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– Did the stranger appreciate the gesture?
– Did you strike up a conversation?
– Were there any memorable moments?
Tips for Buying a Stranger a Drink
1. Be genuine in your offer.
2. Respect their response, whether they accept or decline.
3. Start with a simple gesture like offering to buy a round for their group.
Let’s spread positivity and hear your experiences buying a stranger a drink! 🌟 #KindnessMatters #PayItForward #SpreadLove
She splashed it on my face and told me to fuck off 😔
I’ve bought hundreds of drinks for people, possibly thousands. I once bought a round for the house and some guy approached me and said he can buy his own drinks. I’m guessing the server told him I was buying him a drink, and he thought I was gay or something.
She TOOK my WHOLE goddamn KIDNEY
I almost never did it. She approached me while we were playing darts and I offered her a drink. We’re married now 😂
To me, offering a drink is an invitation to continue the continuity of all the events proceeding it, not necessarily an initial investment.
I bought a scary dude at a bar a drink once. Just to see what he’d do. No other reason. I’m just dumb like that. It went fine, he was a bit confused. Nothing else happened.
I’ve done it a small handful of times.
A few times it went nowhere, a couple of times we had fun and slept together, once we went on dozens of dates and live together and are engaged now.
An older lady who was deep in a conversation with her friend quietly had the bartender get me a drink. She never looked or said anything to me. Had her back to me talking to a friend. I thought it was nice, said buy her one back. The bartender then said “she isn’t trying to have anything happen. She’s just being nice”.
Uhh yeah. Of course. She’s literally had her back to me all night. I didn’t even pay her any mind. So I said ” I know, I’m just being nice too.” And the bartender acted like I was trying to get with her. But she got the other girl a drink and we went back to not interacting what so ever. Eventually I got sufficiently drunk and went home
I remember seeing a cute girl at a bar in the early evening. One guy bought her a drink, which the bartender delivered. A different guy did the same. She smiled and waved thanks to them. I flagged the bartender down and ordered her a water. She laughed and we chatted a bit. That was the end of it though.
I was the designated wing man, deployed to get the convo started. Early in the evening we saw a group of cute girls, tip the bartender $5 to get them each shots of water. When it arrived they looked over at us, we tipped our glasses to them, they cheered back, clanked glasses, and down the hatch. Oh the look on their faces. My bros did not know how to follow up with banter and striked out as soon as they come over to chat us up.
Sometimes when I’m visiting an unfamiliar bar occupied by a regular crowd, I’ll ask the bartender to buy the house a round. I’m talking hole-in-the-wall, but friendly vibe type of place. Even if there is 15 to 20 people, it is not a wallet breaker if I’m expecting to cover $100 or so. Toss a nice tip on top and you are pretty much family at that point. I’ve never had a negative experience, and I’ve made some quick friends in what would have been an evening drinking among strangers. And typically I get a number of drinks in reciprocation.
It’s not an every time thing because sometimes I want to drink quietly among strangers. Oh and PS… you should have a story ready as to the reason you are buying even if BS. Something to warrant the gesture but not make me a mark. My go to if asked is, “grandson was born today, and I wanted to celebrate with others.”
Don’t ever ask to just buy a girl a drink, ask if she wants to have a drink with you. There’s a difference.
100% said thanks. 60% reciprocated. 99.9% acquaintance level or greater friendship achieved.
0.1% became close friend then turned enemy but had nothing to do with first or 1000th drink.
Like all great stories it was because of the fact that we showed each other what we hated about ourselves. And due to youth we could not see the truth of it.
Lost contact. Can’t repair.
I was bored shitless at a bar after a fucked up breakup, and sent a few beers over to a girl who also looked bored. We had a kid a few years later.
I got pregnant.
I go into a few VFW posts and if I see some old guy drinking PBR. I’ll order myself one and tell the bartender to give him one. One PBR drinker to another. Goes fine. With a buck tip it’s usually a five-dollar bill.
Dangerous game. I’ve had some of the craziest nights from just buy someone a drink
In the type of wanker who when tipsy splashes out, when I used to drink anyway. All my friends and all their partners and anyone in the group got free drinks. I’d go home alone, -$500 for the night. It’s funny now that I’m older and don’t party, how many of them friends I still have. I’d say at least 2 of them I keep in contact with. I’m not a bad drunk just a waste money on people who I shouldn’t waste money on kind of drunk.
They spilled it on one of my friends, he didn’t take it well lmao
I got married young and divorced young too. When I was ready to try dating again I tried buying a woman a drink as an opener. It works significantly worse than just going up to her and saying “hi my name is Red.”
I lost a game of pool to a random guy at a bar once. Bought us both a shot of his choice. No problems.
I’m a guy. A man bought me a drink once. I was fuckin stoked! I thought he wanted to talk sports, there was a lot of “bro” talk. I bought him the next round to pay him back, and then I continued on with my night with my buddies. The next day I realized what was going on and gave myself a little high five
As a dude. I have found that with women… they drink it and leave. I have found with dudes it resolves 90% of tense situations or attempts to break the ice with a dude it is epic. Dudes never get drinks bought for them so they are pumped.
Lots of times for various reasons, it always ends fine. The most interesting thing that happened was the dude happened to be the bar owner and he bought me something much fancier.
I haven’t done that, should I try once even if I am a girl?
My wife and I were at a happy hour at a local Mexican restaurant. Pre-Covid they would lay out an impressive spread of buffet food for free. Drinks were $2 off.
We would drop our sons off nearby for basketball practice and sometimes go for happy hour.
So one Friday night, just after we arrived, an older couple, late 60s or early 70s arrived and ordered their drinks. We shared the same waiter, and we told him we wanted to pay for their drink.
Great! Until they proceeded to absolutely pound margaritas, 3 drinks to our one. After about 90 minutes, we were finishing our second and last margaritas… and they were finishing their sixth margarita, each.
So we waived down our now busy waiter and clarified we would pay for their first drinks and not the 5 subsequent rounds. The waiter laughed and said he hadn’t even told them of our offer yet. Phew.
I do it all the time when the bar line is really long. I walk up to a solo or couple and ask if I can buy them a drink so I can skip the line. Works every time. I get a drink within 5 minutes instead of 25, and they get a free drink. We go our separate ways after that.
She flirted me up a bit. She told me she was there for her friend’s birthday so if I wanted to buy her a drink, I needed to get a round for all her friends. I bought all 5 of them drinks. She took the drinks to their table and ignored me for the rest of the night.
Next time a woman flirted me up at the bar. I went to order a drink and she asked me to get her one. I bought her a drink and she immediately walked away from the bar and didn’t really talk to me the rest of the night.
It was awesome. I was really drunk and I bought a random fella a shot of tequila. He was from Iraq and we ended the night with him hugging me crying because people are usually scared of him…thinking he’s a terrorist. He hadn’t felt included in so long. It was nice. The hangover was not.
The bartender gave me a glass of water that I didn’t ask for but hey I like water. He immediately said, oops that water was for her, and indicated a blonde sitting a few feet away. She was watching all of this, so I picked up the glass of water while making eye contact and licked all around the top of the glass. She laughed, and came over and asked if she could join me.
Bought a group of Latino gang members a bucket of beer once to thank them for having me in their territory and not caving my head in when I wandered in to their local dive bar as a drunk Australian tourist.
Security guys wearing full body black outfits, balaclavas and dark sunglasses checking everyone entering with metal detector wands and patdowns should have been a warning not to enter…but drunk me had other ideas.
Was feeling particularly confident that night so I bought a girl who I made eye contact with at at the bar a drink.
We have 2 kids and have been together for 16 years
My buddy was interested in this girl and wanted to go dance with her, but her friend wanted to leave. Trying to be a good wing man i bought her a drink. This girl that i had been talking to earlier came up to me and said “you fucked up, we were going to take you home with us”. She was holding hands with another girl. Instead of doing the smart thing and explaining it, I was an idiot and said “bullshit, you aren’t together”. They proceeded to make out in front of me and walked out
She tried to run me over with her car some months later
obligatory not me but my dad, he bought a random guy in a bar a drink in the past, ended up talking all night and he became my dads best friend lol
Me (M28) I have too many of these stories as I am quite extroverted and like connecting with strangers. Two of my favourite ones:
– Me and a friend were broke backpackers on a boattrip to a deserted island for a day. Started chatting with the man across from us and eventually he invited us to join dinner in a nice beach restaurant where he had ordered some special local food in the days before. Had a great time, then a day later we met him in the bar again and he just told the waiter to put all our drinks on his tab. What a legend, planning on paying this forward when I have the chance in the future
– Went to a rooftop bar in Germany, started talking very broken German to a man that just hopped in the elevator with us and asked how he was doing. Once we were in the rooftop bar, everything was full. Turned out this man was the manager of the place and got us a table, drinks and even directed some female guests to our table. Fun nights.
I was working on a cruise ship in US, and in the summer of 2005 I decided to spend my 2 months vacation in Las Vegas, instead of going home in Eastern Europe. The plan was to stay at some good friends in Henderson, but for the first week they were away, so I got a room at the Stratosphere Hotel. In the first evening, tired after travelling and with no plans, I went down to the hotel’s PT’s Sports bar, looking to unwind and scout the environment. It was some important game, so the bar was full and very animated. As I was sipping from my beer sitting at the bar counter, I see a beautiful young woman making her way through the mob, reaching the bar 20 feet away from me, and trying to get the bartender’s attention to order something. He was right next to me, and I made him aware of her and also told him that whatever she’s ordering, it will be on my tab. She graciously accepted and, with the drink in her hand, she made her way towards me. What followed after is still a blur in my mind, but whatever I remember is seared deep down in my memories, never to be forgotten: we talked and drank for a couple of hours, and around 11pm she convinced me to take her to a night club, where we drank again and smoked some powerful weed, and I freaked out inside, because I had the feeling I cannot control anything anymore, then around 1 am she took me to a hotel with a cowboy bar, where I rode a mechanical bull, we drank again and she taught me to line or barn dance, and it felt great, although I was the only metal head on that huge dance floor filled with typical cowboys and cowgirls, then we drank some fancy cocktails in another bar with an outside terrace where every table had some nice lit pink and blue artesians for every table (don’t remember much, but I have the feeling now that it was a gay bar), then at 4 am we ended up in my hotel room, where I had one of the best sex of my life for a couple of hours (not going into details), until we both fell asleep, while the sun was rising over the Strip. Around 10 a.m., she wakes up scared, starts putting her clothes on, repeating on and on that she’s late and, when I asked her to stay for a breakfast together, she told me she’s with her parents in the same hotel and they have a plane back home in a couple of hours. I was left perplexed, as I realised she might’ve been underage (I was in my 30’s at that time) and didn’t know much about her, other than her name was Emily and she was from Richmond, Virginia (if any of it true). Never heard of her anymore, but man, that first night on the Strip was the beginning of two crazy months in Las Vegas…
I was in Melbourne alone one night after travelling there for a job interview, sitting on a large couch surrounded by strangers.
The Waitress came around to take my order and I said, “Plus what ever these lovely ladies are having”
They all laughed and I introduced myself and told them my story.
Apparently one of the girls owned the club and thought I was adorable. Wasn’t long before we were in the back room office/lounge room. First time I ever saw a brick of coke chiseled away with an ice pick.
I was sitting at a local bar by myself having a burger and a beer. Suddenly, the bartender brought over a large whiskey shot and I was confused until she leaned in and told me the gorgeous girl I had glanced at a couple times sent it over to me. We’ve been together ever since 🙂
I was at my usual bar in college and it was totally empty that night but I was friends with the bartender, these two guys came in and I overheard it was ones 21st bday so I bought him a drink and we got to talking. They were brothers and the older one was extremely hot. Last call rolled around and we go to walk home and they lived a block from me and we walked together. I ended up asking if they wanted to drink more at my place and we polished off a bottle of whiskey and hung out until daylight.
Im married to the big brother now, been together 10 years and he’s still astonishingly hot.
I bought a drink for a woman one time. Hadn’t made eye contact, no proof she was aware I existed. My biggest problem was that my friend that was with me hadn’t had enough liquid courage to get up and go talk to her himself. I pulled the waitress aside, asked her to buy this woman whatever drink she wanted on my tab, but tell her it was from my friend.
I received a text message at 3am from my friend that same morning that said, “If I marry her, you’re going to be the best man at my wedding.”
Best part is that I have probably one of the greatest photos of me in a tux on their wedding day.