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Weekly Contest #297
The bartender is friendly but he isn’t your friend. He doesn’t care that you had to walk here in the rain from the motel. He doesn’t care that your boss drops notes about you into a file folder. He doesn’t care that the best meal you’ve eaten in three days is a pickled egg and a handful of peanuts. He doesn’t care about anything except the tips, and you don’t care about anything as long as he keeps pouring the bourbon.Bourbon is the opposite of caring.Tick-tock.How many is it now? You can’t remember. If the bartender left the empties, you'd ...
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