Why, thank’ee. (looks down, scuffs dirt with toe; then nods stoically, leads horse out of town toward sunset, quietly whistling high, lonesome tune).

Perhaps she did it because her family and friends aren’t supportive or loving and was fleeing them too.

As a person of color who has happily lived in various parts of Brooklyn and queens since childhood, please stfu. Let me guess. You’re white and not even a New Yorker but you’re here to talk about which neighborhoods suck and are being ruined by people like you moving in? Right, because you were here pre-gentrification…

Really. I just can’t get over these posts saying she ‘owes everyone.’ I just... Why?

gawd, thanks for the heads up. Also I am really sorry if anyone thinks I have something against Ohio! Cleveland is a badass American city!

On behalf of my paternal family that has been in Brooklyn for over 10 generations: That is ridiculous.

Well if your brother would like to come here and tell me how much Brooklyn sucks, I’m all ears. You run along now and go bicker pointlessly with someone else, confident in your deluded belief that I hate Ohio.

You’re delving into some weird fan fiction there, homie. You never answered my question: Have you ever even been to Brooklyn? Because generally adults do not say that a neighborhood “sucks” when they haven’t even been anywhere near it in their lives, which I suspect you haven’t.

It was meant more as “Do you even have a dog in this fight?” Not intended to malign Ohio. I can see how it could be read that way, and for that I apologize, but you clearly DON’T have a dog in this fight just as I suspected, so please go bicker needlessly with someone else.

I did it three times in college, ten years ago. No one cared much, though my mom was surprised when I came back from France and told me I had to let someone know when I left the country. I usually came back after a few weeks and I was bright enough to get away with it grades-wise.

You’re a mind reader now, eh? I have no reason to look down on people outside of the tristate. That’s what self-loathing transplants do.

I honestly don’t get why an adult isn’t allowed to break contact with whoever they want. Why is that anyone’s business?

How many of us did some version of this? I did— in the early 90s. No one much cared— and that was okay.

Agreed, here. I saw that suggestion and knew it wouldn’t be viable. Haven’t tended bar, I’ve done food service, though, and it gets too busy for stuff like that. Best suggestion I can think of is for women to finish as much of their drink as they can (don’t slam back a ton of alcohol in a hurry, just because your…

That’s not the advice I gave. Flying Squid suggested giving your drink to the bartender, I suggested scheduling bathroom breaks in between drinks.

No. People are saying that “ask your bartender to babysit your drink” is not effective or safe.

You’ve just had dozens of people tell you that first of all, it’s not safer, second, it’s not practical, legally for the license holder or the on-the-floor staff, and three, it’s part of a larger causality to find workarounds for not being raped.

Why are you so confrontational? Her doing that could open her up for liability.

As a bartender, I really don’t have time to watch your drink for you. I’m working and I am distracted, I can’t be a reliable drink babysitter for you.

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