rant · moment 3 of 22
Getting Let Into the Gin Mill
from Late For ElsaGate · #73
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2 minTim details finally getting into the bar, the bartender's hostile greeting, and reflects on how dive bar regulars like that never seem to die while good people do.
- 5:38Tim describes a drunk opening the door at a gin mill and nearly kicking him out.
- 5:54Distinction between dive bars and gin mills: a gin mill is just a room where people get fucked up.
- 6:28Tim lies and says he bought a house in the neighborhood to get in.
- 6:53Tim notes the old bartender isn't alive anymore, but the people he used to know still are.
- 7:08People Tim used to hang out with are living into their 80s, abusing the system and sucking it dry.