Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness

This evening, with a visiting friend in town, we headed for two cocktail bars that diffrentcolours had researched and we were looking forward to trying.

Of course, this is only possible for us because they had outdoor seating. But both of them told us "outside is closed." One actually stacked up their tables and chairs are. The second might have been even more annoying because there were people sitting outside with their drinks still, but we couldn't have any. Menu on the table, but we had to sit indoors to get a drink. It seems odd for an establishment selling alcohol to not get a pavement lincese past 7 or 8pm on the weekends (if that indeed is what was going on)!

Fine. We took our money elsewhere. It still sucks though.