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Sunday, September 04, 2005

When it rains, they pour!

 
New Orleans bar keeps doors open through catastrophe

Johnny White's Sports Bar has been open for business this whole time, and charging the same prices as always.

I know it's just a bar, but that makes me happy to think about it...

Comments:
At least they're offering spirits for those who need to drown their tears.
 
I think that is great!
 
I think it is great too! Sometimes the simplist things make a difference.
 
heh, that's cool
 
That's grrreat!
 
A bar seemed like a godsend for me just today. My wife and I visited my sister and her husband and family today. They live in a relatively new home with a biking/walking trail built on an old railroad right-of-way nearby. I decided, in my regular street clothes, to walk the two-and-a-half miles to the old part of a nearby community which I remembered as a rural village from my boyhood days.

It was a pleasant walk, but I realized that for the trek back I needed water. I sauntered up and down the main street and found only one establishment open for business: a hole-in-the-wall bar.

"Do you have any bottled water I could buy?" I asked.

A waitress said, "No. But I can give you some water."

An employee from behind the bar said, "Wait! We do have some bottled water." He went into a backroom and emerged a few seconds later with an ice cold bottle of water.

"What do I owe you for that?"

"It's on the house," he told me.

Wow! That water was really necessary the last fifty yards or so of the return walk.

I'm glad the bar in New Orleans was able to help people get through a tough situation.
 
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