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DOG EATS DOG 18 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
I have to change the names and the exact location in this next post. Let’s just say it happened in a very busy bar, in a small town where I was living at the time. I worked at a pub right up the str...
THAT FORMER EMPLOYEE IS WORKING … WHERE? 10 Aug 2013 | 11:10 am
(We’re still on a break, and continuing with the shorter posts for a couple of weeks. Back with full-length stories in late August.) Johnny D’s has its share of outstanding alumni — people who have ...
BY THE SKIN OF HER TEETH 4 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
(I’m taking a break for two weeks . . . trying to get a running start on a big project. These next two posts will be shorter than usual, then back with the longer stories in late August.) Here’s som...
A TALE OF TWO WORMS 27 Jul 2013 | 03:59 am
Here’s two stories about my least favorite industry type — the low-living (slimy) restaurant worm. I won’t say where the following incidents took place, but they both happened a long time ago, and de...
“BOOM-BOOM” (Pauline; Part II) 19 Jul 2013 | 11:07 am
(Click here to read Part I) (Not Pauline, but it gives you an idea of how hot she looked that Halloween. Image by Sofia Sicilia.) Pauline and I continued to get together in our irregular way — once...
“BOOM-BOOM” (Pauline; Part I) 12 Jul 2013 | 09:18 am
I was back to strictly bartending again . . . this time at an Italian restaurant in Boston’s North End. For the last two years I’d been working 60-70 hours a week as a GM — working so much that more ...
DON’T READ YELP! 29 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
“What me … Extortion???” (Yelp! spokesperson … oh wait, that’s actually Alfred E. Newman. My bad.) Lenders who hand and agrees to save money is Generic Cialis Generic Cialis right from damaging you...
BARTENDER-Larger-Than-Life (Aaron Bardolino) 21 Jun 2013 | 11:18 am
Everything about Aaron was a bit over the top — the way he acted, the way he dressed, the way he talked. Consider his girlfriend. He’d met her back in junior high when they were both around eleven or...
CONFUCIUS IN THE HOUSE (and other bar stool philosophers) 14 Jun 2013 | 10:53 pm
“I know it’s early,” Stacey said when she woke me up. She kept gently shaking my shoulder. “I know it’s early . . . and I hate to do this,” she said. It was eight o’clock in the morning and … Contin...
IT’S HIGH TIDE behind the bar 7 Jun 2013 | 09:12 am
(A couple of weeks ago we told a story about being in the weeds while making fresh-squeezed OJ. That got me thinking about all the difficult shifts that happen on this job. This is another of them ....
