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Getting Lost In Pubs.

In the olden days most pubs were not one single large room, but were rabbit warrens that were made up of lots of smaller rooms, as many pubs were buildings that had been converted from other uses. This was especially true of many town centre pubs that had once been made from two or more terraced houses. Often the rooms had glass-panelled doors dividing them with the room names etched into the glass. They included such names as the smoke, bar, snug, lounge, etc. Nowadays nearly all pubs have been modernised and the rooms knocked through, with many of the less functional pubs even knocked down (link to article.) In one local town that I have played in for many years we had two such “Rabbit Warren,” type of pubs. The Plough wasn’t really so bad as it was simply a ring of rooms round the bar and has been pulled down now anyway to make space for new houses, but the Vine is still a popular pub. The Vine is definitely a bit of a warren and much like “Doctor Who’s Tardis,” as it seems to go on forever inside and yet looks tiny from the road front. Many players end up taking wrong turns too and from the different rooms and briefly get lost on their first few visits to the pub for a darts match. I know I often used to get lost in the pub and ask other people, who were wondering the corridors, which was the way back to the bar after going to the toilets – that was after I had managed to find them in the first place!

In the course of a match players often wander away from the darts area and are temporarily “lost,” in the pub. In the first Rugeley match that I ever reported on a player had been “lost” in one of the towns pubs. He had actually been in the pub for some time, but no one knew he was there as he was in another part of the pub and had been doing some odd jobs for the landlord since his arrival. He nearly didn't play in the match at all. (Link)

Large signs in most big, modern pubs prevent people from really getting lost and having difficulty in navigating their way round them, but they can still sometimes cause problems for people as they are just so big. It is wholly possible to arrange to meet someone at a certain time in a pub and then have difficulty in spotting them when they arrive. This happened the other day to 2 women in a modern pub/restaurant in a nearby town where I had gone for lunch. Both women had arrived at about noon, but in different parts of the pub. The “Blonde,” who was sitting over an empty coffee cup near to me, kept getting up and going outside to look for her missing friend. Every so often she got out her mobile phone so that she could phone her missing friend to find out where she had got to only to get her automatic answering service. She eventually got fed up waiting and was just about to go when she saw her friend came from the other end of the pub and approach the exit near to her so that she could leave the pub. They saw each other and then had a fit of giggles both telling the other that they had been waiting nearly ¾ of an hour for the other. I don’t really understand it because admittedly one was blonde, but the second lady was dark haired. Of course, she might have dyed her hair black!

 

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