Yeah, I often like eating earlier and in some places, happy hour can be a really good deal. Just ate at my standard pre-theater place a couple nights ago that has $1 oysters--which I love but hate spending $3 each on.

$3 is cheap. I just paid $3.75 each in Seattle and that was a discount compared to what some of the nicer/more touristy places in town wanted.

Yeah. I'm sort of amazed this place still has them at that price. Surely it's a loss leader to get people in at Happy Hour. (This is Massachusetts.) Works for me though. While I otherwise like the place well enough I'd probably be going somewhere else absent the happy hour oysters.