The Bartender Game

jean compton
3 min readDec 23, 2021
Photo: Louis Hansel/Unsplash

My favorite bartender, let’s call her Chloe, recently left her bartending job at our favorite restaurant. I miss her. She always seemed like a hard worker. On busy nights, she would be running around like crazy. She was efficient, personable, made a damn good, mixed drink and didn’t take any shit.

She even got on one of the regulars for continuously buying all of his friends at the bar their drinks. An old timer, he never tipped…

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jean compton

I have an eye for the artful and influence. Essays, Memoir and Musings on this and that. Currently working on a memoir about my life as a dancer in 80's NYC