Ruby considered showing the brunette a fun trick one could perform with a napkin (such useful things), but she managed to take the glass and pivot away before the look on her face revealed itself. The bartender wasn't the type to admit fault, or acknowledge when a customer had made a reasonable request. After several years in the service industry, she had learned that silent, speedy acquiescence was a decent substitute.
In her personal life, she walked a fine line between not giving a fuck enough to make a complaint and making one so egregious that employees contemplated suicide afterward. At least this ritzy chick had balls enough to voice an objection, when many women would shrivel up and just take it, whatever it may be, in weak-willed misery. Thus Ruby's temporary miff dissolved.
"Neither am I," she said, pulling a fresh glass and giving the other half of the lemon a healthy squeeze. "But you know what? Sweet is overrated." Orange liqueur and brandy combined with the citrus and she poured the spirits again. "No charge."
She tipped her head back and drank the rejected cocktail in three swallows.
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Date: 2016-02-14 05:15 am (UTC)Ruby considered showing the brunette a fun trick one could perform with a napkin (such useful things), but she managed to take the glass and pivot away before the look on her face revealed itself. The bartender wasn't the type to admit fault, or acknowledge when a customer had made a reasonable request. After several years in the service industry, she had learned that silent, speedy acquiescence was a decent substitute.
In her personal life, she walked a fine line between not giving a fuck enough to make a complaint and making one so egregious that employees contemplated suicide afterward. At least this ritzy chick had balls enough to voice an objection, when many women would shrivel up and just take it, whatever it may be, in weak-willed misery. Thus Ruby's temporary miff dissolved.
"Neither am I," she said, pulling a fresh glass and giving the other half of the lemon a healthy squeeze. "But you know what? Sweet is overrated." Orange liqueur and brandy combined with the citrus and she poured the spirits again. "No charge."
She tipped her head back and drank the rejected cocktail in three swallows.