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Sneaking away from the pub

  • 18-12-2014 5:04pm
    #1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 38


    I was on our work Christmas pub crawl last week, one lad sneaked off after about 2 or 3 pubs without saying a word. Do you know people who do this or do you do this yourself?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭Garzorico


    Sneak no - leave without telling anyone - all the time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I've done it before, usually because the crowd insist I stay. See, I'm great craic, so I am.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,883 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    I do it all the time when I'm drunk, just go into auto-pilot mode and head out for a chippy normally.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    I do it all the time. The girls call me Houdini.

    I’d never leave if I was out with just one of the girls but when there’s a gang of us out and I have that one drink too many I pretend I’m off to the toilet and jump in a cab.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,507 ✭✭✭bennyineire


    Ah you mean the Irish goodbye :pac:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Have done it once or twice in a previous job years ago because I wanted to meet friends later and the people I worked with used to operate the crawls like an Auschwitz convoy so you had to break out along the way and make a run for it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Leeleather wrote: »
    I was on our work Christmas pub crawl last week, one lad sneaked off after about 2 or 3 pubs without saying a word.

    He hates you all probably.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Galadriel


    irish_goat wrote: »
    I do it all the time when I'm drunk, just go into auto-pilot mode and head out for a chippy normally.

    Yep, when I'm done I'm done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    he probably has a life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    Yeah, plenty of times. After a certain amount of drink it can become difficult to leave without having to explain yourself. Best just to grab your coat and head for the exit.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Once I hit a certain level of drunkenness, my inner homing pigeon kicks in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    They're just doing what everyone there wants to do but won't go through with it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    The Irish goodbye.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭TheOtherBloke


    Yep. Thats when you just have enough and walk off. There's no time to say your goodbyes when theres food and bed on your drunken mind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,771 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Yes, quite often. Fact is I'm a lightweight and get both drunk and tired quicker than most. I'd rather go home safely when I am able to than pass out and have to be carried home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Always go off wandering on my own, I'm one of those that always ends up babysitting some drunken wastard, so I fcuk away off somewhere before things get to that stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    All the time. Frankly as an adult I decide when I want to go and besides I'm not answerable to my friends so...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    Why wouldn't you say goodbye? I know if someone sneaked off, and especially if they had a fair few drinks I'd be worried about them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    Why wouldn't you say goodbye? I know if someone sneaked off, and especially if they had a fair few drinks I'd be worried about them.

    You'd soon give up worrying about me.
    Because if you say goodbye you won't be let go, and your cards will be marked for another hour or so.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 317 ✭✭roro1990


    I've an awful habit of doing this. I'm actually shocked there's so many others like me. I just leave without saying a word, get greasy food, stick the earphones in and jump on a nitelink.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    We've a mate who's really good at this. We don't even lose him between pubs or on the way somewhere, he's just there one minute and gone the next, and nobody notices him leaving.

    I'll occasionally do this, but only if it's too much damn hassle to go find everyone to say goodbye - e.g. you're in a busy club or something. Finish the pint, grab me coat have a quick scan to see if I can see anyone, and if not, just go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    - "Yeah, so I think I'm gonna take off. Nice catching up though."

    + "Ah you can't, we're only getting started sure."

    - "Ah yeah I know, but I'm a bit tired tbh and I have other plans anyway sure."

    + "But it's Chrriiiisssmaassss. Go on stay!!!"

    - "Nah, really, I'd good craic, but I'm gonna head on."

    - "Ahh ladsss. Strobe says he's going!"

    "What, nah stay a bit longer! We're just getting started sure."

    + "No seriously, I'm gonna take off. But have an awesome night."

    - "Ah you're no fun".

    + "heh... anyway, yeah, I'm off. So see ye all in the new year."

    - "But it's Chriiiissstmaasss, you hasshh to shhhtayyy!!"

    + "Say it's Christmass ONE more time mother****er!!! I dare ye!!!"

    - "I think Strobe is leaving lads..."



    Or you can just sneak away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    I thought I was bit odd for having done this on occasion. Didn't know there was a cultural phenomenon with it's own term!

    Basically, my head gets wobbly and I'm usually at the stage of talking to myself so I say 'let's go' and do my drunken power walking until food appears in my hands and then cut to kicking off shoes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,263 ✭✭✭Gongoozler


    I don't completely avoid saying goodbye, but I do hate it, this thread has made me realise that. I'm already dreading and planning my way out of saying goodbye when I finish up work for Christmas. Ugh, all the well wishing, etc etc. It's just uncomfortable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,929 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    There's an ould lad in my local who always orders another Guinness and takes a mouthful from it before heading home. Always thought it a bit strange.

    Although if I knew the one that was one too many, I'd REMEMBER how and when I got home far more often :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 634 ✭✭✭ceekay74


    On friends, never done it.

    On work mates, all the time. **** them! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I'm known for my "Irish goodbyes" :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I do it all the time, but don't want my mates worrying so send a text from the Lucas saying something like "Arragh lads, which fcker put me on the Lucas, I was dying for another pint and a cheeky chaser".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Completely fair game unless you are out with one other person or maybe 2 other people who don't get on or know each other that well.

    I almost always took off like a thief in the night when the hunger came calling or I got bored. Never from the pub, generally only from clubs.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 142 ✭✭Dexter Bip


    Normally do this when outpaced by others including my wife. We live opposite a pub though . ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭mikehunts


    Often have pulled a Lord Lucan and legged it, Hassle freee I even pulled one tonight, was well loaded earlier and have a hangover booting the head off me this min.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    leave, send text.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    most light drinkers will sneak away


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Leave the laggards behind


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,037 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    I've done it a load of times. Purely for Strobes reasoning above, you'll be hassled to stay on and it takes ages to go otherwise. That or you're trying to avoid someone....

    Normally just say I lost em talking to someone the following day...


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 489 ✭✭Sclosages


    Yup - I slope...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,214 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Whats the big deal

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭tomaussie


    We had a mate that used to do this all the time. Was an expert. Would even buy a pint, with no intention of drinking it, as subterfuge and nip away when nobody was paying attention. We called him Richard Kimble and it's now known as 'doing a Kimble'.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Yeah I did it the other night. The Mrs was feckin fumin when she got home.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,780 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    A girl i was seeing once came down to my neck of the woods for the first time, I just disappeared....yup was so drunk forgot bout her and left the pub we were in ha ha


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,661 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Ah the ol' 'f*** this, I'm off'. I don't even do it when drunk, sometimes it's just gotten late, craic is sh1te and money is disappearing at a dangerous rate. Time to cut your losses and extract yourself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭NoMore MrNiceGuy


    A guy I know did this so often he was nick-named Don't Go. Or Don't for short.

    Or the D man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    I do this all the time.

    Feck off whenever i feel too drunk.

    Its easier than having people tell you to stay, you keep saying no, stay for one more, no.

    Soo much easier.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I just tell them that I'm going and leave. I have one friend who does it all the time, one time we were leaving one pub and walking to another and he simply walked over to a parked taxi and got in without saying a word to us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,351 ✭✭✭Littlehorny


    This reminds of one night the brother in law disappeared on a night out. Coped he was gone, rang and text him, no answer. Found out the next morning that this new drink he had discovered which he had been boasting about was the greatest thing since sliced bread had put a quick end to hie evenings entertainment. That's right you guessed it Bulmers Pear Cider!
    He said he drank about four on them and got this unmerciful pain and barely made it to the jacks. He said it was like a hand grenade went off in his jocks. Anyway he couldn't come back and tell me he was heading home as he knew i would slag the bollox out of him in front of a gang of lads.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,605 ✭✭✭yipeeeee


    Love doing it, gives me a great Buzz and certain freedom when I know I'm legging it in a minute and no-one is none the wiser!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    We call it pulling a skinny :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 388 ✭✭Gooners


    Ah Ireland...The country where it's the norm to sneak off to the pub but you are a weirdo if you "sneak off" home when you have had enough and the others want to stay out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,242 ✭✭✭duffman13


    braddun wrote: »
    most light drinkers will sneak away

    Do us Irish still measure our dick size by the amount if alcohol our body can consume?

    Happy days, mines massive!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    PUB Crawling is ****e.


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