Wednesday, September 28, 2005


Two Girls All Dressed Up and Ready For Work.... Bartenders are some of the luckiest workers in the world. Where else can you make money having this much fun? They get to meet a large cross section of the population and learn more valuable life experiences more rapidly than in any other job that I know. Some people are very good at it while others are not. Just because it is a great job does not make it easy. I have had numerous people, both men and women, go to work for me thinking they could be a bartender only to find that after a few nights of work that it was not for them. It is tough. You are on your feet for hours at a time, have to be in a good mood, even if you are not, drinks get spilled on you, and you have to remain sober amongst a sea of intoxicated people in varying degrees of alcohol consumption. Bartenders have to know when enough is enough and how to cut off sometimes unhappy and beligerent people. Sometimes they are the bartenders' friends. This is not easy. Quite often, drunk people do many funny things but not as often as you might think. Drunk people always think that they are funny and will repeat what they think is funny over and over, ad nauseum. Sometimes they really do say things that are extermely funny. Last night, one of our customers asked the price of a particular wine, when told its higher than expected price, he blurted out "What the Fuck, over ! ". Not meaning to curse, he changed his statement to "Pray tell, what did you say?". At this the bartender, and everyone else at the bar burst into laughter. For the rest of the night, someone only had to say "Pray tell" to get the laughter started all over again. Working at the bar, what a way to make a living. I hope you have an interesting day.