I remember, a couple of years before I was drinking age, I was sitting in a bar I'd snuck into- not even to drink, but to see a rock show I otherwise would not have been able to see due to my underage- while this thickly built. equally thick witted knuckledragging goon talked about how he liked being a bouncer, went on and on about "the brotherhood of the bouncer" and what they did to people who would dare fuck with the bouncer and its brotherhood.
I'm sure many doormen, given the opportunity to abuse the power of being a doorman, probably would. And I know for a fact it's no fun, and pretty humiliating, being cut off or denied entrance to your watering hole of choice by some burly, big bad ass bouncer.
However, I'm sure to many doormen, it's just a job, and a job that somebody has to do. They are hired by bar owners to protect their investment, to keep them from getting fined or having their license pulled because they've overserved someone.
So, if you get cut off, do you blame the doorman or the bar owner? I mean, hey, maybe the bar owner was hanging out with you a few minutes earlier- shook your hand, hugged you even, bought you a shot and contributed to your condition...
...and so then, in a situation like that, hell...there's no way that guy's ever gonna cut you off. So you drive home, pass out at the wheel, and plow into an overpass. Of course, it doesn't kill you, it only paralyzes you for the rest of your life. Medical bills up the ass, and of course you can't work to pay them off...
So yeah...thanks for the wishing of luck with all the shrugging and whatevers. I find it works alright. I mean, if some of you would like to give us a greater understanding of the concept of relativism then by all means...but, obviously, the last word means so much to some people that, as far as I'm concerned, they're welcome to it.
1968 Chicago Democratic Convention Pics
121You call me a hater like that's a bad thing
Ekkssvvppllott wrote:MayorofRockNRoll is apparently the poor man's thinking man.