What Are You Doing?

Yes, me too, although now I'm not attending high-school. Directing classes are fun and the people consisting of our class are more of the alternative type, good kids. I like them. Problem is that it's far away and sometimes only this parameter makes me lazy. I like attending class, I hate going and returning from there.

 

Cut a slot in the threaded end and wish granted.

 

Drinking port and contemplating a prologue. Not sure it's necessary but I want one all the same. The prologue, that is. The port is necessary.

 

Tell me about it. When I'm out with mates and I ask for a port, whoever's behind the bar laughs at me. Every time.

 

Really? Twenty-odd years ago Bombay Sapphire was top shelf at the bar I worked at (Moe's, but not so clean) and Tanqueray had managed to put "Tanq and tonic" into the lexicon.

Now to go all Shakespearean, I want to find a bottle of "sack" and see what it tastes like.

 

Drinking bourbon and smoking pot. It's 4:30 AM. Long day.

 

Burlap filtered?

 

When I started working at what we'll call Moe's the head bartender told me "Here's the rules, Iain. Three second pour. If somebody's being a pain in the ass that's onetwothree, but if they're a good customer and tip well, it's one, two, so, did you catch the game last night? Pretty impressive pitching, three. Your call. If somebody comes in, especially one a' them damn college kids, and orders something with a name on it you ask 'em what's in it. Mixed drinks are the same price as the most expensive thing in them. If they don't know what's in their damn Venus Eyeball, fuck 'em, they can drink beer. This is a beer and shot place, we don't mess with that fancy stuff here."

ETA We did have a bottle of Long Island that she mixed every week, just add cola IIRC, but that was because one of the regulars liked it. Also kept a bottle of Polish Cherry Brandy in the back freezer for another customer, and JT got his Bombay Sapphire gin and tonics for the well price because the head barkeep told me that was his price, and... delightful old-skool chaos.

 

I love reading these types of conversations.

OT: Wondering how it became July allready and where things are gonna go from here.

 

I would have killed for a jigger. There are ways to long pour those too for good customers, but it was always the PITA guys who were complaining that they didn't get enough booze in their drinks. First ones they did, after they started to whine about it? Yup, I can count to three before the first drop hits the ice. Enjoy your tonic and tonic, bro.

 

I'm no trend-setter, but I'm hopeful for a resurgence.

My husband used to be Captain Morgan- dress up as a pirate and go round all the clubs and bars and promote CM's spiced rum with an awful American accent and a posse of scantily-clad females on his arm. Port needs a mascot.

 

I didn't mean American accents were awful, by the way, merely his attempt at one was awful

 

I never drink or smoke, so when I do, it's the best, AND it feels justified. Helps my mental health too, at least temporily. Recommend me a bourbon, the one I drank was kind of bad, but drinkable on the rocks.

 

One of the first things my friends and I tried when we started sneaking into the liquor cabinet was Tanqueray Gin and Juice. Thank you Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Edit: Looking back, we were shockingly young.

 

That's a fine range.

 

A friend of mine used to work for 7-11 and they talked him in to being McGruff the Crime Dog. Wore this enormous dog's head and a trench coat and went around to schools telling the kids to 'take a bite out of crime'. I kept trying to get him to wander into the police station around 3 AM and confess to everything: 'I rrrrobbed those banks; I wrrrote those bad checks...'.

 

Where can I apply for this job?