It's like a sub plot in a movie this real pub malarkey 
It is quite an experience, I can assure you.
It is also great fun, plenty of characters, except of course Mad Mandy!
She spent the evening telling Damien (think he is from Bosnia or some such) she was old enough to be his mother, then took him home and had her wicked way with him.
The next day Damien got a lot of grief from the regulars and wasn't totally sure that when we were complaining about the heating, the phrase "old boiler" was a poke at him.