This twenty-nine-year-old man owns and operates a bar in a mid-sized town. He does have a few employees, but most nights, he just mans the bar himself.
Anyway, he noticed that a new girl named Katie started frequenting his bar about three months ago. She became sort of a regular customer there, and it appeared that one of Katie’s friends had known another bartender.
So, they all got to know each other casually. And then, while swiping on a dating app not long afterward, he happened to match with Katie.
“We started talking for over a month, and I kind of liked her, so I ended up asking her on a date this past weekend,” he explained.
He actually planned the whole thing out a week in advance, and throughout the days leading up to the date, phone conversations were flowing, and everything was totally normal. But then, “date day” came around, and Katie was totally missing in action.
In fact, she completely ghosted him. Katie did not respond to any of his messages leading up to the date. But, he still held onto hope that she would show up at their agreed-upon restaurant and went anyway.
“I waited ten minutes and then left. I was really embarrassed, but it happens. And I did not think I would see her again,” he said.
Well, lo and behold, guess who walked into his bar just last night? Katie. And she did not even try to hide her face, either.
Instead, Katie sat right at the bar with two of her friends. Plus, since he was the only bartender on duty last night, he was forced to face her.
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At first, he considered just kicking her out of the place. But, his bouncer was not on duty, and there were a ton of customers waiting on drinks.
Plus, he did not want to make a huge scene.
So instead, he opted to just walk up to Katie and her friends and ask her to leave. But apparently, Katie just kept asking him to talk, and he kept saying no and telling her to get out.
“Then her friends started asking why, and I told them that I am the bar owner and that I don’t need a reason,” he recalled.
Well, Katie still did not get the point and kept on asking to speak to him outside. So finally, he made a sarcastic remark about how he would shut down the entire bar and stop working just to talk to her.
Then, he actually called her a jerk and told her to leave one final time.
And by that point, her friends started to get pretty standoffish, and a bunch of his customers noticed what was going on. So, in an effort to wrap up the situation, he just asked Katie what she wanted to drink.
Katie then ordered a Bud Light, to which he responded, “That will be thirty dollars.”
Of course, Katie thought that was a ridiculous price and did not hesitate to call him out on it. But, he just told her to find another bar if she was unhappy with the price. He also let Katie’s friends know that he would be charging them the same.
In turn, Katie and her friends ultimately ended up leaving. However, they made sure to call him a jerk on the way out of the bar.
And since a few of his regular customers saw what happened, he has begun getting asked about the whole ordeal.
At first, he tried to play it off in order to avoid discussing the topic. But, a few other customers were actually there, saw what happened, and sided with Katie and called him a jerk, too.
So now, he is not sure if being kind of hostile to Katie and forcing her to leave was the wrong way to handle the situation or if he had a right to kick her out.
Why do you think Katie wanted to talk to him? Do you believe that he had a right to kick Katie out, or was he too harsh? If you were in his shoes, what would you have done?
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