Still On The Bottle Analysis

Still on the Bottle I have been working in a pub four years, ever since I turned fifteen. I have watched many people come in and out of the pub. While not thinking about the alcohol people were consuming, I always did my job and gave the customers what they wanted. I have learned many things from my work but the biggest thing I have learned was that people who drink tend to behave in a ridiculous ways and also there seems to be more alcohol consumed every year. When I started at Double E back in 2013, I was happy and scared that I finally had a job. My biggest fear was that my boss wouldn 't like the way I worked and end up letting me go, but instead I was promoted one year later to be a waitress. Where I was the front of the business and seen all the …show more content…
I was never fully prepared for what I was going to encounter. I have seen and dealt with it all, from stumbling and wrecking things, all the way to people getting into fights over idiotic reasons. It seemed that drinking and partying were the only things these guys did. I have learned many new languages, most of them not spoken by sober men, but the best language a drunk knows is when you yell “LAST CALL”, which means they have to by one more drink before going to the next bar. After putting their “beer goggles” on and we close the door, they stumble to their vehicles, to find the next bar still open. I started to look down on the people who drank just to get drink. For many months straight, I believed that I was better than them until a older gentleman came into the pub to get a drink and ended up sparking a conversation. We talked mostly about how he drank to forget all of the bad that has happened in his life. I then started thinking about how I was stereotyping the customers and I didn’t know what any of them have gone through in