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Speaker 1: If I can't drink here, neither will my friends. I'm

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Speaker 1: an alcoholic and I want to drink where I freaking

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Speaker 1: want it right, all right? This is a little over

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Speaker 1: a long one. Not sure if this is malicious compliance

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Speaker 1: or just unintended consequences, but I feel like it belongs here.

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Speaker 1: Back in my mid twenties, I used to wait tables

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Speaker 1: at this restaurant in my hometown. The money was good

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Speaker 1: and I got along with everyone there. I was the

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Speaker 1: talk of the town, most popular get in the ballroom.

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Speaker 1: I was like a Tibetan princess on New Year's Eve.

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Speaker 1: Exactly that, exactly that. Usually after our shift, a few

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Speaker 1: of the servers would sit at the bar and have

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Speaker 1: a few drinks wind down, you know, clown around as

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Speaker 1: bar waiters. Do you figure, why go to any other

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Speaker 1: bar when there's a bar right here? You know? Makes us.

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Speaker 1: We always tipped well and nothing was never and nothing

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Speaker 1: was ever an issue until one day when the owner

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Speaker 1: out of nowhere decided that employees weren't allowed to drink

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Speaker 1: at the bar anymore. Now, I completely understand this is

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Speaker 1: a normal rule in other bars, and the owner was

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Speaker 1: well within his rights, But I just didn't see where

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Speaker 1: this came from. I asked the manager if we didn't

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Speaker 1: thing wrong to warrant the rule change. He just said

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Speaker 1: the owner was being a dick ouch. He told me

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Speaker 1: he tried to talk him out of it because there

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Speaker 1: was no reason, but the owner just wanted to make

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Speaker 1: his presence. No lay down the lough, all right, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's within his rights to whatever. However, what he didn't

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Speaker 1: count on was Thursday nights and my friends. Back then,

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Speaker 1: my friends were in a punk band and had practice

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Speaker 1: every Thursday night. I would work every Thursday night and

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Speaker 1: they would meet up with me at my bar and

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Speaker 1: grab a drink with me after my shift, and usually

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Speaker 1: they'd bring their girlfriends, their girlfriend's friends, and whoever was

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Speaker 1: hanging around. My friends pretty much made that bars Thursday

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Speaker 1: night as busy as a Friday or a Saturday. And

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Speaker 1: when I tell you we could drink, oh, we could drink.

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Speaker 1: That was good, and of course everyone tipped generously. So

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Speaker 1: when I told them I wasn't allowed to drink at

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Speaker 1: my bar anymore after my shift, they were pissed as

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Speaker 1: I was. My buddy Bob was like, wait, so there's

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Speaker 1: no point to go to your bar, and then we

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Speaker 1: should all, just go to another bar after you're done

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Speaker 1: so you can join us. Yeah, it was the most logical.

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Speaker 1: There was another bar around the corner. So come Thursday,

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Speaker 1: round nine pm and finishing up my shift. As my

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Speaker 1: manager approaches me, he looks at the empty bar and says, hey, man,

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Speaker 1: are your friends on the way. There are usually three

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Speaker 1: drinks in by now. I reply, oh, actually, there are

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Speaker 1: usually four drinks in, and they're at the bar around

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Speaker 1: the corner. My manager was dumbfounded. Wait, what why aren't

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Speaker 1: they drinking here? I calmly tell him, while they want

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Speaker 1: to drink with me, and I'm not allowed to drink

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Speaker 1: here now, if you excuse me, there's a pint of

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Speaker 1: cane head high, my favorite beer, waiting for me around

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Speaker 1: the corner. I walked out and joined my friends for

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Speaker 1: a fun night. Now, I must admit I feel bad

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Speaker 1: for the bartender who usually works Thursday nights. She had

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Speaker 1: no part in the decision and her tips suffered because

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Speaker 1: of our move. But that's management, not me. After a

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Speaker 1: few weeks, the owner noticed the dip in sales on

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Speaker 1: Thursday nights and said we were allowed to drink at

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Speaker 1: the bar again. However, the damage was gone However, the

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Speaker 1: damage was done. We found out not only did the

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Speaker 1: bar around the corner have all the beers we usually drink,

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Speaker 1: but they were also much cheaper. We also struck up

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Speaker 1: a great friendship with the bartenders. We found our new

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Speaker 1: We found our new spot to hang out. There was

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Speaker 1: no reason to go back. Oh well, money clap about

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Speaker 1: ba