Bar Louie

I have been many things in my life: landscaper,plumbers assistant construction worker, janitor, shipping clerk, came from a hard drinking town, had a lot of friends who were marines, cousins who are police:

But the truth is no one drinks like a teacher.
No One.

I am not necessarily proud of this fact, but there are certain groups of professions who are more directly affected by the American experiment, and we end up being known by all bartenders and we don't even have to ask for drinks. They already know.

Bar Louie is the bar where most south shore and grand blvd teachers go, for lack of better options than anything. I used to love getting drunk there and taking a long walk on Lake Michigan to sober up.

Then there is Tumans, the bar next to my apartment. But that can get a bit scary because in between my apartment and the bar is a funeral home. And if you go to Tumans and because you love the students (sarcastically or worse, you really do love the students) and you love them so much that you are pointing to your empty glass, you have to walk by that funeral home and hear it talk back to you and let you know that the last glass you had might not have been a good idea.

Alcohol erodes us.