kids getting fed tonight or not - and anyway, someone else will lose on it, that's the nature of the beast...
I tried to explain that I wasn't scamming anyone or anything, but, as many regular pub players on here will testify, there's no reasoning with these paranoid idiots - once they get an idea like that into their head, it's set in stone that you're a low-down cheating thief! But this mug went on about "threatening my f*****g livelihood", and eventually had to be led off by his mate to get some air and calm down for five minutes (and probably have a little cry
) ...But seriously, this is really quite insane, I mean:-
a) if fruit machines are really your livelihood, you're an arcade, not a pub;
if winning out of a pub machine threatens the pub's livelihood, the pub is already in deep trouble;c) any publican who puts a gaming machine on their premises for customers to play is also gambling - and if they don't like people winning out of their machine, they shouldn't have them there in the first place!
As I was outnumbered in a not-so-familiar pub, I backed down (this time!), finished my drink (which they'd waited for me to pay for before rounding on me!), and f***ed off fuming at this 'guilty by say-so' treatment - some old bird was on it pretty much the whole time anyway, she might have jumped on to keep me off it, you know how devious some c***s are...)
Pubs' profit margins can't be that thin, surely, that the odd £25 win for £10 in every 2-3 days can make the difference between the owners' kids getting fed tonight or not - and anyway, someone else will lose on it, that's the nature of the beast...
