Dried Beef...

[lush]

I once worked in a most seedy bar, hey it paid the bills, I was starting out as a bartender and I needed to move up in the world..and I met many characters..

Many many years later I was tending bar at a rather upscale place, very hoity toity..but they were good to me...and he walks in... I knew him straightaway, he was trouble and I'd kicked him out many times before in another world..

He sits, I greet him with my friendly "Hi handsome, what are you having?". It's a Yuengling Lager draft.. I pour it, he seems OK. I keep in my head that last I knew he was not to drink, but thanks to the laws I could no discriminate, I pretty well had to serve him (and I hate to mention, this bar was owned by one ethnicity and they were very biased..me being a mutt always played devil's advocate). I could only refuse service for intoxication, of which he was showing no signs...and this bar being the "other side of the tracks" I treaded very cautiously..

I watch him as he converses with my regulars.. He asks me for a phone.. I direct him to the courtesy phone...


a bit later the cops show up, I find out that not only was he offering some dried beef substance to my regulars, but he was begging for a place to sleep getting mad when they directed him to a shelter and that they were creeped out, but too nice to tell me he had to go..when that failed he called the cops...on himself...


They showed up, I told them that last I knew he wasn't to drink, but he did have a beer

[Iris Kojiro]

You did well. Had I been in that same situation, I probably would have said or done something wrong as I thought about my past run-ins with that particular character.

Then again, I say that and realize I've had to deal with similar situations with previously out of control customers and maintain a proper "work face" at a later time when dealing with those same people.

[lush]

You did well. Had I been in that same situation, I probably would have said or done something wrong as I thought about my past run-ins with that particular character.

Then again, I say that and realize I've had to deal with similar situations with previously out of control customers and maintain a proper "work face" at a later time when dealing with those same people.

there were bars I worked at long after that I couldn't let it go, I will say this (original meeting) was the worst bar I'd ever worked at and as far as seedy...yeah they went below...I still sport a scar on my arm from them and the looking over my shoulder because one bartender and I (I was supposedly the manager) couldn't agree who was psycho and who wasn't and that she wanted the single dollar a strung out nut would pay her...and I still look for the regular that stopped him from destroying me one night...(I seriously see a shorter then me black bald man named Tommy and kind of speed up to see if it's him.. we joked for a bit after that on December 31, 2010 we'd meet up again and I'd somehow pay him back for my life, and for knocking the door down).

I do know that some day we will cross paths and I'll be able to do something...

From the original bar, I still have flashbacks of two people that the police could not find/arrest, Dried Beef was harmless comparatively..

I am sadly glad for the friend that got me out of the bar business

[AnaKhouri]

Was he actually offering them dried beef, like jerky or something? Or is this some term for an illegal substance of which I am unaware?