How do bartenders stand it?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Bartending at a decent place can be very lucrative. Plus, the decent places have managers to deal with drunks. I frequent a local place where the regulars know one another and the guests feel privileged to have been included. The bartender probably makes as much money as I do at my high risk, high stress, 40+ hour/week job.

I simply can’t get my head around the idea that a bartender might be morally responsible for someone’s alcoholic behavior, it’s nice that Tethered Kite is compassionate though.

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Umm, the quote in my post is from you, referring to seeing a family celebrating at a wedding. Here it is again:

So yeah, I made quite the leap there, delving into the subtext. :slight_smile:

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When you said that I worried that was your invention.

It’s all about my own values system and thoughts. Not anybody else’s as Zago was kind enough to notice.

Now you skip along and MYOB about my values system.

I’m hoping that you are bright enough to already know this and are just being argumentative.

I already know that Elbows is so she just gets the old :rolleyes:.

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The pub where hubby and I have lunch regularly is a sort of “Cheers,” pretty much, everyone knows everyone else. There are a few very obnoxious guys, the bartender has had to “disipline.”
Did I mention she’s a body bulider? She could, if she wanted, physically, throw them out, but, they are all afraid of her, so mostly, behave themselves.
The moral here, is if you want to be a bartender, also be a body builder. :smiley:

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It’s a re-statement of a direct quote and seems a pretty reasonable one, not some radical invention. Let it go.