Bartending at a nightclub on the weekends, every shift without fail I get ear fed with close to 100 pick up lines. All lame, some more inappropriate than others.
A few recent examples are

• “ You look like a porn star, I love porn stars” (I was wearing a long sleeve top and jeans with my Js and he wasn’t talking about Porn Star shooters)
• “You a bad girl? You look like a bad girl with all those tattoos” ( 1 of 50 other tattoo related pickups)
• “Is that real?!!!” (In reference to my behind and usually my breasts as well)
• “I’ll get a glass of water, and your number”
• Me “ what can I get for you” Him “ what would I call a taste of you”
• “What are you doing after work?”-“Sleeping”-“Sleeping with me?”

These are only a few of many, I deal with plenty of drunk dumb dumbs all night and it really doesn’t phase me, sometimes it makes me laugh. Most of the time I just pretend I don’t hear it and wonder how your mothers would react to hearing you say some of the things you say to women you know nothing about.

This year marks my 8^th year of bartending and final year of bartending. Without fail recently, every shift I hear this one line, which actually makes me really frustrated; to the point that I will actually say something if the dude won’t let go of the topic.

They always start off with telling me how nice I am (thank you, I take pride in being a kind person) then they always continue with, “ Why are you a bartender, you are too pretty to be working at a bar”

SERIOUSLY?

Pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to work at a nightclub as a bartender if I wasn’t a personable and good-looking human being.

Here are my points in response to any of you guys who think that saying this to a female bartender is a good pickup line or compliment

• I do this job for extra cash, I in fact do have a “REAL” job (I put quotations here because those of you who do not think that bartending is a real job, please give your head a shake. It’s extremely exhausting to be a good bartender, you have to be personable, extremely fast and deal with so much shit from sexual harassment to nearly getting vomited on, to being threatened, it’s not even funny)
• You DO NOT KNOW ME, I could be the dumbest bitch on the block and that’s why I work at a bar
• I am a bartender because I chose to be, my life, my choice, why are you questioning my decisions, again, YOU DO NOT KNOW ME
• To work in the nightlife industry you have to be remotely good-looking
• Are you saying that because someone is good-looking they deserve a “better” job? I’m confused by the statement because that’s not very fair for people who worked hard, going to school for 15 years plus to be a doctor and maybe they aren’t pretty in your books but I don’t deserve the job to perform your surgery just because you like my ass.

Next time you feel like complimenting your bartender, try something genuine, like:

• You have fantastic style
• I like your (appropriate feature like eyes etc)
• Get to know her (if she’s not to busy), find a mutual interest and go on that

It’s really easy to be a gentleman and it’ll get you a lot more pussy than being a complete fucktard.

Give it a try sometime.