With summer finally upon us, plenty of us will be using the hot weather as an excuse to get our shorts on and head out to the beer garden for a few pints.
This was exactly 19-year-old Jack Potter's plan on Tuesday night, following a workout at the gym. His mates had recently got back home to Brentwood, Essex from university, so he messaged them telling them to get down to their local for a catch-up.
Sadly, his calls for a weekday sesh went unanswered in their group chat.
Explaining his predicament to LADbible, Jack said: "The weather was beautiful, but they've all just started new jobs so they were bottling going out. I knew half of them wouldn't even reply, let alone turn up, but I wasn't having it."
Credit: Jack Potter
Already at the pub and faced with the prospect of a man-date between him and the one mate who had turned up, he knew some extreme measures were called for.
He decided to message them saying he had bought them a pint. However, he knew they wouldn't believe him without photographic evidence. So, having already got himself a pint of Fosters, he took a Snapchat of it and, using the scissor tool, he copied and pasted four more pints alongside his.
He then sent them the following picture to his friends...
Credit: Jack Potter
Lo and behold his friends began tipping up. Needless to say they weren't happy when they realised they'd been duped.
Jack said: "The first mate came in the beer garden and first thing he said was: 'Where the fuck's the pints, then?' So I told him to go buy them himself and stop being a cheapskate, and he stormed off to the bar."
Credit: Jack Potter
One-by-one the rest of them showed up, with a total of seven eventually arriving. Although they were disappointed not to get a free bev, they all saw the funny side in the end.
Jack said: "We all had a laugh about it - [it] didn't end up in a proper argument or anything as they can take a bit of banter."
The group stayed until the beer garden closed and everyone had a good laugh.
Describing how it felt to arrive and find out there were no free pints on offer, Jack's mate Lewis said: "When they broke the news, I was so shocked and confused. I was pissed for a minute but eventually I saw the funny side.
He added: "The sun was out, we were in a beer garden, and we had nice cold Foster's. What more could you want?"
I guess the moral of the story is: when in doubt, get down to the pub.
Featured Image Credit: Jack Potter