07 Sep 10

Comebacks in my head

Working behind a bar, I have gotten a lot of weird comments. Some are bad pickup lines, some are strange requests, but I take them in stride and go with it. However, inside my head, I always think something snarky and mean. I just never say it out loud, because as a bartender I’m supposed to be nice and whatever. I will now begin to post some things said to me, and instead of what I actually said to these crazy people, I’ll post what I was saying in my mind.

White man in full-on sari: So where are you going later tonight? What are you doing?

My head: I actually work here, so I’ll be here. Cleaning up after you and that blue vodka drink you just spilled. I’m working, I don’t tend to just stand behind bars wearing all black and a nametag for kicks.

Definite ex-frat guy: Will you do a shot with me? We should dance on the bar!

My head: This is not Coyote Ugly, there is a wedding going on behind you with roses and dresses and cheesy Olivia Newton-John music. You’re the only one who seems to think you’re at a Vegas dive bar -  but hey, classy look with your tie around your head. Go get yourself a bridesmaid.

Dude: I like Bud Light - what do you suggest I get to drink?

My head: ….. Bud Light. Dumb. 

Spiked hair: You lived in New York? I partied there!

My head: No way - you partied somewhere in the entire state of New York? We should just run away and elope right now, this is ridiculous!

I’ll be adding more of my snarky thoughts as more stupid people talk to me.

15 Aug 10

People can’t use words

I have a pet peeve. It annoys me when people use words incorrectly - mostly the word “literally.” I’m betting most people don’t really mean that their “faces are literally melting off because they’re so hot” or “I’m so stressed I’m literally gonna die.” It makes me cringe. 

My new favorite is people using the word “lucky.” We went to a casino this weekend, and the guy in charge of the roulette table (Roulette dealer? Milton from Office Space? Same deal). Anyway, he kept calling me lucky and saying that I brought the table luck… as I sit next to my friend up $110 and I just cashed out a dollar. So I am pretty sure he did not know what “lucky” means. So after I cashed out my single dollar, we headed over to the Blackjack table, where I put down my $15 minimum bet and actually got a 21. The guy to my left looked worried, and told me “I hope you’re not taking away my luck, girl.” I looked at him, and his 3 stacks of toppling chips, and again doubted he knew that he was comparing his probably 600 dollars in chips to my $15 that I just doubled. 

After we went back to roulette and I lost another 10 bucks, and the Rod Stewart impersonator took a break, Roulette-Milton told me “I hope you give these guys some luck like you had,” which I will apologize for, because then they all lost. 

Maybe I’d have better luck if the Rod Stewart impersonator didn’t look like some out-of-work 19-year-old American Idol runner-up. 

11 Aug 10
“Shouldn’t you be telling the neighbors you’re a sex offender?”“Shouldn’t you be panning for gold circa 1849?”“Wait, who’s gonna save that girl Brendan tied to the railroad tracks?”
-My Boys

“Shouldn’t you be telling the neighbors you’re a sex offender?”
“Shouldn’t you be panning for gold circa 1849?”
“Wait, who’s gonna save that girl Brendan tied to the railroad tracks?”

-My Boys