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" Donal Brophy, 32, Co-Owner and BartenderMary Queen of Scots New York City I came here from Dublin to go to acting school, back in 2001. I got immersed in the downtown theater nightlife scene. I thought, I&amp;#039;ll put myself through acting school with bartending. I spent four years after that doing downtown Off-Broadway theater, independent films, stuff like that \u2014 but all the while bartending. It&amp;#039;s all show business. People open up behind the bar. Especially on winter nights, when it&amp;#039;s just you and somebody else. You&amp;#039;re going to hear some pretty interesting stuff. The thing about New York is you get a lot of visitors; you get a lot of people who just moved here and don&amp;#039;t know a lot of people. They&amp;#039;ll find a local bar and come in. They&amp;#039;ll sometimes want to talk to somebody, just because they haven&amp;#039;t spoken to anybody all day. I would think that a good bartender would know when to shut up. You&amp;#039;re there to listen to people&amp;#039;s woes and listen to people&amp;#039;s joys. I just ham it up, in general. A bit of a high kick here and there doesn&amp;#039;t hurt. Sometimes when you&amp;#039;re feeding people alcohol all night, and they&amp;#039;re sitting there, looking at you work \u2014 sometimes they can get stars in their eyes. Sometimes they think you&amp;#039;re something that you&amp;#039;re not. And sometimes you have to be like, Okay, time to go. There&amp;#039;s definitely a type \u2014 a sad drunk and a happy drunk. It can be a little tragic sometimes when you see people that are not good drunks. You see them getting surlier and surlier. I&amp;#039;ve seen quite a few bar fights. Unfortunately, some people can&amp;#039;t really handle their booze. I&amp;#039;ve had to break up a few. And it&amp;#039;s always ugly when you see somebody get into a bar fight because it changes the energy of the whole night then. It&amp;#039;s pretty traumatic. The worst bar etiquette? Probably hustling girls that are trying to just enjoy themselves and have a night out with their friend. It&amp;#039;s so annoying. Nothing pisses me off more. That&amp;#039;s gotten me into more altercations with people than anything else, I think. Just telling guys to buzz off. At the bar, you see a lot of blind dates, which are kind of sweet and semi-awkward at the same time. You can tell right away as soon as you see the guy or the girl walking through the door. You&amp;#039;re like, Oh, that&amp;#039;s not a good match. Or, That&amp;#039;s a good match. It&amp;#039;s pretty funny. I&amp;#039;ve seen a couple of wedding proposals, actually. You see a lot. You see it all. Locking up at night, walking home, getting a cab home, you also see stuff. You definitely get to see the underbelly of the city a little bit. PLUS: Read More Bartender Wisdom on Eat Like a Man &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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