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I'm so stuffed - just been to Rusholme with Ned.... we walked there and back... don't know how far it was but.... felt like bloody miles on the way back...
Like drunk people when you're the sober one. You think they're dicks until you're one of the pissed people then it all makes sense.
In my bar-keeping days I was fortunate enough to work in places where they generally approved of one having a drink or two at work, simply because it allowed one to get onto a psychological plane where one roughly understood where the punters were coming from.
(Of course this wasn't in those vertical-binge-drinking hellholes that the industry, and indeed the general public, seem to be so keen on nowadays - these were places of individual character, which prized the unique nature of their ambience, rather than charging extra if you wanted a couple more ice cubes in your drink, as the big chains are wont to do.)
Then I had to spend a week on those antibiotics that act like Antabuse (Metronidazole)...
How bar staff cope these days, in places where they're not allowed a drink at all, I do not know - I found myself utterly loathing some of my best friends, people I would stick by through thick and thin, when it came to half-past-one in the morning and they were pissed and I wasn't
Drunk people are terribly hard to put up with unless you're one too. Still, there's an easy solution: have a drink!
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