Beverage carts aren’t complicated; you hand over money and get given a beverage. However, one Florida-based cart girl was left irked after a customer attempted to open a cash tab—and wouldn’t take no for an answer.
The Golfer Attempts To Implement A ‘Honor System’ For The Beverage Cart
“Unfortunately, when 99% of your clientele is men—specifically men golfing—you’re bound to have silly questions,” TikToker Hailey Poorman (@hahahhailey) began, sitting in what appears to be a field. Text flashed on the screen, reading: “Two years into bev carting I’ve never heard of a ‘cash tab’.”
She then went on to describe how one day, she was handling two groups: a group of 30 and a group of 20—only knowing one person from each group. One guest approached her and asked for three beers. However, rather than paying the $18, he asked Poorman to “tally” up the total drinks they get throughout the day and give her cash in the end.
“And I’m like ‘That’s not how this works,” she continues. “‘If you’re paying cash, that means you give me cash. It’s an exchange we make. I give you beer, you give me money, and you pay for that beer. You don’t just get to like drink for free all day and create like this honor system and give me cash at the end of the day like that. It’s not how that works.'”
After The Beverage Cart Girl Says No, They Continue To Insist
Then, she said, the customer was “rude,” and the situation devolved into a back and forth. He said he doesn’t understand why she doesn’t just do it, and she tells him it’s because “starting a tab implies I already have your money, and I just haven’t charged it yet.”
“When you start a tab at a bar, the bartender takes your card, swipes your card, and already has your card,” she explained. “So, if you drink six beers and then disappear, they’re going to charge you for those six beers and still get paid for the product that you just consumed. I can’t do that if you’re paying cash. I’m just getting you drunk for free all day, and then you’re just going to pay me at the end of the day.
This led to further escalation, with the customer asking Poorman if she thought he was dishonest. In response, she said she didn’t think anything, as she didn’t know him.
Eventually, the customer relents and pays her cash—but she questions why it took so long for him to get there. “Why can’t you just pay as you go, like everybody else?” she asks viewers.
The video amassed 974,200 views. Poorman didn’t immediately respond to BroBible’s request for comment via TikTok comment and email.
Commenters Were Suspicious
In the comments, viewers immediately doubted the customer’s intentions.
“He did not want to pay you at all,” one wrote. “That was the intention.”
“If he gave you a hundred bucks up front and asked to to run a tab – okay,” a second added. “But with no cash exchange [it’s a] no go.”
A third said, “As a bartender, It’s literally so insane when a customer I’ve never met never met before says “you don’t trust me?” I DON’T KNOW YOU!”
A former bev cart girl even offered her take, explaining that “running a tab on a bev cart requires crazy amounts of trust.”
“I only ever did it with people I knew I could trust to not stiff me,” she commented. “Don’t know you? No tab. And this was 20 years ago in (I guarantee based on your beautiful background) a different state. These aren’t new rules.”
Ultimately, the consensus was that Poorman had made the right choice.
Cart Girls Are Dominating TikTok
From pet peeves to how much they make in tips, cart girls have developed quite the following on TikTok. Poorman, for instance, has 30,000 followers—although her account also includes more general content.
Under the tag #cartgirl, there are 25,000 TikToks, while similar tags, like #bevcart, have 20,000 videos.
Moreover, Poorman isn’t the first cart girl to go viral after encountering a strange request from a golfer. In a viral clip from September, TikTok user and cart girl Cat (@cat.on.the.course) sat in her cart as she told viewers, “I swear this is not rage bait. This guy just asked me if I had a root beer. And a Pink Whitney.”
A Pink Whitney is a pink lemonade-flavored vodka. As one commenter on the TikTok pointed out, they are more associated with sorority girls than the usual golfer archetype. “He claims that it tastes like bubble gum,” Cat added, while accompanying on-screen text described it as “the craziest request I’ve gotten as a cart girl.”
@hahahhailey was he trying to scam me for free beer? still so confused by this customer #bevcart #cartgirl #bartender #golfers #bartenderlife