The Late Shift
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The Late Shift
Don't know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone else on here work nights? I always feel like an outcast rolling into the local BP and buying a 12 of Bud, especially when they don't have the coolers open yet. Just wondering if anyone has run into this. I always feel like I have to explain "this is like 6pm for me...ha ha ha". I always feel like a dick.
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I work until 1am now, not too late a finish but it does eat into my valuable pub time. I get an hour break and spend it in the local and come back reeking of smoke. I go for the 'very professional' look :D
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I worked overnights for years. Before that I hung out with people who did. I always figured the liquor stores open up eight in the morning for a reason. Same with the bars hell me and a buddy of mine used to head down to the Oleander every Saturday at 7am. They'd let us in the back door and serve us an hour before they opened even though they ccouldn't sell us drinks. Then somewhere around mid-afternoon it was home to bed. Unless the nextday was a day off then it could be nice chance to do and open to close shift on the barstool, at least take a run at it.
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I've been working nights for about a year now, luckily I have a liquor store down the road from me that opens at 6am, which is when you can legally sell here (KY). I've become a familiar face to the woman working the counter on those hazy mornings. There's also a bar on the way home that opens at 6am. Its a good feeling being the only one drinking at the bar with the jukebox going at 6am.
I've taken a fondness towards getting nice and hammered when I get off, for me, this is my evening. Get off, drunk myself up real good, then sleep around noon. Plus, drunk dialing people at 10am is incredibly fun.
I've taken a fondness towards getting nice and hammered when I get off, for me, this is my evening. Get off, drunk myself up real good, then sleep around noon. Plus, drunk dialing people at 10am is incredibly fun.
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Re: The Late Shift
I don't know why you "feel like a dicK". Years ago I worked overnight at a machine shop and I used to love buying beer in the morning when I got off work. I thoroughly enjoyed standing in line at the local 7-11 at 7:15 am. The place would be packed with people in shirts and ties buying coffee and donuts. I'd be standing in line all covered in grease holding a 12 pack and a few chili cheese dogs. The looks I got and the conversations I held were priceless. Those were the good ol' days.timds wrote:Don't know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone else on here work nights? I always feel like an outcast rolling into the local BP and buying a 12 of Bud, especially when they don't have the coolers open yet. Just wondering if anyone has run into this. I always feel like I have to explain "this is like 6pm for me...ha ha ha". I always feel like a dick.
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You're right, I shouldn't feel like a dick. The others wish they were buying beer and going home to sleep. They'll be doing the same thing 12 hours later! F 'em.Thu Jones wrote:I don't know why you "feel like a dicK". Years ago I worked overnight at a machine shop and I used to love buying beer in the morning when I got off work. I thoroughly enjoyed standing in line at the local 7-11 at 7:15 am. The place would be packed with people in shirts and ties buying coffee and donuts. I'd be standing in line all covered in grease holding a 12 pack and a few chili cheese dogs. The looks I got and the conversations I held were priceless. Those were the good ol' days.timds wrote:Don't know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone else on here work nights? I always feel like an outcast rolling into the local BP and buying a 12 of Bud, especially when they don't have the coolers open yet. Just wondering if anyone has run into this. I always feel like I have to explain "this is like 6pm for me...ha ha ha". I always feel like a dick.
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fuck,. I tjhought I had everybodybeat, working graves, tracking two serial killers, - well now, one serial killer since we got the toher guys. even wiht alol the plainclothes/undercover details at strip clubs where we are actually allowed five drinks on shift, this mofo still has us beat, dammit, well - yeah, it's Oggarm, I shoukda known beytter. I don even remember what thisb thread was about. some thoing like, Working nights and drinkin', fuck, cvount me in.Oggar wrote:I worked overnights for years. Before that I hung out with people who did. I always figured the liquor stores open up eight in the morning for a reason. Same with the bars hell me and a buddy of mine used to head down to the Oleander every Saturday at 7am. They'd let us in the back door and serve us an hour before they opened even though they ccouldn't sell us drinks. Then somewhere around mid-afternoon it was home to bed. Unless the nextday was a day off then it could be nice chance to do and open to close shift on the barstool, at least take a run at it.
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summer times i work night shift as a doorman for an apartment building in manhattan....Its totally easy work..so thats cool....
On the way home--30 kin commuteer train, where a lot of people go to work..t I do my best to look like ...hmmm whats the word.....'scummy'...dirty'.....any way not like the suits that i have to ride the train home with as they are all going to work.......i wear my dirty fav t-shirt, shorts, flipp flopps (only time i wear flip flops in public) and i usally drink, guzzle.. 1-2 tall boys during the 30 min ride at 7:30 am....
everyone else is in suits, ties...sipping fancy coffey....
and i love it
On the way home--30 kin commuteer train, where a lot of people go to work..t I do my best to look like ...hmmm whats the word.....'scummy'...dirty'.....any way not like the suits that i have to ride the train home with as they are all going to work.......i wear my dirty fav t-shirt, shorts, flipp flopps (only time i wear flip flops in public) and i usally drink, guzzle.. 1-2 tall boys during the 30 min ride at 7:30 am....
everyone else is in suits, ties...sipping fancy coffey....
and i love it
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You wear flip flops on an NYC syubway train?? yopu batshit crazy or what? I grwew up riding those fuckers, fuck that shiot.fearless jim wrote:summer times i work night shift as a doorman for an apartment building in manhattan....Its totally easy work..so thats cool....
On the way home--30 kin commuteer train, where a lot of people go to work..t I do my best to look like ...hmmm whats the word.....'scummy'...dirty'.....any way not like the suits that i have to ride the train home with as they are all going to work.......i wear my dirty fav t-shirt, shorts, flipp flopps (only time i wear flip flops in public) and i usally drink, guzzle.. 1-2 tall boys during the 30 min ride at 7:30 am....
everyone else is in suits, ties...sipping fancy coffey....
and i love it
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Re: The Late Shift
Being on the devensive is the wrong way to go when buying morning beer. You need to go rockstar on people. One of my fonder memories is of taking this girl I was seeing at the time into a local gas station at 6 in the morning, and buying every bottle of pink champagne they had (both of 'em!). We went in like we owned the place, and it was soooo obvious the donut and coffee crowd had no idea how to handle the situation. I loved every minute of it.timds wrote:Don't know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone else on here work nights? I always feel like an outcast rolling into the local BP and buying a 12 of Bud, especially when they don't have the coolers open yet. Just wondering if anyone has run into this. I always feel like I have to explain "this is like 6pm for me...ha ha ha". I always feel like a dick.
But, now I work second shift, and I consider it an early morning if I'm out of bed before noon.
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