Jimmy Buffett Pays For Own Drink For First Time In 17 Years

MIAMI BEACH, FL—Entertainment personality and novelty-song writer Jimmy Buffett sustained confusion Monday after being forced to hand over approximately $10 for an alcoholic beverage he ordered at Miami Beach’s Beachcombover’s Dugout Bar And Grill, an incident that had not occurred since the late 1980s. “I’m still not sure how it happened—I ordered a Long Island Iced Tea, drank it, and got up to leave as usual, but then the bartender stopped me, and I didn’t know what he wanted me to do,” said Buffett, 60, who composed a bitter yet theoretically humorous ballad about the incident later that day. “When he requested money for the drink, I thought, well, that’s reasonable. But then no one would give him any.” Bar staff said that perhaps the timing of the incident contributed to Buffett’s predicament, since during the day potential drink-buyers typically spend their weekday afternoons managing shoe stores, adjusting claims, or entering data.