Joe, I hope you’re ready with the Kleenex.”
Her real name is Brittney but I call her Joe. I started calling her Joe when she was tending bar here. I guess she liked it because when she bought the place she renamed it ‘Friends of Joe’. I suppose I should’ve called the new bartender Joe but it just didn’t seem right.
I come in every day at quarter to three. Usually there’s no one else in the place. And I say “set ‘em up joe” – like the old Sinatra song
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