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<h2>Negotiating with the overall trainwreck of Long Island Iced Tea people, &quot;pour it with a heavy hand but I don&#39;t want to pay for an extra shot,&quot; &quot;I can&#39;t taste the alcohol,&quot; muddling mint for seemingly endless happy hour Mojitos--bartending can be a true journey in testing your faith in humanity...</h2><p>People who act like everything is fine only to complain about their entire experience in a four paragraph lofty novel to Yelp, birthday parties that split the check 17,000 ways, customers who order a cocktail and then modify it so many times that it turns into just an overpriced neat pour of well whiskey....working in the service industry can be a juggling competition in hell. While most bartenders love their regulars and are happy to make any cocktail a customer wants as long as they&#39;re treated with respect and tipped well, some customers truly try their hardest to fully ruin an otherwise pleasant shift.</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7fev32/bartenders_of_reddit_what_drink_makes_you_hate/">Reddit </a>user asked bartenders, &quot;what drink makes you hate the person ordering it? Either because it&rsquo;s a pain in the a*s to make or because it&rsquo;s a sure sign of a pain in the a*s customer?&quot; people who have worked in bars were ready to vent.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>I work at a dive bar and it drives me bonkers when someone comes in and asks for a fancy martini. We&rsquo;re CLEARLY not that kind of joint. I have one cosmo glass (not even a martini glass) and I probably have to wash it because it&rsquo;s dusty af, then try to cobble together whatever you asked for with my limited ingredients when you won&rsquo;t be happy with the end result anyway because it &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t taste like the one you got at the speakeasy down the road.&rdquo; - lyrynn</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a bartender in Ireland and people ordering Guinness can be really annoying. Some want the head on it large Other want it micro thin. When preparing Guinness you traditionally fill it up 3/4 and then wait 90 seconds for it to settle before topping it up. Some people want it topped immediately, some want you to wait and few demand you wait up to 5 mins Older drinkers demand the old standard glass while new drinkers like the new ones with Harp design. All this and more which you are supposed to know automatically otherwise they complain. 7 years on I have hundreds of Guinness preferences memorized and nothing from my Business Degree - ILikeUkulele</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>I live in Ireland so it shows a painful lack of awareness when a tourist orders an Irish car bomb. Seemingly without even a tiny bit of questioning of why it may cause trouble in certain parts. - macdonik</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>The &quot;come in 30 minutes from closing and ordering 30 mojitos&quot; guy - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>At our bar we have this drink called unicorn juice that&#39;s basically 5 different types of syrup with a shot of rum that&#39;s layered to look like a rainbow. Such a bitch to make and so expensive for only 1 shot of alcohol - SomeKid1990</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I don&#39;t care what they drink, but anyone who snaps their fingers to get your attention is going to be a disaster. - ohheysarahjay</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>The mojito effect. You make one pair of women mojitos, two others see them and order them, and then a group of four, and so on. And suddenly you&rsquo;ve spent a half hour muddling fresh mint and nothing else is getting done. - callmesnake13</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>AMF. It says, &quot;I just turned 21, so I&#39;m gonna get super wasted, spray blue vomit everywhere, and not tip at all.&quot; - J0m1n1n</p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>Someone who orders drinks one at a time instead of giving you the whole order then orders a pint of Guinness <em>last</em>. Bartenders/Guinness drinkers will understand. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to work in a well-known UK bar chain that specialises in flavoured shots (I&rsquo;m sure you can guess what it is), and we did peanut butter martinis. I hated making them with a passion, purely because we had to wash the equipment (strainer, jigger, Boston tin) separately to avoid allergic reactions etc.</p> <p>Used to constantly tell the customer we had no peanut butter hoping they wouldn&rsquo;t notice the massive jar of it behind us.</p> <p>Now they use peanut-less peanut butter. - Mane95thMin</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m fine with making complicated craft cocktails, but if after 4 minutes of me shaving nutmeg and plucking mint leaves I serve you your drink and your indecisive friend just goes &quot;Oh that looks good, I&#39;ll have one of those&quot; F*CK YOU CRAIG, I could have made two of these in the same shaker at the same time but now I have to do this shit all over again and I&#39;m 5 tickets deep and the servers are getting pissed at me - Galileo258</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Once had &ldquo;8 espresso martinis please!&rdquo; And then several complaints after it took more than 5 minutes to make them all. - coolatomic360</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>I enjoy making non-basic drinks for people, makes me feel like an actual bartender and not just a &quot;drink pourer&quot;. That being said, when our bar is busy and someone asks for an ice cream drink, they can f*ck right off. Brandy Alexander, grasshopper, pink squirrel, f*ck you! - TonguePunchnFartBoxs</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m a beertender, not a full-fledged mixologist, but &quot;Whuddya got on tap?&quot; has started to really wear on me. Listen, Gary (or the 45-year-old man name of your choosing), first off, we have 200 bottles and cans you might like, and secondly, it&#39;s written on the tap handles. In big letters. Break out your readers.</p> <p>Sorry. I&#39;m burnt out. This is the hill on which I have chosen to die. - thelasthendrix</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I had a drink at (another bar) that was sooo good! Can you make that? It was pink. I think it had vodka?&quot; - BongRipsForNips</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Worse than &quot;surprise me!&quot; kind of order is people being vague or have to tell a riddle to order one drink. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve found that martinis, rather, martini drinkers, are usually problematic. Especially if they don&#39;t know how to order it the way they want. If you just want stirred piping-cold vodka, just say that. If you want half a cup of olive brine, just say that. If you want me to shake the everloving christ out of it, just say that. No, we don&#39;t have blue-cheese stuffed olives and you&#39;re gross for wanting that. - metal_monkey80</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Moscow mule. Some people insist it&#39;s made with mint and some people insist it&#39;s not. No matter how i make it, I&#39;m taking a 50/50 chance that I&#39;m going to have to remake it... Also old ladies who order margaritas are almost always sure to be a pain. Or people who try to tell you how to make a custom shot, you know they&#39;re going to be picky if it doesn&#39;t turn out exactly how it was at the last place they had it. - AliosSunstrider</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>Manhattans or Old Fashioneds. It&#39;s not necessarily the drink but the customer that will order it when they have no idea what&#39;s in it. Top shelf Long Island is a good one too... Let&#39;s take all these expensive liquors that are made to be drank on their own, mix them together and then add some sour mix with a splash of coke. - HoboJoe278</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 bartenders share the drink orders that make them hate the customer.

Negotiating with the overall trainwreck of Long Island Iced Tea people, &quot;pour it with a heavy hand but I don&#39;t want to pay for an extra shot,&quot; &quot;I can&#39;t taste the alcohol,&quot; muddling mint for seemingly endless happy hour Mojitos--bartending can be a true journey in testing your faith in humanity...People who act like everything is fine only to complain about their entire experience in a four paragraph lofty novel to Yelp, birthday parties that split the check 17,000 ways, customers who order a cocktail and then modify it so many times that it turns into just an overpriced neat pour of well whiskey....working in the service industry can be a juggling competition in hell. While most bartenders love their regulars and are happy to make any cocktail a customer wants as long as they&#39;re treated with respect and tipped well, some customers truly try their hardest to fully ruin an otherwise pleasant shift.So, when a Reddit user asked bartenders, &quot;what drink makes you hate the person ordering it? Either because it&rsquo;s a pain in the a*s to make or because it&rsquo;s a sure sign of a pain in the a*s customer?&quot; people who have worked in bars were ready to vent.1. I work at a dive bar and it drives me bonkers when someone comes in and asks for a fancy martini. We&rsquo;re CLEARLY not that kind of joint. I have one cosmo glass (not even a martini glass) and I probably have to wash it because it&rsquo;s dusty af, then try to cobble together whatever you asked for with my limited ingredients when you won&rsquo;t be happy with the end result anyway because it &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t taste like the one you got at the speakeasy down the road.&rdquo; - lyrynn 2. I&#39;m a bartender in Ireland and people ordering Guinness can be really annoying. Some want the head on it large Other want it micro thin. When preparing Guinness you traditionally fill it up 3/4 and then wait 90 seconds for it to settle before topping it up. Some people want it topped immediately, some want you to wait and few demand you wait up to 5 mins Older drinkers demand the old standard glass while new drinkers like the new ones with Harp design. All this and more which you are supposed to know automatically otherwise they complain. 7 years on I have hundreds of Guinness preferences memorized and nothing from my Business Degree - ILikeUkulele 3. I live in Ireland so it shows a painful lack of awareness when a tourist orders an Irish car bomb. Seemingly without even a tiny bit of questioning of why it may cause trouble in certain parts. - macdonik 4. The &quot;come in 30 minutes from closing and ordering 30 mojitos&quot; guy - [deleted] 5. At our bar we have this drink called unicorn juice that&#39;s basically 5 different types of syrup with a shot of rum that&#39;s layered to look like a rainbow. Such a bitch to make and so expensive for only 1 shot of alcohol - SomeKid1990 6. I don&#39;t care what they drink, but anyone who snaps their fingers to get your attention is going to be a disaster. - ohheysarahjay 7. The mojito effect. You make one pair of women mojitos, two others see them and order them, and then a group of four, and so on. And suddenly you&rsquo;ve spent a half hour muddling fresh mint and nothing else is getting done. - callmesnake13 8. AMF. It says, &quot;I just turned 21, so I&#39;m gonna get super wasted, spray blue vomit everywhere, and not tip at all.&quot; - J0m1n1n 9. Someone who orders drinks one at a time instead of giving you the whole order then orders a pint of Guinness last. Bartenders/Guinness drinkers will understand. - [deleted] 10. I used to work in a well-known UK bar chain that specialises in flavoured shots (I&rsquo;m sure you can guess what it is), and we did peanut butter martinis. I hated making them with a passion, purely because we had to wash the equipment (strainer, jigger, Boston tin) separately to avoid allergic reactions etc. Used to constantly tell the customer we had no peanut butter hoping they wouldn&rsquo;t notice the massive jar of it behind us. Now they use peanut-less peanut butter. - Mane95thMin 11. I&#39;m fine with making complicated craft cocktails, but if after 4 minutes of me shaving nutmeg and plucking mint leaves I serve you your drink and your indecisive friend just goes &quot;Oh that looks good, I&#39;ll have one of those&quot; F*CK YOU CRAIG, I could have made two of these in the same shaker at the same time but now I have to do this shit all over again and I&#39;m 5 tickets deep and the servers are getting pissed at me - Galileo258 12. Once had &ldquo;8 espresso martinis please!&rdquo; And then several complaints after it took more than 5 minutes to make them all. - coolatomic360 13. I enjoy making non-basic drinks for people, makes me feel like an actual bartender and not just a &quot;drink pourer&quot;. That being said, when our bar is busy and someone asks for an ice cream drink, they can f*ck right off. Brandy Alexander, grasshopper, pink squirrel, f*ck you! - TonguePunchnFartBoxs 14. I&#39;m a beertender, not a full-fledged mixologist, but &quot;Whuddya got on tap?&quot; has started to really wear on me. Listen, Gary (or the 45-year-old man name of your choosing), first off, we have 200 bottles and cans you might like, and secondly, it&#39;s written on the tap handles. In big letters. Break out your readers. Sorry. I&#39;m burnt out. This is the hill on which I have chosen to die. - thelasthendrix 15. &quot;I had a drink at (another bar) that was sooo good! Can you make that? It was pink. I think it had vodka?&quot; - BongRipsForNips 16. Worse than &quot;surprise me!&quot; kind of order is people being vague or have to tell a riddle to order one drink. - [deleted] 17. I&#39;ve found that martinis, rather, martini drinkers, are usually problematic. Especially if they don&#39;t know how to order it the way they want. If you just want stirred piping-cold vodka, just say that. If you want half a cup of olive brine, just say that. If you want me to shake the everloving christ out of it, just say that. No, we don&#39;t have blue-cheese stuffed olives and you&#39;re gross for wanting that. - metal_monkey80 18. Moscow mule. Some people insist it&#39;s made with mint and some people insist it&#39;s not. No matter how i make it, I&#39;m taking a 50/50 chance that I&#39;m going to have to remake it... Also old ladies who order margaritas are almost always sure to be a pain. Or people who try to tell you how to make a custom shot, you know they&#39;re going to be picky if it doesn&#39;t turn out exactly how it was at the last place they had it. - AliosSunstrider 19. Manhattans or Old Fashioneds. It&#39;s not necessarily the drink but the customer that will order it when they have no idea what&#39;s in it. Top shelf Long Island is a good one too... Let&#39;s take all these expensive liquors that are made to be drank on their own, mix them together and then add some sour mix with a splash of coke. - HoboJoe278 

Negotiating with the overall trainwreck of Long Island Iced Tea people, &quot;pour it with a heavy hand but I don&#39;t want to pay for an extra shot,&quot; &quot;I can&#39;t taste the alcohol,&quot; muddling mint for seemingly endless...