Patricia Grisafi
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“This was actually after I had clocked out and sat down at the other side of the bar for my shifty. An older couple I had served earlier had come back (bar was right next to a theater so we’d usually serve the same customers twice on show nights), and got dinner and were talking about what they’d ordered. She says she got the shrimp dish, and that apparently didn’t sit well with her husband as he just started UNLOADING on her in a way that had my coworker and I just shocked. Ordering the camerones el diablo was apparently enough for him to start griping about taking care of their granddaughter because his wife’s daughter was hooked on meth, and unable to do so herself. Long story short she says, ‘You know what, why don’t you walk back to the AirBnB and I’m going to drive home.’ He left, she paid, and told us this was their first night out in about a year and she had been thinking of divorcing him and that conversation made her mind up. Watched a marriage dissolve over dinner pretty much.” — big_papagale
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“Bartending on a slow night like 15 years ago. These 2 guys, one a regular, talking about the past and keeping their voices low. The regular says how he shot some guy on his street in like the 70s and just came back in the house and hid the gun in his recliner. Said when the cops were going door to door asking questions he just said he didn’t know or hear anything. I was always hearing crazy s**t cuz I just kept to myself unless a customer was looking to talk (and like a previous bartender stated we hear it all…yes we do know all about the drugs). I always wondered if that victim died in that incident, but just a few short years after I overheard that convo the regular died a painful death. Maybe deserved.” — Ok-Competition-3356
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“Former bartender. There were quite a few regulars I was fond of but there was one in particular that I couldn’t let my guard down around. He was off in some way and I immediately didn’t trust him. Slightly older than middle age. He introduces himself and I get his drink, as you do, and after a bit he starts on about his life. Wife left him near a decade ago with two little ones to raise on his own. Must have been rough, I say. Ahh, yeah, but I’ve worked hard and done right by my kids! Well cheers to that. Over time I hear him tell the same story the same way to several others, most who had heard it many times before. One evening he comes in later than usual. Hi howya doin, I say, though I can tell he is in a foul mood. No harm, happens to the best of us. He sits near enough to the well with another gent I didn’t see in there much. Other gent seemed to be having lady troubles and shifty regular had all the wrong answers. In a hushed and angry tone he said he took care of his own problem 10 years ago and made sure no one would ever find the b**ch.” — 28appleseeds
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“30 something girl telling a 50 something dude that she’ll blow him for a beer.” — ButASpeckofDust
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“I witnessed a complete relationship between two women over the course of one night. They met early in the night. They were clearly into each other. very flirty. The danced and drank the night way. They started making out and then disappeared for some time. Next time I saw them they were at each other’s throats. No clue what happened but it ended with one saying, ‘I never want to see you again.’ Then stormed out of the bar. After that night I never saw either of them again.” — NashHighwind
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“I occasionally work as a casino bartender and we will sometimes host the Marine Corps Ball. They get rowdy and have a good time, but it’s at the very end that you start seeing grown men cry. They start talking about their experiences during service with each other. The worst stories I ever overheard were from vets who served during the Vietnam war. It must have been terrible.” — MasterPh0
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“Guy by himself: ‘Should I make it a double?’ SAME Guy by himself: ‘Yeah I think you should.'” — ConnorMaCloud123
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