>>>Coz in the pub Chris you need to "keep up" with the rest of them
Over the (many) years of my adult life, 1ozzy, I've always drunk with mates where 'buying rounds' was the norm, so 'keeping up' was similarly the norm. That was until a few years ago when I started drinking on Sunday evenings with a group of guys where (apart from birthdays, etc) we always 'buy our own'. I do seem to have slowed down a bit - but maybe that's just old age anyway ;-)