National Happy Hour Day is celebrated on November 12th every year. Everyone welcomes the idea of a reduced price, especially when enjoying some cocktails, beer, fries, or buffalo wings with friends.
History of National Happy Hour Day
This celebration started with the U.S Navy in 1914, during the early days of the American Mexican War. American sailors aboard the U.S.S Arkansas were looking for ways to relieve stress after a busy day. Happy hour was celebrated with boxing, drinking, and dancing. Although liquor was banned from Navy vessels in 1899, the sailors found a way to sneak a few.
Towards the end of WWII, the happy hour became a thing and spread all over the U.S naval fleets. On April 25th, 1959, a Saturday evening article made Happy Hour popular for everyone outside the U.S Navy.
The National Happy Hour Day remains uncredited but continues to be celebrated all over the U.S today. So, if you have no plans after work today, it’s a good day to spend time with friends and family. Enjoy some jokes. Remember, you can pay less for your favorite drink.
1. A man walks into a bar and orders a drink. The bartender gives the man his drink, and the man asks, “If I show you something crazy, would you let me have free drinks for the rest of the night?”
The bartender thinks for a minute and then says, “it would to be something spectacular to take that offer.” The man leans down and picks up a box, and sets it on the bar. He opens the box, and inside is a small piano man, who is only 1 foot tall and a little piano. The piano man starts playing classical music like Beethoven and Chopin.
Once he finishes, the bartender is in utter disbelief. He tells the man, “You can have free drinks for the rest of the night, but only if you tell where you got this.” The man says, “In the alleyway behind your bar, there is a Genie who is granting free wishes to everyone who wants them.” Elated, the bartender heads behind his bar to see if it is true.
A few minutes passed, and out of the alleyway erupts a cacophony of quacking. The bartender rushes back into the bar and shuts his door against a wave of thousands of ducks. He manages to secure the door and says to the man, “I think that the Genie is hard of hearing because after I asked for a million bucks, these ducks appeared by the thousands.”
The man chuckles and says, “Did you really think I wished for a 12-inch pianist?”
2. I was out for a few drinks with some friends and had a few too many beers…
… and then topped it off with a margarita. Not a good idea.
Knowing full well I was at least slightly over the limit, I did something I’d never done before: I took a taxi home.
Sure enough, I passed a police roadblock, but they just waved it past because it was a taxi.
I arrived home safely without incident, which was a real surprise.
I have never driven a taxi before, and I’m not sure where I got it.
3. My Doctor has advised me to stop drinking – it’s going to be a massive change for me.
I’ve been with that doctor for 15 years…
4. I’m giving up drinking for a month.
*(oops, incorrect punctuation)*
I’m giving up. Drinking for a month.
5. After a night of drinking, a man decides to go for a nightcap
After drinking, he was pretty hammered but was close to home and decided to go for one more round.
He walks into the bar and asks for a drink but is obviously hammered, and the bartender told him, “I’m sorry, sir, you appear drunk, and I will not serve you.”
So the man walks out the side door, a little bummed, but still wants a drink. So he walks around to the sidewalk, sees the bar, and decides to go in for a nightcap.
He walks into the bar and sits down, and orders his drink. The bartender, having already told the man he wouldn’t serve him, “No sir, I will not serve you because you are OBVIOUSLY drunk.”
The man is super bummed out this time and walks out the back door and leaves. But he still wants that nightcap! He walks around to the sidewalk, wondering if any bars would serve him, and looks up and sees the bar and goes in to order his drink.
He sits down and orders his drink, and the bartender, annoyed now, says, “Look, I have already told you twice before I am not going to serve you. You’re drunk.”
The man looks up at the bartender and says, “How many damn bars do you work at?”
Enjoy some more jokes on bartenders.
