A red phone box was set to be taken apart by BT, so David Wilson put down £1 and bought it. Bargain.
Phone boxes are known for a lot of things - it's where Clark Kent rips off his clothes to become Superman, where postcards of naked ladies offering a good time pile up like leaves in autumn, and usually where people take a piss when they're drunk. No one uses them for actually making a phone call.
Mostly because the phone cords have been pulled out but hey ho, we've all got mobile phones these days.
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So hotel owner David Wilson made the innovative choice to turn the phone box into The Wee Bar.
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It's at the bottom of David and his wife Clare's business the Kilberry Inn, a small boutique restaurant with rooms in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.
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The unusual pop-up bar is serving G&Ts for free for all the guests at Kilberry Inn - and boy, are they enjoying it.
"It would have cost me £400 to £500 per year to keep a functional telephone in it. So I decided to convert it," explained David.
"In one iteration it was a whisky bar and we served local whiskies. But change is good so we've now set it up as a gin bar.
"We serve Isle of Harris gin, Kintyre gin and gin from the Isle of Jura.
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"Who knows what kind of pub it'll be next. I like to keep it looking traditional."
Yes, David, keeping a gin bar in a telephone box at the bottom of your garden is totally traditional.
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As its so small - only three people can fit into the phone booth, sorry The Wee Bar, at a time.
So David is thinking of letting The Guinness Book of World Records know - it has to be the smallest pub in the world.
And that's not its only claim to fame. "We've held the world's smallest concert inside it - three musicians got in and played a wee song. Jimmy's Balloon were the band who played. They did a local wedding before the concert in the phone booth," said David.
That's right, it's not just a pub, it's also a concert space. Although there wasn't any room for the audience...
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David isn't worried about people coming in and drinking all his gin (that would be my worry for an unlocked gin bar).
"We're in such a rural area that we don't have to worry about theft or vandalism. The gins are free because the only people who go inside are already Kilberry Inn paying customers. It's a wee treat for our customers," he said.
All I heard was free gin.
Despite owning a gin bar at the bottom of his garden, David hasn't gone on the razzle dazzle yet. "I've had a fair few drinks inside it myself but I've never got drunk inside the booth... yet," he said.
Wait til you get the call from the Guinness Book of Records.
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