[javadog]

I have a well stocked bar in my house. The benefits are that it’s vastly cheaper than drinking outside the home, I can’t drink and drive here and I make better drinks than most of the bartenders in bars. I am often amazed at how poor some mixed drinks can be, when you buy them in a bar. More than once, I have given bartenders lessons in how to mix better drinks, even simple things like a margarita.

That said, I used to attend a PCA breakfast every Saturday at a very upscale outdoor shopping area in Tulsa. I would often hang around for hours, shooting the **** with one friend or another, until 11 o’clock rolled around, at which point a nice restaurant there opened up for lunch business. I knew a couple guys that ate lunch there every Saturday, at 11 o’clock on the dot, and I would sometimes join them for a drink. Other times, I might head to their bar with a friend of mine, as I knew the bartender there and the restaurant was full of very hot, very rich women. Even the staff was smoking hot, especially the woman that ran the front of the house. That the food was also great and the bartender very talented were just icing on the cake. I took those opportunities to have the bartender make me something I had never had, it was a good way to kick back for an hour or two.