Bloody Clock Change

bednobs | 09:08 Sat 25th Oct 2014 | ChatterBank

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if one more person tells me cheerfully that they are getting an extra hour in bed, i'm going to punch them!

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Postdog

In our house, you lose that hour altering all the clocks.

EDDIE51

^^ Those were the days. I worked in a pub then. There was such a rush at midday that we used to start pouring pints a before time and lining them up on the bar. Then when we opened the doors and the 'stampede' started the regulars could just grab a pint and put the cash down on the bar. We never lost out and it meant they could down an extra pint in the 2 hour time slot.

chrissa1

I look upon it as an extra hour to read, in bed tonight.

ummmm

Eddie....you waited until opening time? Our pub was packed before we opened.

chrissa1

That comma was in the wrong place.

EDDIE51

We did not open the doors till the stroke of 12 then you would be nearly knocked off your feet by the rush. Letting them in before 12 would have been a disaster they would have been climbing over the bar to get a drink!

BlackadderV

Never mind the pints. When the cheese and pickles came out everyone seemed to have developed mechanical grabbers. The plates were emptied within 5 minutes.

ummmm

Lol....On Sundays we'd start letting in the regulars from about 10:30. This was back in the day when most of the blokes were working 6 days a week. I remember opening the doors at 12 and watching all the cigarette smoke being sucked outside. I miss those days...

Psybbo

Sounds like an Irish pub, ummmm

ummmm

It was :-)

B00

Sibs,sorry to push in Bednobs, pic of ESoS on A&N as promised :-)

ummmm

Still kinda is. My uncle has it now.

annieigma

I was told it is unlucky to turn the clock back, so have to go forward 11 hours,superstition, same as not cutting your nails on a sunday, from my scottish side of the family.

EDDIE51

The police round our way back then would have taken a dim view of a pub with customers inside before midday. They actually used to check back then.

BlackadderV

But you didn't open the curtains till 12.

ummmm

They never checked on us....luckily.