I open a tab, buy 1 Miller Lite for $3.50.

I close my tab some 30 mins later and my tab is $21.00.

4 Miller Lites $14.00
1 Well Vodka $5.00
1 Energy Drink $2.00

I tell the guy this is not my tab. He says you are the only one with that last name in the bar and so what are you gonna do about it.

I tell him again, I had one miller lite on my tab...this other stuff is not mine.

SO DO NOT GO TO PEARL UNLESS YOU WANT THEM TO RUN UP YOUR TAB AND EXPECT YOU TO PAY IT.

damn, that sucks

last time i was there, i was certain my tab was about 50% less than it should have been. of course, i don't correct that sort of thing. but i did think they probably screwed some other guy over.

i would contest that charge if i were you.

That bartender sounds like a tool

maybe if you hadn't drinkin that vodka/energy drink you would remember better

This happens at EVERY busy bar.

that happened to me times one million at armadillo palace.

Maybe if I hadn't drank that "vodka/energy drink" I would have remembered.

WOW....I am so glad YOU posted because that explains it all.

I had one beer....nothing else. Dumb a$$ bartender threw a bunch of other drinks on my tab.

I will not be going back....I know a lot of people on here like it, but when you get a "piss on the customer" attitude then I will tell everyone I know what happened and myself refuse to go.

He was joking, OP, simmer down.

That sucks. I had the same thing happen to me, once. From here on, if at all possible I pay cash now just to be done with it and not have to mess with cashing out.

I once caught a guy trying to put a drink on my tab after he heard me tell the bartender. I took two steps from the bar and this guy said the same last name. I stopped it right then and there and closed my tab. I wonder how often this happens? Now I like to go where I can get a table at a bar so don't have to yell out the name.

Love putting my drinks on others' tabs.

I feel like it is my way of sticking it to the man.

There are too many d-bags in there.

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Love putting my drinks on others' tabs.

I feel like it is my way of sticking it to the man.

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I'm guessing you are being sarcastic...otherwise, I'm not following how that is "sticking it to the man".

good grief, take a joke man!

Easy, man. I think the victims of this are a little sensitive.

and i thought people were mad after I mugged those girls behind Pearl Bar!

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if you want to get back at them, steal a 12 pack of pearl. they usually leave them stacked up where its an easy steal.

Stealing 12 packs of Pearl? Hell yeah! Stickin' it to them $4 a pop.

this is why i hardly ever open tabs at bars. i always get cash before hand....it keeps this typical BS from happening and prevents me from spending too much $$$

that was a cool bar. its quickly been *****ed up including the valet option.

Opening up a tab for 1 beer? Really?

You don't carry at least $5 most of the time when you're out on the town?

I opened a tab expecting to spend around $20, but the people we ran into kept insisting to buy our drinks.

My tab was opened before we ran into these friends of ours.

It does not make a difference; the point still stands that the bartender knowingly ran up extra costs and blatantly said "what are you going to do about it?"

What I have chosen to do is pay the tab (although I wanted to beat the crap outta that guy and I had thoughts of getting a manager a big piece of my mind) and to tell everyone I know of the bar's poor customer service and how they took advantage.

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The universe has a way of evening things out

The universe has a way of evening things out.

Unique perspective, I just disagree.

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its quickly been *****ed up including the valet option.

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yep. that valet really jams up the road too.

6 drinks for $21, thats a pretty good bargain considering i had 4 totalling $41 last night at The Roof

No....one drink (beer) for $21 is how it played out.

weird, because my tab was exactly what I ordered on saturday. And I left it there for 3 hours while I was on the patio buying Pearls from the Cash Bar with the cute little blonde.

Dispute the charges. Shouldnt have signed the tab, shouldnt have tipped and you should have taken it up with a man in charge, the credit card company. Hell, maybe even the BBB if youre that pissed.

If it makes you feel better I hot drunk and completely ruined a beer pong game between complete strangers by knocking the table down.

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I love when people edit (TWICE) and still have mistakes. Especially when they are being all holier than thou.

last few times no one was playing flip cup

Booooo for that!

never edited for mistakes, just to add content. im not a cooler than cool general board grammer nazi like you and most of the other Houston posters who post on threads just to pad their count to compensate for not having an ag tag.

why would you pay the tab?

These are my favorite type of posts; the ones that talk about bars padding somebody's tab. Not because I like or condone that type of stuff. It really pisses me off. I like them because they always troll out people to say, 'That's why I always pay cash!'.

My second favorite post is the one that complains about a purse getting stolen from a car in a smash and grab. It is a 100% chance that you can troll somebody into posting, 'That's why you always leave your purse under the seat!', or, 'That's why you always bring it in with you!'

I went Saturday for the first time. We were there an hour, I liked it.