bar bathroom reader poll

Last night I had drinks with an old friend from high school. We were in a bar, sitting at a table near the window, with no other patrons nearby, when he announced that he had to go to the men's room and walked off towards the bathrooms still holding his beer.

When he returned from the men's room, beer still firmly clutched in the same hand, I asked about it, and he said "I only need one hand for this operation!" and that he thought all guys did that.

I said I thought maybe a guy would take his beer into the men's room in a crowded party in which there's nowhere to safely leave the beer, or if he is in a bar alone, without someone to watch his drink. (My friend objected that if I watched his beer for him, he would not be able to continue drinking while in the men's room, which was, as far as I was concerned, well, kind of the point). But if one is drinking at a table with a friend, I daresay most people would leave their drinks in the care of their drinking companions.

Menfolk, please feel free to comment in the comments.