I collect bars. Restaurants too, to some degree but mostly I care about bars that can make a mean classic cocktail such as a perfect rye manhattan. I appreciate

I collect bars. Restaurants too, to some degree but mostly I care about bars that can make a mean classic cocktail such as a perfect rye manhattan. I appreciate that people frame their experiences however they wish, but having said that I'm also deeply uncomfortable with being an unwilling extra in people's photos, and flash photography is the worst. I don't care that you really want to take a picture of this amazing drink you just ordered, or whatever, but what happened to showing some respect to people around you? Flashing lights is a harsh yank out of the escapist experience a bar is designed to provide, and it upsets me more than perhaps it should. I also don't want to be in your pictures, and find it rude that I must make an effort to get out of the shot, rather than you making an effort be more respectful. ("You" not referring to you of course, but an imaginary person.) Some places I've gone have asked people kindly to at least turn off the flash, and asked repeat offenders to leave. I wish more would do so. More than that I wish people would learn some common decency.