Strangest thing that has ever happened to you in a pub

[foxy]

You probably won't believe this but it was honestly true and anybody who lived in the Eccleshall Road region of Sheffield may have heard of this chap.

Back in 2007 I was in the Pomona pub on Eccleshall Road, playing pool on my Birthday with a few mates from uni. Anyway the Landlord came over and put £100 cash on the pool table and said "My barman is very good a pool and has won a few comps, if you beat him that £100 is yours". So I asked "and err what if I get beat?" to which he replied "nothing". So thought right lets play.

Gave the barman a good game of pool and we both ended up on black. Anyway he beat me and the landlord came over and said "good game, tell you what you take the cash". At first I refused but he insisted. I then made sure I spent the amount in his pub, buying as many rounds as possible.

I told this to a few other mates and learnt he usually hands out wads of cash to people celebrating various occasions. A year or so he left the pub. Not sure what happened to the chap.

 

[davymcfc]

Was sat in The Bridge in Sale one Friday evening when some clever bastard decided to throw a CS gas bomb in the pub. Everyone was coughing and choking and then a huge brawl ensued. Someone smashed a bottle and held it towards my face, people were trying to get over the bar towards the till. It took 12 police vans to arrive full of cops to get it all calmed down and the pub was shut early at about 8pm. Still to this day I have no idea why this happened.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Not me, but a friend of mine was an area manager for Courage Brewery in the 1980's in and around Newbury.

He told me a story of when he turned up at one of his pubs to check the cash (as they did in those days). He went upstairs to where the safe was and whilst he was counting the tenners he felt some breathing over his shoulder and when he turned around he saw a horse stood in the kitchen next to him.

He called the manager in who said "the gypsies brought it in last night and left without it. It was frightened so I let it stay the night".

It is difficult to imagine what to say in response to that.

hahahaha, thats made my day.

I particularly like the image of the manager walking the horse up the stairs at the end of the night presumably so it didn't run amok in the public bar.

 

[Subbed Tskhadadze with Allsopp]

Sat in a country pub on a quiet Sunday night at a table next to the door that led down to the gents/ladies. Nothing else down there. People go in, people come out as you'd expect, nothing out of the ordinary.

After having sat there for about an hour, the door opens and two nuns walk out. Two real, honest-to-goodness nuns, had to have been in their seventies.

To this day, I have no idea what they would have been doing in the toilets of a country pub in the middle of nowhere for an hour. And frankly, I don't want to know.

 

[Swales lives]

I was thrown out of a pub in Leigh once, when I was about 20, for wrestling with an old bloke.
I was having a pint on my own, waiting for a mate. This was on a Saturday afternoon in Winter, there was a nice coal fire burning away and a couple of molten coals jumped out of the fire and landed on the hearth. This old get, went to pick the coals up with his bare hands. I jumped up to stop the mad old sod, grabbed his arm before he melted his hands and he swung round at me telling me to "fuck off". The landlord came in, grabbed me and fucked me off out into the street, my mate was on his way in, wondering "what the feck....?"

 

[davymcfc]

Sat in a country pub on a quiet Sunday night at a table next to the door that led down to the gents/ladies. Nothing else down there. People go in, people come out as you'd expect, nothing out of the ordinary.

After having sat there for about an hour, the door opens and two nuns walk out. Two real, honest-to-goodness nuns, had to have been in their seventies.

To this day, I have no idea what they would have been doing in the toilets of a country pub in the middle of nowhere for an hour. And frankly, I don't want to know.

I like this story a lot.

 

[Uwe Rosler]

You probably won't believe this but it was honestly true and anybody who lived in the Eccleshall Road region of Sheffield may have heard of this chap.

Back in 2007 I was in the Pomona pub on Eccleshall Road, playing pool on my Birthday with a few mates from uni. Anyway the Landlord came over and put £100 cash on the pool table and said "My barman is very good a pool and has won a few comps, if you beat him that £100 is yours". So I asked "and err what if I get beat?" to which he replied "nothing". So thought right lets play.

Gave the barman a good game of pool and we both ended up on black. Anyway he beat me and the landlord came over and said "good game, tell you what you take the cash". At first I refused but he insisted. I then made sure I spent the amount in his pub, buying as many rounds as possible.

I told this to a few other mates and learnt he usually hands out wads of cash to people celebrating various occasions. A year or so he left the pub. Not sure what happened to the chap.

I remember the fella, i lived in The Royal at the bottom of London road from 2006-2008 and i used to drink in The Pomona all the time.

 

[Swales lives]

That's a beautiful tale there Corky. We can all learn something from that.

 

[Skip Donoghue]

Was in the Grey Horse in Reddish one Sunday afternoon and in walked a sheep, bearing in mind there isn't a field with any sheep in it for miles, pissed ourselves as the landlord chased it round the pub as it shit every where, still to this day don't know how it got there or where it came from

 

[kp789]

Was in the Grey Horse in Reddish one Sunday afternoon and in walked a sheep, bearing in mind there isn't a field with any sheep in it for miles, pissed ourselves as the landlord chased it round the pub as it shit every where, still to this day don't know how it got there or where it came from

How did a sheep just walk in? Bahahaha, thats piss funny, ive just got images of the sheep and landlord running round in circles with the benny hill music.