The bartender asks a guy sitting at the bar, “OK, buddy, what’ll you have?”
“I’ll have a Scotch,” says the guy.
The bartender gives the guy a Scotch and then says, “That’ll be six dollars, please.”
“What do you mean?” the guy responds. “I don’t owe you anything. You offered me a drink.”
At this point, a lawyer from the law firm next door, who was also sitting at the bar, intervenes and says to the bartender, “He has a point. Your offer did not imply an obligation for payment,
but it did represent a verbal contract upon acceptance. So, legally, there’s no requirement for him to pay you for the drink.”
Well, the bartender’s not happy but he realises that we live in litigious times, and he didn’t want to risk an expensive lawsuit, so he decides to let it go.
However, he says to the guy, “OK, buddy, you win. Enjoy your free drink but I don’t want to see you in here again. Take your business elsewhere.”
A few days pass before the guy reappears in the bar.
“What the hell are you doing in here,” asks the bartender. “I thought I told you to take your business elsewhere.”
“What are you talking about?” Asks the guy. “I’ve never been in here before.”
Fearing he’d made a mistake, and knowing there were a couple more lawyers sitting at the bar, the bartender backs down.
“I’m sorry,” says the bartender, “but the likeness is uncanny. You must have a double.”
“That’s very kind of you,” says the guy, “a double Scotch would be great. Thank you.”