While all my friends were off carving pumpkins yesterday, I went out for charred flesh at a local bar / burger joint. I couldn't help noticing that the bartender looked exactly like The Zohan; hair, beard and polyester shirt. When he wasn't poppin' the tops off of beer bottles he struck a well choreographed posed, tested to draw attention.....in a silent way. He would stand, arse against a fridge door, one foot raised up on the sink, arms crossed over his raised knee with his palms up. This stance was punctuated with the obligatory furrowed brow and distant stare. He was the epitome of cool.We all know the purpose of looking cool, so I won't mention it here. I can't tell you if his "well groomed" image was effective or not, because I didn't stick around long enough to watch the show. Don't know if I'd have had the stomach to stay that long. When I looked around the room, all I could see was a room full of blue haired bar flies, waiving a cigarette around in one hand and guzzling beer straight from the long neck..............maybe he likes the metaphor.
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Vivid description of "Bob the Bartender's" version of cool. He's ripe for a fling with a blue-haired, smoke-stenched bar fly. In my image of cool, his arse is leaning on a boulder, one hiking boot clad foot is raised up on a stump and with the wind in his hair, he gazes out over the mountain view as he swallows the filtered spring water from his Camelback bottle. Sigh. I think I'm in love.
I just thuoght of something..if Bar Guy were truly cool, his pose would not be well choreographed, but spontaneous!
P.S. I do enjoy a juicy "charred flesh" on a bun with a bottle of beer!
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