[lit-ideas] Re: Yost's offer

Are you kidding?  An open bar is the only time to buy someone a drink.  Buy 'em 
a whole bunch of drinks.  It really impresses people, let me tell ya.
   
  

David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  
On Mar 29, 2008, at 7:49 AM, Eric Yost wrote:
>
> By contrast, I was invited to a friend's birthday party, which was 
> hosted by an exceptionally wealthy friend of my friend. He rented 
> out Le Cirque on 58th for the evening and it was open bar and 
> restaurant. Overwhelmed by opulence, I tried to buy the host a 
> drink, and he very politely declined, but agreed to a raincheck.
>

Never having been in such a situation, I'm wondering how you "buy 
[someone] a drink" at an open bar. What do you say to the bar 
person, "Take this round off the tab"?

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon 
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