30 Wild Stories from Bartenders

‘My boss emptied all the drip trays into a jug at the end of the night and drank it’
30 Wild Stories from Bartenders
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If there’s one profession that it’s completely unsurprising is full of horror stories, it’s bartending. Retail workers and restaurant servers can tell you how bad people can be, and that’s stone-cold sober. Throw hard liquor into the equation, and you’re going to see some things you’d rather not, doubly so when you have to clean up after them.

Over on AskReddit, bartenders were asked for some of their horror stories, and most of them had a couple good examples ready to go. Keep reading to hear about some weapons-grade party fouls, and remember them the next time you decide what the night needs is another round of shots.

Simple_Award4851 a 4mo ago We had an atm installed at a bar/ venue | worked at. Very first night it was in service as we are ushering people out I notice a man standing a little too close to the atm. This man wa so plastered he thought he was at a urinal lol.
kikihippiex . 4mo ago A very pregnant lady ripping a shot of tequila and leaving. Didn't see her pregnant belly until she got up to leave
GlutenFreeNarcotics_ 4mo ago My mom was a bartender back in the 80's around the time when Jägermeister started marketing towards the younger college aged demographics, one night the bar is running specials and the Jäger is flowing and everyone is having a blast. Eventually 4am rolls around, my mom calls last call, and clears out the stragglers. As she's cleaning she notices one gentleman is still in the bar, this man is fast asleep, passed out, snoring, but standing upright, she eventually gets old drunk up and out of the bar, and now I'm kind of foggy on the details
WillHammerhead 4mo ago I worked at a German Brewery near a college (not a bartender but a busser). Naturally, I had to clean puke a lot, and i have a few stories. One guy tried running outside. Не was holding his mouth tight and sprinting, but it really just sprinklered all over the front entrance hallway. Floor, walls, ceiling. The kicker was, it was spaghetti (German place doesn't even serve spaghetti).
GlorioUfficiale a 4mo ago I got jumped by a street gang in a bar back in the 1990s which turned into a brawl between ~25 people intermittently over the course of about two hours. By the end of the night most of the staff had left and quit. The incident was so poorly handled that the city shut down the bar.
ShutUpJane . 4mo ago Bachelor party. One of the entertainers has a disturbing and impressive party trick involving ping pong balls. Stopped booking bachelor parties after that one.
2020_GR78 . 4mo ago I've been out of the business for many, many years.. but back in my day the wildest thing I ever saw was 2 girls straight up 69'ing in the middle of the dance floor. This was in a busy night club on a Friday night. I've seen a lot of shit, but that was the most outrageous that I can recall.
Thyname 4mo ago Fairly infamous guy on the strip. Confessed to me that he had shoved coke up his ass. Не was tweaking out like crazy. Got banned by everyone 2 years later. No idea how he stayed alive all this time.
CakieFickflip 4mo ago Worked at an outdoor bar at the beach. Local crowd, live music most nights, dance floor, it was a fun spot. One night a woman in if I had to guess her mid-thirties was out with coworkers and had been pounding tequila shots. A song comes on and she goes oh I love this song! And got up to dance. While dancing, she had the liquid courage to attempt a backflip for some reason. Landed on her head and started screaming/writhing in agony. Had to call an ambulance and afaik she ended up fine. Part I remember
Unique-Employ-577 . 4mo ago My boss emptied all the drip trays into a jug at the end of the night and drank it.
720hp 4mo ago Fight started between two drunks outside my bar, smaller guy runs back into the joint while I'm collecting empties shouting that he's got a gun and dummy me stands in front of a glass door to lock it and stands there while the dude runs up to the door with gun in hand and I'm looking straight at him. Girl at the bar I was flirting with shouts at me what the hell are you doing? And I thought wait what? And jumped out of the way
i_anglepoise 4mo ago Dive bar in Brighton I managed, group of lads were ordering a shot of Lea and Perrins or Tabasco with every round. They were making their skint mate do the shot before he could have a pint, nothing too crazy. I turfed them out when they produced a pint of piss and placed it on the table for their mate to drink. Far from the worst thing I witnessed but a healthy barometer to judge friends by...
dojijosu 4mo ago Bar trivia host here. Can I play too? Had a guy, about 6'3 blonde military flattop, charge my table because the category for the final round was acronyms and the correct answer to the question was technically an initialism. Не was banging on my table with his fists losing his mind, but one of the bartenders noticed he had a 9mm on his hip. This is where it's important to point out this was a libertarian brewery in New Hampshire. Every bartender, waitress, and busboy in the place... including the owner... was also strapped and drew on
ontour4eternity . 4mo ago Courtney Love and Winona Ryder came in out- of-their-fucking mind (I'm guessing alcohol and pills). Love kept trying to hold my hand and ask if I knew who she was. It was sad and gross.
kingwormlord 4mo ago I had a guy in a wheelchair wheel up behind me when i was sitting at a bar, and he began punching me (weakly) in the back/side of my abdomen, as if he was trying to start a fight with a stranger. I literally turned around and laughed out of shock, and the bartender saw it and wheeled the guy out of the bar and locked him out. Looking back on it, it's kinda sad because he was definitely either drunk or depressed and wanting someone to whoop his ass realllll good. Glad it was me and
illGil4206969 4mo ago Hmm. Debating between the had to clean old man piss off a barstool mid service (multiple times) and the classic makeshift corona bottle shiv.
Maud_Ford 4mo ago I worked at a club/pub in London back in like 2004. This pub was famous for being the birthplace of Drum n Bass music, although that was very much disputed. Every Friday or Saturday night there would be a team of about 10 bouncers, and they were absolutely needed. One night about 20 coked up lads were denied entry and a mass brawl ensued between them and the bouncers. | was working behind the bar. After the brawl was over (the bouncers maintained their unbeaten record of course), one of the bouncers casually sauntered over to the
Prior-Subject6077 . 4mo ago A respected ex-NBA player roofie one of our servers who just got off work. Grabbed that drink from her and poured it down the drain.
4mo ago Haha I'm not a bartender, but the bar I frequent recently showed me video of a customer who apparently whipped out his dongle and showed it to another patron. Said patron then started throwing punches. My bartender tackled the PP flasher guy. PP flasher went home with the PoPos. Since there was no audio to the security footage, I imagine things went something like: Bro, check this out! whips out PP Other bro: WTF WHY YOU SHOW ME YOUR PP?!
thebadhedgehog5 4mo ago Edited 4mo ago Early 2000s cattleman's convention at a resort. 6'6 easily 300lb cowboy drinking for several hours. Knocked over a table and a waitress. Staggered up to the bar wanting more pitchers of beer. Cut him off, attempted to give him anything else - soda, juice, coffee. Cowboy becomes irate, his buddies egging him on. Explain to him that I could lose my liquor license and the bar's as well. Grabs me by the throat and pulls me over the bar. Yelling I don't need some punk telling me how much I can or can't drink! While doing
Phantompooper03 4mo ago Bouncer here, not bartender, but I worked at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. We had two clubs and a pretty extensive security team, including a weekends-only team for the bars. We had a holding cell and a few of us were EMTs. We also had a wheelchair covered in a trash bag. Why did we have a wheelchair covered with a trash bag? Well for the Shukers of course. You see, when young ladies enter the mating ritual, they will usually go to the club in their finest skintight dress and high heels, skipping meals
Mammoth_Geologist917 . 4mo ago Old man fights! Torn between the 75 year old VS the 60 year old with half a foot or the same 75 year old choking out an 80 year old cartoon style.
Leather-Animal-8342 4mo ago My mom was a bartender she's told me a few of stories from it. 1: she went to break up a fight between 2 biker groups and she ended up getting flipped/throw and her leg got caught in a ceiling fan..broke her leg but stopped the fight. 2: she got her own drink laced with Isd one night while working by someone she knew. 3: before Queen got super famous they played a show at her bar and afterwards came up and asked her if they could throw an after party and it was just Queen, like
DeedeeScosco 4mo ago It's been a few years since I bartended, but we had to kick a guy out once and he came back like half an hour later and punched through the WIRE REINFORCED GLASS in the front door. Tore his hand and wrist to shit, he wound up waiting on the curb for both police and ambulance to arrive. 24H emergency glass repair company had the window replaced by the time we closed.
Repulsive-Dog3371 4mo ago Edited 4mo ago I don't necessarily think it was outrageous, but one time I waited on a couple and the man was a little person and the woman was average height. I asked what they wanted to drink and the man said something like crown and coke, tall and the woman said a short cranberry vodka. I guess it was the first time they had gone out because they just looked at each other and burst out laughing over their obvious size preference. And it made me chuckle too.
damarius 4mo ago I worked as a doorman at a bar at University while attending there. Our football team was hosting an arch-rival one weekend, and a few of the opponent players were in the bar wearing team jerseys. One of the waitresses came up to me and said that big guy in the XXX jersey is eating glasses. I figured I must have misheard, but she repeated He's eating beer glasses.
JuicySpark ... 4mo ago Found out that All the liquor was bootlegged and just dumped into bottles with brand names. Nobody restocked except for the boss.
popcornpoops . 4mo ago We had a guy who was a puker. One night at last call he pounded a beer so he could get one more. But immediately after pounding it, he puked it back up into the pint glass. Being wasted, he wanted another one and re- pounded his puke/beer.
cowgoesrowr 4mo ago I was managing an upscale Italian restaurant in a fancy SF neighborhood during COVID. I walk outside to our patio and notice a patron reaching over the divide, trying to hand something to the couple sitting in the next booth. I speed walk over and notice that this man's pants are down at his knees (??) and the man in the next booth is yelling that he's trying to hand them drugs (??). So I find myself telling this pantsless man, let's put on our pants and keep our drugs to ourselves, which was a sentence I
247mumbles 4mo ago For context I'm missing the majority of my fingers due to a congenital defect, and it was my first month working as a bartender when I had this convo with a very drunk lady me at the bar pouring drinks Lady: hey I have a question I can't stop thinking about Me: sure go ahead Lady: are you a lesbian? Me: nope Lady: thank god because you don't have fingers

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