Cresselly Arms Pub in March - a photo on Flickriver

Cresselly Arms Pub
A traditional country pub by Cresswell Quay in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. Now a quiet retreat, Cresswell Quay on a tidal creek in West Wales was once a bustling river port lying at the head of the Cresswell River, exporting coal from some 50 small pits inland.

“What a find! A friendly pub serving several real ales. The interior is pale wood and stone walls, the welcome is very friendly on a cold, wet evening in March, and the conversations with locals and landlord were interesting and life affirming. The local darts team, fared well also.”

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The Pub Bait Game

This was a bit of mind game fun that we played on two rather nosey tossers one dreary March evening.

At the time of this tale, we had been attending an out-of-time afternoon wedding reception for one of my wife’s theatre chums.

Treating ourselves to an overnight stay at a rather” nice “ old hotel, The Roch Castle.

Roch Castle | Luxury Castle Hotel In West Wales Hotel, St Davids

For the reception, I was wearing my brown lite checkered suit jacket, with a chocolate mock turtleneck and tan slacks. I even trimmed my beard for the occasion.

My wife was fetchingly wearing a glossy silk dress that I have to say is one of my favorites:

The dress’s silk skirt has solid black pleats, swishing rather adorably below her knees. The chocolate high-necked satin top has a ruffle down one side, 3/4 sleeves with ruffled flares ending just above her elbows. A thin belt of gold with a small gold rhinestone clasp encircles her waist, separating the skirt and top.

A very smashing look all around!

For added adornment, Ginny was wearing mostly rhinestones. Dangling earrings her rhinestone diamond bracelet, several rings

The only real jewellery she was wearing was her 5-carat, 7 diamond journey style necklace dangling on a braided gold chain, an anniversary gift.

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The reception itself was pretty standard fair. We had fun: drinking, a lot of close dancing, and a bit of a sixth-form style of making out in a quiet corner surrounded by tall hedges that we barely managed keeping our clothes on during the interlude.

The wedding reception ended rather anticlimactically, and we found ourselves leaving well before dusk.

This then leads me to the subject of this story.

Since we were all dressed up, and the night still young, and only slightly tipsy, we decided to step out to a pub near our hotel and ended up sitting at the bar.

I lit a cigar and ordered an Irish on the rocks. Ginny ordered a glass of Merlot.

We were sitting close, my arm around my wife’s ultra-soft waist, when Ginny leaned into me and whispered into my ear.
“Discreetly check out that odd couple at the end of the bar. They can’t take their ruddy eyes off of us.”

I managed to catch their reflection in a mirror bar sign hanging at an angle.

A couple of peepers sat at the far opposite end. A rather sly-looking young lass and her male friend.

Ginny was correct, they couldn’t keep their nosey eyes off of us.

Granted we were a wee bit overdressed when compared to the majority of the other patrons, many of which were members of opposing y dart teams holding a rowdy tournament off a side area.

We were watching the game, and the two at the end of the bar were watching us, and obviously making comments our ears could not catch.

At one point Ginny was playing with her necklace and I looked up into the mirror, the girl was touching her throat and pointing to my wife.

Rather annoying pissers the two of ‘em.

I leaned into Ginny and whispered into her ear.
“She likes your necklace luv.”

Ginny nodded that she had been catching onto that all evening, asking me why was I so late to the party.

As we mulled things over, my wife grabbed my arm and murmuring in my ear, mentioned an idea.

I nodded, being all game for it.

Ginny rose and went to the loo which was located behind the annoying couple.

As Ginny walked past them she began flicking her pricey necklace so the diamonds sparkled.

Once in the loo, she removed her glittery diamond necklace, placed it in her purse, and after a bit of freshening up, rejoined me.

It was rather interesting to watch the results:

The Barkeep didn’t appear to give any notice.

But out of the corner of my eye, the man pointed to his girlfriend’s chest and whispered something into her ear, and she immediately looked over at us, her eyes going wide.

The female prat immediately rose and bee-lined for the lady’s loo. She spent a long bit of time in there, finally coming out looking very disappointed over something.

What that something was, my wife and I knew quite well

The lass kept shooting my wife's looks as we sat there innocently drinking and watching the teams toss darts.

After a good long while of letting the pair at the far end of the bar squirm with curiosity, my Ginny gave me a knowing wink, and I agreed not to keep knocking it on, but to drive home the score.

It was then I pointed out to my wife she was missing her necklace

Putting on a pretty good act of being startled, we pretended to have a look around on the floor.

I then pointed to the lady’s loo.

Ginny quickly went scurrying back to the loo.

Coming back, out holding her necklace swinging in her palm, she came up to me and had me help her put the diamonds back on….

The stifled reaction from the couple at the far end of the bar as they tried not to be obviously curious, was priceless…

The keep still paid no heed, though I swore he arched an overly bushy eyebrow.

Soon after the pair of wankers paid their bill and left in a huff.

After a celebratory drink, we also took leave, and returning to the Roch Castle, sill in evening dress, took a late-night stroll around the secluded grounds with a damp fog swirling. Not the most romantic of scenarios, but we ended up making the most of it.

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