Reputations

Reputations come and reputations go. When we took over the Spread 18 months ago it definitely wasn't the place to be if you were under 60. The owner, a retired businessman with essentially limitless amounts of money created the atmosphere of a private club and filled it with older people that he liked. Younger folk were not welcome (though if they ventured in they were plied with free drink) and if they came in they didn't stay long.

Saturday nights are the busiest of the week, but tonight was exceptional. The usual suspects turned up in large numbers and much earlier than usual and stayed until chucking out time. It was very busy for over 4 hours. There was almost no trouble at all. Everyone we spoke to said they'd had a great night - one painfully well brought up lad even said "thank you for having us" which I was taught to say to people after primary school parties and haven't heard anyone say since about 1968.

Their singing hasn't improved though.