Time Gentlemen, Please

<rant> So, I'm in the pub, and I'm waiting to be served, but the guy in front of me doesn't know what he wants - nor what his multitudinous mates want. But rather than let someone else be served, he runs to and fro, ordering his drinks one by one, and classic of classics, asks for his Guinness last. And he doesn't know if it's cold or regular. The place is quite busy, the staff are doing their best, and this tube is keeping a half dozen people waiting with his anti-social dithering.

Now, I know the barman, a sound bloke, and spoke to him about this. He said his hands were tied as it was company policy to serve people in turn. But he liked my idea:

Barstaff carry a simple device, say, a bell, and if customers behave in tediously objectionable ways like this, they ring the bell, say "Sorry mate, you'll have to wait till I serve that really thirsty guy behind you and you can write your round down when you finally figure it out, here's a pen <under breath> you twat. </under breath>" This policy is clearly stated on a poster in the establishment, much the same as hostelries are currently obliged to display their price list.

That should get things moving.

And do you know what else he did? When the barman was topping up the Guinness, the knob buggered off to the lav so that when it was time to pay, he wasn't even there!!!

I'dve had an accident if I was handing him the Guinness, methinks... </rant>