On Thu, 03 May 2007 15:28:16 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Vic Smith wrote:
On 3 May 2007 11:54:07 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

I usually figure a bar is unsafe if there's a fight in progress, I
see bulletholes in the windows, or when there's a mixture of HD's and
souped up rice-burners parked out front.

That'll work. I see twenty choppers parked outside and I pass on by
too. If hillbilly music is playing on the juke and it looks like the
30 customers have less than a total 120 teeth, or 50 eyes, I turn
right around and walk out.

--Vic


Too snobby. You'll never meet Shortwave Sports or Eisbocher that way.
They're known for hanging out with the lowlifes.

That reminds me. I've been in many bars in many cities and countries,
with sailor, marines, mill workers, steel framers in NYC, whores, acid
droppers, potheads, etc. Closed and crawled out of them.
Never saw a fight. Just close calls.
One day I fell asleep on the train coming home from work in downtown
Chicago and missed my stop. Ended up in Northbrook, home of doctors,
lawyers and stockbrokers.
The return train wouldn't be for an hour, and I spotted a bar across
the street from the station. Went in to have a beer or two. Real
toney place, full of the above mentioned sorts, wearing $2000 suits
and $1500 cashmere overcoats.
Didn't get half a beer down before a fight broke out. I was out of
there real quick before somebody pulled a piece.
Always resented not getting to finish my $3 bottle of beer.

--Vic