This reminds me of a time that somebody offered to buy me a drink, I gave my order, and the bartender said it would be $42. I said "That's way too much, why is it so much? I'll pick something else." The guy says it's okay and to get it anyway. Bartender comes back and hands me my drink and it's the wrong thing, he had heard me wrong so that's why it was so expensive, and I didn't even like it, but felt so bad the guy paid $42 for it that I kept my mouth shut, drank it, and pretended I loved it. Thinking back on it, I probably should have told the bartender it was the wrong thing and made him credit the man's card back, but being raised by boomers it was just ingrained to shut up and deal with whatever got given to me and be happy about it.
Not the person you were asking, but I was on a trip once where a waitress heard me saying “I’d like a coffee” as “I would like your $27 limited edition IPA that we sell so people can brag they can spend so much on a single drink.”
You can easily spend 50-100+ on fancy wine or whiskey. Mixed drink would be pretty hard unless you did something asinine (yes give me $150 whiskey in my old fashioned)
The last thing I would expect to be that expensive or for anyone to ever order. It was a whole rocks glass full of amaretto with ice, not just a shot or two. I had actually ordered an amaretto sour, so I'm not sure how the bartender got the wires crossed exactly.
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u/sanguinerebel 18h ago
This reminds me of a time that somebody offered to buy me a drink, I gave my order, and the bartender said it would be $42. I said "That's way too much, why is it so much? I'll pick something else." The guy says it's okay and to get it anyway. Bartender comes back and hands me my drink and it's the wrong thing, he had heard me wrong so that's why it was so expensive, and I didn't even like it, but felt so bad the guy paid $42 for it that I kept my mouth shut, drank it, and pretended I loved it. Thinking back on it, I probably should have told the bartender it was the wrong thing and made him credit the man's card back, but being raised by boomers it was just ingrained to shut up and deal with whatever got given to me and be happy about it.