Unfortunatly the town where I was born and bred (Warrington) has been in the news this week, for all the wrong reasons!

The Showbar in Warrington has been selling drinks for just 10p in a promotion they call "2 bob Tuesdays!" and young revellers are flocking from far and wide to take advantage to get "smashed" very cheaply....at best this is a very irrisponsibe promotion, but at worse this is down right bloody dangerous!!!!!!
When I was in my early 20's (before I moved to Northampton and became a manager for Scottish and Newcastle) I worked at the Postern Gate pub, as I have mentioned before on this blog. I worked an average 40 hour week, and I worked damn hard. As a result I would chill out several times a week at Mr Smiths club and loved every moment of it....However, there is a dark side to Warringtons nightlife, and I must say a very ugly one it is, and one that I thank God on my bended knees that I have not partaken in, in years!
Its all to do with the geography of Warrington (although *myself included* Warrington seems to breed nutters!!!LOL...Appologies to fellow Warringtonions who are not nutters!!) and the fact that its slap bang inbetween Liverpool and Manchester. So come the weekend most of the northwest appear to converge on Warrington, get pissed, and have a veritable tribe war!!! Fights, brawles, slanging matches, glassings and gang culture! All very commen in the Warrington I left behind in 1993! Sometimes I breath a deep sigh of relife for this, but I still have memories of these events taking place under my very nose, and they are not nice to recall!!
Now some utter gonk somewhere thinks it would be a fun idea to sell drinks for just 10p!!!!!
My first thought is the manager must either have an IQ of an amoeba or have a masters degree from fairy-land!!!
In my day as a trainee manager I had licensing law written in stone and engraved on my very crainium...but when I read someting like this I somtimes think the licensing law must have had a clause written into it, so managers can and do have the right to act with childish iresponsibillity!!!...maybe I live on another planet........
This breaks the law on several levels and I am mightly surprized that nothing appears to have been done!!!
And the main one is serving a person or person who appear to be intoxicated!!! YES!! its is ILEGAL TO SERVE ANYONE WHO IS DRUNK!!!
Photos fom the news show drunk bodies piled up covered in sick...so how the heck are they getting away with this??? and how on earth (or what ever planet these folks live on) can they be having a good time!!!??? Is the defination of having a good time include collapsing in a pool of ones own vomit, in the gutter??? If this is so, I hope to never ever have a "good time" again!!
My opionion??
Haul the pratt who is responsible for the Show Bar, before the courts so him/her can explain their actions and be given a very hefty fine. And have the liscence revoked for the club!
And for those of you who think I am pulling a mother Theresa act! I too have been drunk (sometimes very drunk) in my youth! I have also been thrown out of pubs for being drunk in my 20's and I have even ended up in A&E, drunk!!!! and you know what??? I hated every moment of it!!!! Being drunk has taught me a valuble lesson.
"DONT GET DRUNK!"
So these days I dont.
I still drink, and a love my chilled wine in my hot tub of an evening...but I have seen others, and personally been though hell because of drink. So I have learned to respect it too. This dosen't mean I am a party pooping stick in the mud!!! That I am most certainly not, as my close friends who know me personally will know! But the most valuable lesson I have learned as far as drink is concerned, is this:
"Excess WITHIN control!!!"
Its my wish that others would learn this lesson too................