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Originally Posted by East Coast Flame
Back in my single days when I just moved to Calgary I loved going to the pub by myself. I really enjoyed pulling a chair up at the bar and having a couple beers. My friends thought I was a lunatic.
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I've totally been like this since moving back. The gf works evenings a lot, and I live in the Richmond area, whereas the few people I managed to keep in touch with the decade I was gone are in Bridlewood, McKenzie Towne & Chapparal Valley respectively. They ain't coming all the way to me to sit in my dingy neighbourhood pub on a Tuesday night, and I don't blame them (and vice versa). I love pulling up a stool at the bar, having a pint or two, crushing some Flames game deal wings and catching a period or two, can't believe how many people I've met that way lately either.
The bar stigma is kinda funny: if you sit at a table in the corner of the pub by yourself, you're an anti-social weirdo. But pull up a seat at the bar and it's normal.