My work day started out oh so grand. My MN Twins were up 1-0 in the 6th or 7th inning when I got into work at 4. Then it all started crumbling down.
The Twins imploded in the 9th inning, and eventually losing at home, 4-1.
True story: That's the most consecutive losses in the post season.....ever.
Meaning that the MN Twins have not won a single playoff game in their last 17 games. Most of those are attributed to the NY Yankees. But this was the Astros! All I gotta say is, "C'mon man!"
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So that was the start of the downfall.
The next 4 hours were slow. I didn't anticipate how much the debate would take away business. I prefer when we are busy, I lose track of time and POOF, it's time to be done. Slowness means the clock also ticks slow.
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But then! I was asked a handful of times if we were going to put the sound on the over head speaker for the debate? Absolutely not.
A few tables wanted subtitles. If you've never managed a bar before with LOTS of TV's, let me just say, it's abysmal. Most of the TV's are different, with different remotes, and their own quirks. Some will show subs and some won't.
So after being asked many a times, a semi-regular patron (with his semi-regular patron gf), asked, of course, "could you put on subtitles for the debate?"...
In sincerity, he asked very politely and couldn't have been nicer. I've never had a bad experience with him, or his gf....but I had been asked so many times already that I was kind of at my wits end....I tried to be funny, and I'm sure they liked the first part because it got a cheap laugh. But the second part he just stared into his phone and I just walked away.
"You don't need sub-titles. I'll just ad lib for you."
Her: "Okay, what is Biden saying?"
Me: "Something incoherent, he forgot where he is. Some mumbling and that's that."
Her: "haha, ok. Now do Trump."
Me: "I'm the greatest. The best. No one's been better."
crickets.
Know your audience.
#votenobody and let's work together to create consensual relationships.
Thanks for reading and Hive on.