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Little flip of the tin, happy tin, happy drink. Stir it a little bit, throw on some champagne.
Nice. Put a cherry on that, little lemon action. When you talk about what's the funniest thing
that you've encountered behind the bar or funny things that have happened, bartenders
are going to laugh every single day because it doesn't matter. I mean you want to keep
your people safe but when people get a little intoxicated they act a little goofy. You get
the machismo, the crazy drunk roll, there's beer goggles involved. There's all kinds of
things. But a couple of things that just stand out to me, two different spectrums. You get
the guy who wants to be the man and tries to be all cool and stuff. But you've heard
of people drinking out of, drinking champagne out of high heels or shoes or whatever. I
was working in the bar district of New York and this man came in and he was really trying
to impress a lady and I think he had to have been cocktailed. He insisted that I pour a
drink in this woman's shoe. The woman puts her shoe on the bar and it happens to be like
a boot heel. It's not even a high heel or whatever. There's got to be some funk in that
shoe and he made me make a gin and tonic. Now I'm not sure if the juniper in the gin
killed it but you know we'll never know. I make at least three gin and tonics for this
gentleman and he tipped well so I did it, but you know? What of the other funny things,
I was working a Paul Oakenfold rave at a night club and it was one of those (makes beating
noise) kind of nights and so there were, at the time it was a big fad to put the glow
in the dark like fishing lores or whatever your mouth and everybody wanted to glow and
stuff. These two little girls came up and they were blonde haired blue eyes and they
go "yeah we're just having a good time" ordering drinks from me. So I'm making their cocktails
and one of them starts to freak out and they look at me and they go "um what do we do if,
what do we do if I swallowed the glow and dark thing?" I'm like " I'm a bartender I
don't know". I'm like " did you bite it, did it say nontoxic?". People just act really
really goofy when they are out and about. You see people at their best and you see people
at their worst and either way it can be very very entertaining.