“Sigrid, back in the days before you decided
on a career behind the stick...“
“Hold it right there, huh? Being
a bartender’s not a career, and I didn’t decide on it.”
“You didn’t?”
“Of course not. Nobody does, not
in New York. You decide on a career in
the arts, and you wait tables to make ends meet, and it begins to dawn on you
that bartenders make more money and don’t have to work as hard, plus they never
get yelled at for dropping a whole tray of pasta dishes full of people from
Ridgeway, New Jersey-“
“Did that happen to you?”
“No, but it could have.”
(from The Burglar On
The Prowl, by Lawrence Block)
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