Where I live you have to take a course when you get a DUI. I’m sure that’s common in liberal democracies. In corrupt or authoritarian nations you can probably just bribe the police or judge. In Canada we have provinces and for years mine had the highest DUI ratio per capita. At least we were…

Customer service in restaurants and bars has gotten worse during the last decade (especially since Covid-19). These are signs managers, servers, and bartenders actually care about customers. The more of them you see the better the establishment is.  They say Hello and Acknowledge you Quickly: Like dates and job interviews first impressions matter when entering…

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…