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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Sorry to seem picky, but a few questions about your last paragraph:-
a) how do you know they were "lower class"?
b) how do you know they were "out of work"?
c) how do you know they were "between trips to the betting shop"?
Remember, you were in there at the same time, so they may have thought the same things about you...... 
And if you weren't, how do you know they were? |
Living in a fairly small town and frequenting a fairly small pub as my regular the answer to a) and b) are very easy because everyone is known and new faces are not as common as city pubs. The pub is 95% frequented by regulars in the day, any people coming in for a business lunch such as workers from the near by council offices tend to use the restaurant upstairs which has always been smoke free. (The shirt and tie as opposed to the dirty jeans and lonsdale sports gear usually gives them away)
Downstairs in the daytime used to consist of a very smokey atmosphere with the TV on the racing channel, racing paper on the bar, the pile of betting slips behind the counter and the landlord collecting money and slips, running back and fore the betting office (directly opposite) was a dead giveaway.
The out of work candidates can be spotted a mile off, many of them are are the ones who are unable to stand up at 8pm on a friday night or leaving on a Wednesday night in a similar condition when I get there at 9pm. Remember I live in a fairly small town unlike large cities where people can blend in easier customers are uaually well known.