How to Scam a Bar Table If You're a Working Actor

Last night we went to see our friend Jill in a nice little Christmas play about torture, murder, and Santa. It was a fun little story, and after the show we went with Jill for the traditional post-performance drink. It was a Saturday night, so the bar we went to was quite busy. After we were there for five or ten minutes, we lucked out and got a table when some people were moving into the restaurant. A little while later, one of the other actors from the show came over. Jill's back was to him, but he recognized us from being in the audience. He asked if we'd enjoyed the show (we told him we had), and then he tried to guilt us into giving him and his friends our table because they'd just finished working so hard to entertain us. At this point he noticed Jill and realized the jig was up, but she later told us that the scam had worked in the past. Apparently, audience members would give up their table and stand so the actors could sit down. There may be a pecking order in the theater, with the actors onstage and the audience sitting watching them in wonderment (theoretically, at least), but in the bar, we're all equal. We'd put our money down for the tickets, and he'd worked for us, which made us even in my book. Any debt either one of us owed the other was paid. If an actor tries to pull this on you after a show, stand up stay seated for your rights and make him get his own damn table.