Tales from The Bar

Episode 1: The Double Shift with the Surprise Cameo

I have a lot of stories from my years as a bartender. This is one of them.

7:00am. Wake up with greasy guts and a headache trying to burst its seams. I’ll figure out what I did last night later, but right now it’s time to get ready for work. I pop a prescription migraine pill; hangovers feel close enough to migraines, and I won’t learn the dangers of doing this until much later.

“You’re experiencing rebound headaches. It’s a withdrawal symptom.”

“What do I do now?”

“You can’t take those pills so often. I’m not sure how you ever got a prescription for so many at a time in the first place.”