On Aug 11, 10:29 am, Dan Abel > wrote:
> In article >,
>
> Goomba38 > wrote:
> > Has anyone here provided the booze for their functions and how did you
> > determine what to buy?? How much??
>
> My suggestion would be to ask the caterer. She would probably know
> better than anybody here. Preferences vary according to location.
>
> Hopefully things will go better for you. My wife and I worked for the
> US Army many years ago. My office had several parties. Some were at
> the local (military) yacht club, a few hundred feet from where I worked.
> My wife worked at the same (satellite) base. The person who organized
> the parties found that we could provide the booze, but had to pay the
> yacht club to pour it. I don't know if the bartenders wanted to get out
> early, or what, but they poured very heavily. I talked to a woman there
> who made three trips to the bar. She wanted a bourbon and mixer. The
> bartender almost filled the large glass (8 oz?) with bourbon, and then a
> splash of mixer. She couldn't drink it. She made a second trip,
> requesting a weak drink. She got the same thing. On the third trip,
> she requested just the mixer, no booze. She got it, and could drink it.
> That was probably 12 oz of bourbon just abandoned and wasted. I watched
> the bartenders, and that was what they did for every drink.

People are bad enough about wasting stuff that they themselves
ultimately pay for. When it's someone else's tab, it can get
disgusting.

> Out of the probably 100 people who were there, maybe two could
> walk home. The others had to drive. That was pretty irresponsible.

I was a good boy on Friday night. I knew I'd be getting good'n drunk,
so I took the bus there, and a cab back from the party I attended.

--Bryan