We went to Dave & Buster's on Saturday night with the intention of having a few beers, playing a little Skee-Ball, and possibly allowing Chris to avenge his previous bitter defeat at that one racing game.
We ordered some appetizers and a round of pints at the bar; as we were finishing them, a different bartender came around, pointed at our empty pint glasses (fig. 1), and asked us if we wanted more. "Yes," we said, "please bring us two more pints of Bass."
Based on the above exchange, one would think that our request was pretty clear. What she brought us were two 20-ounce cider glasses (fig. 2) of Bass. Now, I didn't think much of it, as the switchification of glass types like this is pretty common in other civilized countries. But when we got the bill, they had charged us a dollar more for the bigger pints.
After protesting that we hadn't asked for the extra 4 ounces, he did the right thing: apologized for the misunderstanding and told us to enjoy our evening.
Ha ha! Of course he didn't! He's a cog in the capitalistic machine. What he did do is take away our beers and pour them into pint glasses. Seriously. We watched him. He took away our 20 ounce beers and poured them into 16 ounce glasses. I don't even have a snarky comment for how stupid this was.
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