Thursday, November 10, 2011

An Eastern European bartender's stories about stealing crap (2 of 3): Short-lived job.

The Eastern European bartender lady also was telling me about this bar she worked at for like 2 days. It was this dirty rundown bar run by this eccentric old (white) woman who was fat and would shuffle around the bar.

She said the very first day, right after the woman finished showing her all the beer prices, including all the cans for $1, the bar started getting flooded by all these nicely-dressed college age kids and their families.

It was the graduation exercises of some nearby university, and the old woman hadn't known it.

Soon, she shuffled over after helping people at table and was like, "No more one dollar, two dollars, two dollars, all the beer is two dollars!", and the Eastern European bartender said she had said that she felt weird asking the people who just paid one dollar to pay two dollars, but she was the boss, and she'd do it.

And, the old woman during all the madness would shuffle over the register every once in a while, take a handful of the bigger bills, and stuff them down her bra, since she didn't know the Eastern European bartender and didn't trust her around the cash drawer.

The next day, the Eastern European bartender showed up, and the old woman kept her around for an hour and then sent her home since she said it wasn't busy enough and she didn't want to pay her, she'd have her son bartend instead.

"And he was a weird forty year-old loner," the Eastern European bartender said. "So I say, 'Why did you hire me in the first place?', and I leave."

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