It has been a hard week, I have heard people mentioning going off to “get a drink” after work. I have never been one to spend much time in a bar, not because of the people or that I think bars are bad. It is that I am a giant cheap skate. I was in a hotel in San Francisco and I ordered a whiskey on the rocks and it cost me twenty-one dollars. That was for one inch of drink in a small glass of ice. I could have gone down the street to a liquor store and purchased the whole bottle for that price! Granted I was in one of the most expensive places to buy a drink but that was ridiculous. Even at the local bar and grill they want Nine dollars for a glass of the house wine. They probably have it in a fifty gallon drum in the back but they are making a killing on each glass. When the tab arrives I see that the drinks are more than the food I know I have been ripped off. I know it is fun to be with friends, and I know it is better to get a drink while you are out somewhere, the problem I have is I can’t get over the feeling of being taken when I pay more for a single glass of something I won’t spend as much to buy in the store. Of course they will still charge me two fifty for a five cent glass of ice tea.