Insight into the workings of a bar downtown.

The other week I was at the one bar downtown that has a lot of locals and a lot of cool tourists (!) that my one modern Czech literature professor friend had gotten me hooked on a while ago, and the one (older) (white) woman next to me at the bar turns out to have come into town for a conference every year for like 22 years, and to have always stopped by this same bar.

"You're late this year," the one bartender told her, when she surfaced this time.