[GH85Carrera]

I was watching another cop TV show and all the officers in a squad were at a bar where the bartender knew them by name and drink they wanted.

I see that scene in movies as well, the neighborhood bar that seems to be much like the bar in the TV sitcom "Cheers" when everybody knows your name.

I have never lived in a major metro downtown area, and have no plans to ever do so.

So my real question how many of you ever go into a bar, and pay a bartender for drink, just to stop after work and talk to friends you know are going to be there? Like the cops and private detectives all seem to do in TV and movies.

Yea, I know it is just a TV or movie, but that must be based on something.

I can think of just a couple of times in my life I went into a bar just to have a beer. I would not order a cocktail if it was free, just beer for me. The two times were long ago, and the cigarette smoke was just too horrible to stand for long.

I for sure went to nightclubs out on the hunt for women, but that is far from the standard bar scene of guys just sitting at the bar and drinking. Maybe the neighborhood bar in an downtown area where I grew up (like the TV shows) is a real thing. I see lots of bars but I just don't go in.

One thing I do see, and have done is a few guys get together but plan a trip to a restaurant bar and go sit at the bar, order some beers, and a meal. That can be fun if you have some buddies to chat with up front. But I do that 5 or 6 times in a year, certainly not regularly.