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Giants Super Bowl Win and the Bar's Darkest Characters
from Tough Love · #3
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4 minTim recalls the euphoric reaction at the bar when the Giants won the Super Bowl, contrasted with the dark backstories of regulars including a grieving grandfather and a wife who drugged her husband's beer nightly to get him home.
- 57:01Tim describes the bar as a dark place he wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
- 57:20A typical Friday night involved leaving work at five, smoking a joint in the car, grabbing drinks at Lisa's, then going to the helm in Freeport and getting hammered.
- 57:53One of the bartenders named Jack lived on a boat.
- 58:09Tim went to the bar almost every night after work, trying to be home by one or one-thirty.
- 58:44Tim's friends enabled his behavior by suggesting he'd write the great American novel about the place instead of telling him he needed help.
- 59:23Tim notes that not everything is always on his sleeve and his friends couldn't tell him what to do, so they just accepted his presence there without understanding why.
- 59:49Sally's husband Bobby, the glass guy, would never leave the bar, so she'd spit a pill into his beer every night to knock him out and drag him to the car.
- 1:00:17When Bobby almost choked to death one day and recovered, Sally looked more disappointed than he'd ever seen anyone look—like she'd missed an opportunity.