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How often do you go
to a bar where the bartender could confuse one one-legged man loitering
outside for another? It so happened that while walking up to Stanton
Public, a man sitting in a wheelchair with a leg brace on asked me
to push him slowly past the bar and then past some sort of shop next
to it. Now, I had just watched the guy move perfectly well down the
sidewalk in the chair, but now he needed help? He was a relatively
able-bodied looking fellow (aside from the knee brace), so this had
fishiness written all over it. So what did I do? Pretended not to
understand him, of course. Finally, out of frustration, he pshawed
me and wheeled himself past the shop, leering inside at somebody.
I then walked into the empty bar and recounted my story. The bartender
was like, "Oh, that was just Willie (or something). He's a 'Nam
vet, and is like the unofficial mayor of the neighborhood. We love
him." I started to realize that the guy I saw was about negative
ten during that conflict. Just then, as the bartender told his tale,
an older gentleman with one leg wheeled by. "There he is!"
he said. I guess he's going to have some competition in the one-legged
mayoral race next year. In any case, the bar was relatively empty,
the space small and cozy and the beer list on the decent side. It
was a very mellow after work joint with an outdoor space and hand
painted, funky murals. Their Website makes it look like a crazy, drunken
hipster party, which wasn't my experience at 7:00 on a Friday, but
parties tend to steer clear of me for some reason. Maybe it's because
I bring with me a high lame factor and an early-to-bed mentality.
[MF]
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