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NIGHTLIFE
by FFWD StaffQuestions:
1) What was your first experience with booze?
2) What is the oddest request you have received as a bartender?
3) When I drink alcohol, I drink:
4) As a bartender, what has been your closest brush with a celebrity?
5) What's your passion?
Robin, Dusty's Saloon
1) Losing an argument with a bottle of vodka
2) Breaking up a fight between a 260-pound lesbian and an ex-jockey
3) Beer and shooters
4) Doing shooters with Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) of M.A.S.H.
5) Travel and the outdoors
Jon, Mercury
1) Drinking Alta 3.9 in the back alley as a family function with my cousins
2) Being asked to work a Hutterite wedding
3) Stoli - any way, shape or form; and Strongbow
4) Getting Dave Semenko drunk and serving Mike Bell
5) Listening to music
Mark (aka Wighty), Schanks
1) When I was in Grade 8, paid $5 for a 40 of Crown Royal, and let's just say I can't remember the rest of that night, but Crown Royal still scares me to this day
2) I was asked to serve a group of ladies, except I was to wear nothing but a bow tie and cuffs!!
3) Canadian / Gin hounds
4) I served Wayne Gretzky, and he was enjoying himself greatly, and the tip was nice, too
5) Golf
Keri, Kensington Pub
1) I was 17 the first time I had a beer. It was Kokanee and I drank so much and got so sick I didn't drink beer again for about three years
2) A designated driver once asked me for a free beer - he corrected himself after and said pop, but his first response was obviously what he wanted
3) Cider
4) The lead singer from the Headstones (Hugh Dillon) was in and we had a lot of fun
5) My husband
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