More about the pub

My perfect pub isn’t much different from yours Kelley. I would like to have all my favorite people close enough to drop by a lot. You really made me hungry with that menu and I agree with most of the food. I’d like my own easy chair maybe covered with dark old worn leather so it’s soft. Tables for setting things on but not strictly as sitting at but some of those too. I loved the way you covered the wine. Lighting only bright over the pool table, subdued everywhere else. A variety of finger snacks in bowls here and there. Oh yeah that reminds me, no one would make disparaging remarks about anyone else’s body size or make recommendations about how to make your life better based on their idea of what’s right and wrong. That’s not to say those things couldn’t be in a discussion you dig. Weirdly enough I can see a book case with books that can be read there in a few of these chairs with lamps by them. (My efficiency expert mind is busy devising a system for this book thing. Or do they call those people system analysts now?) Is my quarter up on the pool table yet?

Sly

Your quarter is certainly up but you will have to check with Nicola to get the game going. I will sit in one of your lovely leather chairs with my beer and coach from the sidelines.

Doesn’t seem weird at all to have books. It’ll be a literary pub! Every once in a while we will have live music or live stories or some such fun. Talented people, famous and not, will clamor to perform there just for the company and the beer. There will be many interesting conversations between people who are comfortable with ideas and feelings and differences. Imagine, a cozy room full of cool grown-ups. How much fun would that be?

There will be no bullshit in our pub about body size, skin color, education, whether English is your native language, or who your daddy is. People will speak ASL and English and Spanish and French and whatever else, and we will all find ways to make ourselves understood. People who do not play nicely will be given the opportunity to change their behavior (free training provided!), and if they don’t choose to change then they will be helped out the door by a big strong woman in big strong boots. The rest of us will smile and go back to our beer.