You're standing in a release line when.....

I was going to say, from the handful of lines I've willingly stood in people just line jump to spend time with their friends. Etiquette tends to be dead anymore.

 

beers is srs...i invite him up to my position and demand half his allocation.

 

Option D - your friend can say to whoever is behind him "I'm gonna run up there and talk to my friend, I'll come back here when we're close to the front. You cool holding my spot?" Or you can say to whoever you're by "I'm gonna go hang back there with my friend for a bit, do you mind holding my spot?"

Have been that person before, really not a big deal.

 

The only correct answer.

 

This. I was thinking the exact same thing.

I'd be all like "whew, dodged a bullet there"

 

Many of us do not stand in beer lines.

 

exactly. cold day in hell before I stand in line for beer. #pdxproblems

 

If it's a lined release of course I'll have a fake beard, a branded hat of the brewery, a fake brewers shirt, a clipboard and a fake walkie talkie. As it gets closer to release time I'll start issuing instructions, walk to the front of the line and wait like I work there. I'd say to the acquaintance "I thought your doctor told you to stop standing in lines since the stroke? You go to the front of the line" and wave him up to the front with me.

 

I look around and suddenly realize I'm wasting valuable time, so I go to the nearest liquor store buy a 40 of malt liquor in a bag and go back to the nearest curb and contemplate my poor life decisions.

 

Next Poll:

As you go to get in line for the latest beer release, you see a guy you know vaguely (maybe from the internet?) sitting on the curb drinking from a bag that obviously contains a 40. He looks, if not exactly depressed, at least contemplative.

What do you do?

• Pretend you don't see him.
• Make anonymous call to suicide hotline.
• Get your own 40 and join him

 

I choose D: Send him a beermail!

Cheers!

P.S. I suppose it is only a short matter of time before folks will ask: what's a beermail?

 

Your first mistake is that you are at a release. Do people still go to them? I thought they were a thing of the past?

 

"Nobody goes to beer releases anymore, they're too crowded."
---Yogi Beera (the NY Yankee catcher's cousin).

 

Well, if he was sitting next to a backpack that appears to be full . . .

 

I didn't see the part in the OP asking if anyone stands in line for beer..oh well.If I was in front of someone I would gloat.

 

Realize I was having a nightmare? Wake up and go to the beer store? Or Packy?

 

Classic opportunity for a "Chat and Cut"
Don't you watch Curb your Enthusiasm?

 

I wouldn't be standing in line for a release anyways

 

A regional taproom/burger chain does those. You fill out a postcard, address it to a friend or in-law, scribble a note such as "too drunk to drive, come pick me up". The worker bees all yell "beer mail", and they slap postage on it and mail it for you.

 

Trick questions.....I have no friends as an adult. And that's my choice.