We had our monthly quiz last night and in true December style it was Christmas themed. It was also my first time to be quiz master which is a job I actually quite enjoy. I tried to give my voice a bit of a break so there were 30 questions and 20 pictures and all in all it was a good night.
Financially the quiz night is also a pretty good night. It can be double sometimes triple the takings from a standard Tuesday night and given the utility bills I'm happy for the business.
The crowd in for the quiz are predominantly the same people week on week out. Its a nice group and some of the ladies help out by making sandwiches (a concept lost on me - who gives out free food during a quiz????) and we do half the quiz, sandwiches & scores and then round 2. During the sandwiches last night it all started to go a bit wrong. The glass washer broke, we couldn't find the trays for the food, people were moaning as they hadn't got a free sandwich and poor Michelle was looking a little frazzled.
Lee stepped in to help out and opened the till to find one of the old £20 notes. I think these came out of tender either end of Sept or end of Oct but I wasn't too stressed as I think banks / post offices will still pay it in. I wasn't stressed about the £20 note until we picked it up and realised it's a fake.
Lee was all set for me to stop the quiz and confront everyone to find out who it was. I took a different approach as I didn't really want to cause a scene and decided to just chalk it up to experience.
What's most upsetting is that there were only locals in the pub that night, the fact that they would use the quiz night to not only get rid of a note that is no longer legal tender but to use a fake as well. It really takes the piss.
Perhaps things with the quiz need a bit of a shake up!!! People often resist change, so maybe some change for the quiz night will be a shock. Maybe people don't get free sandwiches any longer.... "bah-humbug"