Storytime about learning to bartendfrom @oldfashonedhussle

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When I first started bartending, there was a technique called double shaking. It's when you take two tins, shake them at the same time. It makes you more fast, more efficient behind the bar. My first bartending shift better, Friday night, I was getting murdered. Tickets were dragging. I, in fact, was not doing the bending. Bartender looked over at me and said, why the fuck are you moving so slow? Why aren't you double shaking? I said, my hands are too small. The tins are too big, and I'm not good at it. He looked at me and said, get good, or the next shift won't be your shift. My initial response was to throw the tier at the back of his fucking head and knock the glasses off his face, but then I remembered, one, rent, and two, something my mother said. If for every no and every difficult situation you gave up, the only direction you would end up in is nowhere. I stole two tins from the bar that night, went home, packed them with rice, and mimicked the motion of shaking day in, day out for an entire week. Shout out to my ex girlfriend who was helping me pick up rice grains off the floor for, like, a week. K? But needless to say, Friday night came, and they put me on service. And when my head better fender looked over at me and during the peak of service, I was in fact double checking.