CHATTING WITH THE BARTENDER
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I was watching the Los Angeles Angels play on the TV overhead when Bart sat down next to me at the bar. The bartender chatted with him for a while about the same old, same old. How are you? How was your week? She introduced him to me and then we chatted about the same old, same old. Eventually, we both had a few more drinks and Bart mentioned to me that he’d been married before. I asked about it and he said he was down in Mexico and watched some old play he couldn’t even understand in Spanish starring a donkey. Afterwards, he married the woman who owned the donkey. He got so drunk that night he blacked out and doesn’t remember what happened. He woke up in his buddy’s car as it was passing back into America. According to him, he never heard from his wife again and since he didn’t have a marriage certificate or anything so he basically forgot about her. I asked him if he was kidding and he kept insisting he wasn’t. I never believed him. Then one week as I was walking across the street into the bar, I saw Bart outside arguing with some Mexican woman. I looked twice because the woman was leading a donkey around by a rope. It had all been true.