A bartender says a regular got furious this week because she forgot he drives a Corvette, then explained why lonely regulars are her ‘biggest opps’

Regulars are often described as the backbone of a neighborhood bar, and plenty of bartenders count on them for steady tips. However, one bartender with about a decade behind the bar sees it differently and says lonely regulars are the customers most likely to cross a line. Her TikTok about it has drawn hundreds of thousands of views, according to BroBible.

The bartender posts on TikTok under the name Sclub7, with the handle @andwhataboutitbby. The video opens with on-screen text warning that a bar regular will be a bartender’s biggest worry. She says she has bartended on and off for 10 years, and that a regular became upset with her that week after she forgot that he drives a Corvette.

According to the bartender, his reaction to the forgotten Corvette was almost physical. She says the two had been “cool” before, but that he made things weird by acting as though her time belonged to him. The bartender adds that regulars tend to get too comfortable around the two- to three-month mark, which is when the trouble usually starts.

This bartender says lonely regulars treat the bar like a therapy session

The bartender says male regulars often feel entitled to her time, and that she has had to remind some that a drink is not a counseling session. “This is customer service. This isn’t therapy,” she says in the video. Bartending is often described as emotional labor, with customers treating the bar as a place to talk through their problems. She says these regulars are often her most difficult customers.

The comment section filled up with other bartenders and servers sharing their own versions of the same customer. One commenter said they deliberately work in a different town so they never see a regular “out in the wild.” Others had nicknames ready, with one calling these customers “punishers” and another describing them as “energy vampires.”

Plenty of viewers zeroed in on the Corvette detail. One commenter guessed the regular saw the car as his biggest selling point and was upset that the bartender hadn’t even noticed it. Another viewer said they never let a man who isn’t a close friend buy them a drink at a bar, as accepting one can feel like agreeing to listen to him all night.

Not every viewer agreed with the bartender’s take. One woman wrote that her husband is a daily regular in rural Vermont, where bars serve as third spaces, and that he sticks to two beers. However, she said he keeps his boundaries, and that half his friends are now local bartenders as a result.

The bartender says it is not anyone’s duty to save regulars from the lives they built for themselves, and that lonely regulars are lonely for a reason. The best move, according to her, is to give them their drink and let them be. Questions about what bartenders owe customers have come up before, as with a bartender who assumed two women would tip poorly after overhearing them.

The regular in her story has not been identified, and the bartender may face more questions from viewers who want to know whether he ever returned to the bar after the Corvette incident or patched things up with her.

Attack of the Fanboy was unable to independently verify the customer’s side of the story, as this account originates solely from the bartender’s TikTok video.