‘You still have the nerve?’: Texas man grills bartender with ‘a thousand million questions,’ then leaves her with a promise and $0 tip
Bartenders have to have the best anger management
Every bartender has encountered the guy who thinks he’s the main attraction of a slow Tuesday night. He drops the names of the owners, brags about his “status,” and expects the bartender to treat him like a C-list celebrity.
But one Texas man just set a new record for the most delusional behavior in hospitality history. TikTok creator and bartender Lexus (@lexusjustlikethecar) recently went viral with a storytime that has racked up over 10,000 views.
It’s a the most despised moment for every service worker who has to bite their tongue while a customer treats them like a therapist, a matchmaker, and a personal assistant. All for the grand total of zero dollars.
The customer began with the ‘Status’ Trap
According to Lexus’ TikTok, the night started with two men sitting at her bar and immediately trying to establish their dominance. They spent the evening “name-dropping” the owners and managers. Presumably, they wanted to ensure they got the exclusive club treatment. They acted like they own the place when they’re really just a guy in a chair.
As the shift progressed, the men decided that Lexus’s time belonged entirely to them. They bombarded her with “one thousand million questions” while she was trying to do her actual job. But that wasn’t even the most annoying part.
As Lexus revealed, one of the men kept pestering her to “hook him up” with her single friends. Because apparently, bartenders aren’t just there to pour drinks. They’re also unpaid recruiters for your struggling dating life.
The $0 tip was what led Lexus to create this story-time
The real twist of the night came when it was time to close the mens’ tab. After monopolizing the bartender’s energy for hours, the man looked her in the eye and dropped the line:
“I’m not gonna be able to tip you right now, but I’m gonna come back and tip you.”
Quite frankly, if you have enough money to sit at a bar and drink for hours, you have enough money to tip the person serving you. But Lexus recalled that the man stalled on his phone for several minutes before handing it over to pay.
The wannabe “cool dude” couldn’t even do the bare minimum for the person who spent the night entertaining him. In an industry where bartenders can make as little as $2.13 an hour, a “promise” to come back later doesn’t pay the bills. But wait. It gets worse.
After bugging the bartender all night, he decided to drop a nerve-wracking final comment, too
After stiffing her on a tip, the man had the absolute nerve to double down on his request. As he was leaving, he told her, “Don’t forget if you have any friends to hook me up with.”
“What do I look like, hooking a friend up with someone who can’t even tip a dollar?” Lexus asked in her video. And that perfectly captures the internal scream of every service worker in America. The audacity required to stiff a woman and then ask her for a personal favor on the way out? That’s a character so flawed, it’s almost impressive.
The internet said what the bartender couldn’t
Predictably, the internet was not here for the “broke little phalanges” energy. The comments section was a unified front of people calling out the entitled behavior of the man. “I think that’s a generational thing. My generation, that doesn’t even make sense.” one viewer remarked.
And really, imagine having the confidence to ask for a date after admitting you’re too broke to tip. The level of self-importance is lethal.
Bartenders are people, not props
This viral moment highlights a growing crisis in customer service. The idea that workers are props in the customer’s personal movie is irritating and damaging. People think the bar experience involves exploiting someone’s emotional labor and then stiffing them. But these “name-droppers” need to learn that respect is the real currency of a local bar. And for anyone in Texas, you might want to keep your single friends as far away from this guy as possible.
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