Lol I can’t begin to imagine how stupid some Americans are but no one said we were crem of the crop but Europeans with their English accents well yeah their pretty cool. One English man. One french, and one almost-sure is American decides to come n chow down on some good ol American burgers. Well after long talks with the French and the English man about united states n how we are so profound of ketchup they ask for the check and let me just stop and say ketchup is amazing! Check please split on 3. No problem. It was a pleasure talking to u 3. I come back to pick up the receipts which were paid in credit cards btw. And I see the collection of coins all over the table. Oh thanks for the tip. As I laugh on the inside and say to myself hey money is money I look closer to the coins and realize it was in EUROS oh well thank you ! You bloody Englishman ! Although Eurodollar is worth more than dollars I don’t think ill be going to the money Exchange place anytime to collect my tip in American dollars!
Summer confuses me. I would think the nice weather would drive people out and head to drink. Unfortunately I had a real shitty morning shift. Tuesday morning is almost my favorite shift because lunch crowds are in and out. They want their food and they want their check except for today -__- working 6days in a row really kicks you in the butt but nothing I hate more than a dead bar and an empty money jar. The bar regulars comes in one by one. They really save the day for me they see how dead it is they tip drastically. One regular’s tab was 9 dollars and tipped me 22 dollars. Everyone that came in just tipped so well. I cant help but be thankful to the loyal customer. So no angry story today just thanks. Cheers to you.
Tumblr is like my way to remember memories of the good ol times at working in a bar. I’ve been busy, with a new job working a lot and so I haven’t blogged but I think this past week an incident occured that I must always remember. Mr 22 cents I’ve been working lunch shifts for a month now and I’m a lil upset that no one told me I can make the same amount of money working till 6pm and have a life instead of slaving till 3 in the morning. Anyways in my bar we have free WiFi Woohooo. It’s 11am a man walks in with his laptop and sits at the bar. ‘Club soda please’ no problem. I gave him a menu just incase. 30 minutes go by and awesome no orders and all of a sudden. ‘Can I get a cup of tea’ sure lipton it is. Im busy serving other awesome lunch patrons that I really don’t mind as long as you don’t bother me with stupid shit. 3 hours go by and I really can care less if his tab is only 4 dollars and 50 cents. So when he asks for a check and puts the money on the bar he stands there to wait for me. ‘Oh I’m sorry sir did u need any change’ he responds with ‘I understand the tax is 28 cents but 2.00 for coffee and 2 dollars for tea does not equal to 4. Dollars and 22CENTS.’ ARE YOU KIDDING? I said my sorries and he leaves. Good point jerkoff. U cheap Fuck. 22cents should of been the fee for using up a bar stool and sucking up free WiFi so u can get mad over 22cents. I should of gave him two cents back and said 20 cents is the fee for WiFi toodles.
1.30 on a Tuesday is my favorite time of day. Last call bitches. I know in matter of minutes after I clean up all the cups and bottles I will be out the door and in my bed. And ofcourse it can never be that easy. A man in suite walks in and sits down in the booth who couldn’t barely stand on his own two feet. Wobbling in his feet my boss gives him a cup of water. I mean a grown man being able to barely stand, still from his work clothes. Usually after 2 minutes I would lose it. I’m trying to clean sweep and he manages to get in my way. But its Christmas time and I don’t want to be in santas naughty list. He sits back at the bar mumbling things and puts his head down to sleep. I give him a bottle of water and it was time to call the cab. He tried to make conversations with people and it was just too funny to get mad at. Finally the cab comes we walk him into the cab gave him more water asked him where he lived and finally got him in. For a man who didnt drink at our bar your lucky I didn’t kick you in the curb, sometimes you just gota do the right thing.
Saturday nights are usually always good you get slammed at the end of the night well after thanksgiving and black Friday that is not the case. 15 hour shift is like ripping ur lashes slowly as you watch the time tick. 10 hours to the shift I get customers little by little. I’m not happy I’m not making money and last thing you wanna do is piss me off. I’m tired I’m sick and I don’t wanna put up with bullshit because there will be no bright side to it. A group of maybe 7 guys walk in two who I actually knew from high school 4 I had no idea who they were. I smile say hello give them a minute to decide what they want to order and I come back. ‘We’re still deciding’ cool I don’t care take ur time no ones here. 15 mins later I come back still don’t want anything. Usually. I flip the bird and say leave, ur wasting space but I knew some of them so I was kind enough to let it to. Another 10 mins I ask one guy who I didn’t know ‘can I get you something’ he replies ’ I just wanna go to biergarten’ I reply with a smile on my face ‘well sir there’s the door ’ I walk away still with no drink order. I decide not to even go back to their table bcoz its a complete waste of time. Another guy comes at bar and ask for drink specials ’ sorry no specials after 12’ walks away again. Comes back with the guys that I knew and their friends asks me what time we closed today then his friend asks me ’ can u give us free shots ill tip you good’ no more nice girl I reply with ’ dude I don’t even know you, who are you?’ You haven’t spent a penny, wasted my time and now u want free shit. There’s the door and goodbye, if you have to ask, then you sure as hell don’t deserve it. People with no money, stay home please. He prolly will never come back which makes me happier because ill be less headache for me. I would never go anywhere especially to a bar if I knew I would struggle with money. Better yet there’s a liquor store around the corner buy a bottle a jack and go to your couch. Toodles
I’m not racist or sexes. I just have a job to keep. Under age drinking at my bar is a big problem. And honestly I have zero tolerance for it. I can lose my job my license in jersey city and ill get fired. There’s a plate of food that needs to be in the table everynight and a school that won’t pay for itself. It’s not about just one underage kiddie that falls into the crack its the word of mouth that kills us. We have seen a Facebook page party saying to come to our bar because underage ppl will still be able drink no matter what. Guess what not in my shift. A young woman who I know for a fact is underage somehows gets a drink in her hand. Listen I’m not cruela de vil I’m not here to spoil ur fun Im nice but if you are a fellow bartender you should know better than that. Especially if you know that I know ur underage its real silly. Please don’t make me to be the bad person when I’m just doing my job. My bar gets raided by cops all the time they give us tickets for being over capacity when half of the bar is empty you think their guna let under age drinking go? Negatory. It’s nothing personal. It’s not your skin color, or your atitude, its your age babe.
Saturday lunch shift is the worse. No money, stare at yourself, watch the clock ticks. But sometimes ill take a shift with no chaos, hence its a waste of time but I don’t mind it sometimes. After getting out at 8 and not 3am what do you know restaurant are still open. Woohoo. Chillis it is. Hostess tells us there’s a 20 min wait. I take the pager and I sit. I’m not going to say that I’m biased because I work in a restaurant business and I get it but sometimes people are just too much. I take a seat, there was two male sitting next to me asking for the manager ” we’ve been sitting here for 20 minutes and the hostess keeps sitting other ppl before us” manager apologizes and seated them immediately as they were walking he throws the pager between the two hostess. I personally would of kicked them out for thinking the hostess are trying to screw them over for a table then throwing a pager ? Really ? Ofcourse nothing was said because ’ customers are always right ’ but sometimes its just not right. I’m sure the manager said something to the hostess and plus they got treated badly. Being at your service doesn’t give you the Que to treat people like their below you. Ppl make me sick.
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Friday nights are usually great. money wise and annoying at the same time. It comes with the job so I can’t complain. What I don’t get is how people think that it is necessary to be completely obnoxious. We have 1.50 beer on happy hour 7 different beer on tap. I pour maybe a close to 100 cups of beer everytime I work. Hence the fact that work about four times a week since I was 18 I’m guna go ahead and assume I can pour a draft beer. Last Friday being completely packed loud music I try my best to not let people wait on their drinks especially if its only 2 draft beers their ordering. “Let me get a yuengling and Sam Adams” no problem. Two beers nine dollars. He stares at his beer, leans over the bar, pours half of the beer on the drain HIMSELF and asks ” can you fill this up there’s too much foam” with my boss next to me I calmly declined “sir you poured half of your beer urself ill take that nine dollars now ” it might sound like a jerk move but really? I don’t have time to play these games I have people waiting and money to make. So go to the liquor store go home. Play loud music and pour ur own beer thanks.
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