I was bartending at the piano bar and excited about the next day. After more than a year of having a blow box in my car it was scheduled to be taken out. Obviously, I’m not proud of my DUI and would rather not talk about it, but I was glad the long ordeal with…

I’ve had two off sale jobs (selling booze) in my career and I have mixed feelings about them. On the plus side they were good places to work for, with good management and staff. You could also read and do schoolwork when you aren’t selling beer or stocking alcohol. Individual interactions with patrons are also…

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” -Hanlon’s Razor Some people are just dumb. It doesn’t matter how old they are, how much experience they’ve accumulated, or even if they’ve taken classes at elite colleges to put pieces of paper on their walls. Think of the first two laws of human…

Maybe I attracted crazy women, perhaps it was the nature of the industry, or it could have been the booze, but I didn’t have many great dates during my career. One girl I met was so obnoxious eventually I just turned my whole body away from her until she got the point and left… and…

I never liked night clubs, even though my friends and I went to them in our 20s. I’ve never met a decent girl at one, nor have I taken one home at the end of the night. This was mostly because I’m soft spoken, clubs are loud, and I don’t mix well with most girls…

I brought Mary to my lounge for some drinks. She was cute and interesting enough, but maybe eating cherries and orange slices out of the bartender’s fruit tray should’ve been a red flag. In hindsight that’s obvious, but as a young man who found it hard to meet women I gave her a chance. ***…