About a couple weeks ago, I was talking to one of my friends about a conversation he had with another friend of ours on why she thought he was wasting his life and talents away by hanging out at a restaurant. So we were talking about this, and we both agreed that it was sort of funny that our friend, saying that he was wasting his life away by going to a restaurant, goes and hangs out at a bar just as much as my friend goes to the restaurant. In my opinion, the only real difference between a restaurant and a bar is the fact that a bar has alcohol and a restaurant, or at the one my friend goes to, doesn’t have alcohol. Other than that, both places are really the same, if you think about it. I mean, both seem to have the drama factor implanted in them, which is something you can never really get away from unless you just stay at home and go no where. However, there are some advantages and disadvantages in both bars and restaurants, being one advantage with a restaurant you will never have to worry about getting into a drunken brawl with anyone, unless if it’s late at night and the bars are closed so everyone there to sober up, but the ratio of someone getting into a fight in a restaurant is very slim to none. The disadvantage, though, to a restaurant than a bar is the fact there a lot of younger people there and that can be a problem if you are over the age of twenty-five. If you go to a restaurant almost all the time, and you are over the age of twenty-five, it starts to look weird to some people because all you are around are people just fresh out of high school or still current. Which makes the advantage of a bar easy; everyone in the bar is, or suppose to be, of the age of twenty-one and older. If you are hitting on anyone at a bar, you’ll feel much more comfortable because you know they are of age as oppose to a restaurant where there’s a chance of someone there that is underage. However, as the old saying goes, “You can never find anyone good at a bar”, which is very true talking from experience. There’s a better chance of finding someone better at a restaurant considering without alcohol around, you can actually talk to a person in a sober state. Another example why a bar is not a good hangout is that most bars don’t really have people there you can talk about interesting topics, and if you are someone that craves intellectual conversations you can forget a bar completely, considering the patrons at a bar mainly consist of alcoholics, lushes, sluts, and so on. It’s really hard to find an actual bar where you can carry a good conversation with someone without some lewd and stupid outburst. And finally, another reason why restaurants are better than bars is that alcohol plays a huge role among law enforcement, being that if you have over .08 alcohol blood content, you get a DUI which now is a $10,000 fine and is considered a felony. Honestly, .08 alcohol blood content is not that much, I mean, that’s only ¾ of a beer, or most beer. It’s kind of sad if you drink a bottle of Nyquil you can get a ticket. But, in my opinion, the best hangout overall is a coffeehouse. For one, you do have a lot of people there that are above the age of eighteen, even though there is a considerable amount of people under that age as well. Also, the conversations are much better. So, where is your desired hangout?
