Stories from 35 years (and counting) as a bartender in New York City— a prime location to view a constantly changing city, and the hilarity and heartbreak of... well, us.
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Mr. Crankypants
People are not generally grouchy at McManus, except for Bill, a regular who is always the first to arrive when I work on Fridays. Sometimes he’s impatiently waiting as I unlock the door, and I think it’s mostly because he wants to be sure t...
‘Pretty slim pickings in the joy department’
Struggling to figure out what to write for this week’s LBB, I went up to the attic in search of old journals from the 1990s, thinking something might jog memories of long-forgotten McManus stories. I found a stack and settled in to read....
You will know (and loathe) them by their drink order
Hubris got me a couple of weeks ago. We’re usually slammed on Saturdays; Mary and I work 12-7pm, and Ben comes in for the swing shift from 4-10pm. Usually business in the summer slows down a bit, so Ben texted that last Saturday in July to...
The perils of peaking too soon
“I was a child star—I sang on Romper Room when I was three,” Ruth Ann said, “but then I got the mumps and had to quit.”
She paused. “And it’s been downhill ever since.”
I’m always happy to see Ruth Ann and Bobby roll in to play the jukeb...
'Beefeater martini, dry as the Sahara Desert
Robert makes me laugh. He’s a regular and a lifelong New Yorker—his accent giving that away even before he told me his father used to bring him to McManus when he was a child. I’m assuming, given Robert’s (ahem) vast experience that this wa...
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