THE DRUNKARD

Barry is my CO-worker, who loves to get drunk every night. After work he goes to a bar as he excused himself "socializing". The first thing he does, when he gets in the bar, keeping his head high and confident greets everybody, nodding to those who are across the bar, or waving to them.

He always order salad with scotch on the rocks. Sitting on the bar stool and smiling at the hostess, quietly sips his scotch. In this kind of occasions, he likes to talk about his girlfriends,his job and his hobbies.

Around 8 o'clock, he will start to raise his voice and curse about somebody, who made him angry. This time the bartender will call the Barry's wife and tell her it's time to get her husband.

When his wife arrives at the bar , he starts to sing "here comes the bride." Everybody around him will follow with the rhythm. Then he will get back to cursing. His wife will pat his hair in a backward motion and give him a kiss. This routine amazingly calms him down. It is like every other day thing. So the customers of the bar are used to this situation. He tries to kneel down and address his wife as princess. He will say " Your highness , your unfaithful slave broke his promise again and he is ready for his punishment.

Gina, his wife will help him to sit back on the stool and rub his face with both hands. Takes off his tie and unbutton his shirt ,she put the tie in her bag and wink at the hostess as usual. The hostess scribbled on the pad, tore one paper ,laid it on a silver tray and pushed it to Barry's wife. Barry forbids his wife and at the same time reached to his wallet. His wife helped him taking the money out of his wallet and paid the bill leaving a fat tip for the loyal hostess.

By the time they left the bar Barry didn't bother to say goodnight. His wife on his behalf says thank you. He looked pretty tired stepping here and there , making a terrible x , while walking on the street. The people at the bar started to talk about him. Life goes on!!