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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you English OP? were/are "sat" at the bar is a very English way of stating things (and one that their grammarians frown at as well, but that's another thread).

Best advice in America- the bartender probably did not care at all about the tip. At all. they were probably more annoyed about providing food service at a busy bar and the iced tea is all the way over in a pitcher near the waitress station or something. [/quote]

? DP, southern American and I would say “was sat at the bar”. [/quote]

I don’t think this is a British way of speaking.  I would say “I was sat at the bar”’ if the hostess sat me there.  I would say “I sat at the bar” if I selected that seat.  Born and raised here in the USA.[/quote]

Please stop. It's "I was sitting"[/quote]

The relevant thing here is that someone else made the choice for OP.

If you go into a restaurant, and they say "choose your seat" and you sit at the bar, then the etiquette is different.  But in this case, OP would have been sitting at a table, except the host(ess) SAT them at the bar.  They were SAT there.

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