Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 26, 2024

But. but, that’s what bars DO!

Come midnight, the words “Even more” are tacked to the top of the sign.

A Mad TV shout-out. Cool! Lowered Expectations was the name of a repeating sketch on that 90’s show.

And even then, she may be a psychic like the one back on the May 17th strip last year (“Curse of the single psychic” which I remember because I thought she looked & sounded like Dr. Beverly Hofstadter from The Big Bang Theory).

After three or four beers everyone’s expectations plummet to levels they would never have thought possible when sober.

They can’t say they haven’t been warned.

Can’t limit that to just one night, especially after the news that Buttercup skated on the bond and deadline AGAIN. Justice for some follows a long and torturous road, with uncertain resolution at the end.

“First Three Drinks Half-Price” would serve the purpose as well.

BYOBG … Bring Your Own Beer Goggles. They make people look a lot better. Especially at closing time. Told to The Count by a friend, of course.

And the days that I keep my gratitude

Higher than my expectations

Ah! Well, I have really good days

- Ray Wylie Hubbard

Alcohol …. one of the great equalizers.

“The girls all get prettier at closing time” or, to save time, go ugly early

If you think honesty isn’t the best policy, it’s uzually becauze, on some level, you’re ashamed of what you’re thinking or doing.

It’s not like women are honest…

“Beer Goggles Night”?

“Don’t the girls all get prettier at closing time” — Mickey Gilley

“It’s like shooting Silverfish in a barrel!”

Yuck.

Life hasn’t been the same since COVID

Works both ways!

Maybe wash the floor in the Ladies Room?

A free pair of beer goggles with each drink. Yeah. That’s a good marketing point.

And, you might get Lucky.

Any place you have to go where your senses have to dulled by discount drinks to make the choices look good is a BAD place to meet people.

Meet your future spouse in a bar, then on down the road a few years later, you should not be surprised to realize they have a drinking problem.

Your expectations lower the more you drink and the later it gets.

Truth in advertising. What a concept.

Tomorrow will be “Come In After You’ve Had a Few Nite.”

“Drinks half price. Beer googles free.”

“I met her in a bar down in old Soho…”

Wow, brutal honesty, and at a bar no less, welcome to no expectations Tuesday, great cartoon Wiley !

Whose expectations are being Lowered?

Anyone drinking at Lucky’s probably already Has pretty low expectations.

I saw a bar in Ohio with a sign in the parking lot: “Topless Waitresses. False Advertising”.