If you become a warrior, you have special responsibility for protecting the pool table, dart board or other games equipment from any potential harm or damage. You may adopt a somewhat proprietorial manner in this context, preventing outsiders from spilling their drinks on the pool table, for example. Finally, you must never take advantage of your privileged status. In short, being a regular is a bit like being a member of a close-knit extended family, with all the advantages and disadvantages that this entails. The pub, to many natives, is a second home and some probably spend more time in the pub than they do in their own homes.
Most foreigners find it hard to understand the British love-affair with the pub.
We hope that this book has explained some of the irresistible attractions of the pub, and, more important, made you want to discover them for yourself. They may claim that there are no rules of etiquette, and that their behaviour is totally natural and spontaneous. They are right, in the sense that they obey the laws of pub etiquette without being conscious of doing so just as we all automatically get dressed in the morning, without reminding ourselves that there is an unspoken rule of etiquette which prohibits going to work in our pyjamas. Others will not deny the existence of pub-etiquette rules, but will insist that we have got them wrong. They may also be right, in that there are undoubtedly many local variations and exceptions which are not covered in this guide.