Bar

[j4]

Working behind the bar tonight, in some ways it felt like I'd never been away. All the same people, drinking the same drinks, cracking the same jokes. Busy night, but not too busy for a rusty barmaid. I'd forgotten how sticky I felt by the end, though. And how much people comment on bits of my body (somebody else's body, that girl's body). "You shouldn't go sleeveless, love, it doesn't suit you." You know what? I don't give a toss. It's hot behind the bar. If I wore long sleeves, I would sweat like a pig. And it's the same fucking beer even if the woman who serves it to you is ugly, isn't it.

20 quid cash will come in handy though. Particularly since I left my wallet (and, incidentally, house keys) in work. (STUPID.)

Not sure I can cope with parties tomorrow. Or in fact getting out of bed. Except that I have to work at Oxfam tomorrow. Bed after that, I think.

Comments

[kaet.livejournal.com]

I thought it was amusing a couple of Thursdays ago when the noisy bar suddenly became completely quiet and Jethro happened to be standing behind me at exactly the moment I happened to be saying it seems that the most heinous crime, in their eyes, is the mocking of an American penis. It's a good job I know 'em all, :). I was having a quiet conversation with ewx which was actually mainly about the influence of art on society, honest, and I swear there were at least half a dozen conversations going on when we started, :).

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

It's odd that there seem to be two sorts of groups-going-quiet; where everyone goes completely quiet, and where everyone goes completely quiet apart from one person saying something which sounds dodgy out of context[1]. I don't know whether that's because people don't register only one person saying My aunt came back from Bognor the other week as a silence, or whether they consciously don't start speaking again after overhearing the start of a phrase that might be interesting....

[1] Such as I think it's something to do with S and M (which wouldn't raise many eyebrows amongst the livejournal crowd, but this was at work)