An Irishman stops into a local pub, calls the bar tender and says 'Bar keep, I'll have three pints of ale if you don't mind'
The bar keep replies, 'I can bring ya a pint as you need it, no sense having all three at once?'
To which the Irishman replied, 'Ya don't follow, sorry bout that, it's a tradition that every Monday, where ever I be, I stop in a pub, have three pints of ale. As I have two bruthers' ya see and while we are far a part, we each do the same, so it's a little like we're back together, just for a drink' and winks as he downs his first pint.
The bar keep nods and understands the fellows family tradition and was good with that, so each Monday the same bloke would walk in and say 'Bar keep, three pints if you would please' and there it was.
Til one Monday, the Irishman comes into the pub and says, 'Bar keep, Two pints if you are a mind to bring em to me good sir'
Now the bar keep went to the mans table and said 'I know your tradition and must be one of your brothers is no longer with ye, I'm sorry for that sir' and bowed his head in reverence.
But the Irishman said, 'Oh no sir, my brothers are both fine, I've just given up beer for Lent'
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