The C-Note, the Friendly Tavern and the Lok-Nar
As you all well know, things have been a bit... tepid at the bar. Well, that all changed last night with a $100 tip!! Okay, not really... A girl ordered a couple of drinks, and tipped a couple of dollars, which was fine. But on the customer copy of the c.c. receipt, she wrote $100 for the tip. A joke, I suppose, for her friends, or whatever. It didn't matter, as I'd already rung her ticket through, including the $2 tip. My co-worker found the receipt and freaked. She was very excited, to say the least (especially since we split the tips between the two of us). I noticed right away that it was the duplicate copy, and saw the name and knew I'd already cashed her out. I figured out the joke right away, but decided to let it carry on for a while. "G" kept showing it to everyone, and remarking that this girl wanted "into your pants, bad!" I finally broke the news to her, yet she was still trying to figure out how to make it true. The girl did, in fact, sign the copy, so we'd have a legitimate argument for it, but I don't work that way, and don't feel like paying back the bill later down the road when she complains.... It was a nice thought, though.
The bar manager found a great cartoon in the latest issue of Playboy, and hung it up over the bar. It shows two businessmen walking past a pub. The one is saying to the other, "It used to be called the Friendly Tavern..." The name on the window is the "Fuck You Bar". This is quite funny, as that is precisely the attitude a lot of the bar employees (not just ours) are getting lately. No one is making any money, and with limited customers, you want to get the best ones in. The lousy ones you just don't care about. "A glass of water? Fuck you!" It fits. Very apropos....
"K", the manager, recently downloaded "Heavy Metal" and transferred it to video tape, and has been playing it nightly, after the bar closes. He and I are the only employees old enough to remember the original release, and he's been gleefully sharing it with all the 'kids'. He's been trying to get me to stay and watch it with the 'gang', but I just don't have it in me. It really is a great movie, for what it is, or, more to the point, was, but I would rather get that extra hour and a half of sleep... Maybe some night. Sometime. Sure....
The bar manager found a great cartoon in the latest issue of Playboy, and hung it up over the bar. It shows two businessmen walking past a pub. The one is saying to the other, "It used to be called the Friendly Tavern..." The name on the window is the "Fuck You Bar". This is quite funny, as that is precisely the attitude a lot of the bar employees (not just ours) are getting lately. No one is making any money, and with limited customers, you want to get the best ones in. The lousy ones you just don't care about. "A glass of water? Fuck you!" It fits. Very apropos....
"K", the manager, recently downloaded "Heavy Metal" and transferred it to video tape, and has been playing it nightly, after the bar closes. He and I are the only employees old enough to remember the original release, and he's been gleefully sharing it with all the 'kids'. He's been trying to get me to stay and watch it with the 'gang', but I just don't have it in me. It really is a great movie, for what it is, or, more to the point, was, but I would rather get that extra hour and a half of sleep... Maybe some night. Sometime. Sure....
posted by Turtle at 7:47 PM
2 Comments:
It's not just the bar that is tepid, have you taken a good look around? Many businesses are no longer in business, or are doing poorly.
We have seen many small restaurants go under, along with quite a few moms-and-pops. And if us job-holding adults are having a hard time, I can only imagine about the students.
Glad to see that you are probably getting out at a good time.
- KA
The rumor mill hath it that a new Heavy Metal flick is in the works. I never saw the second one, but the first will always be a classic.
Wow! Nice landing, man.
;-)
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