Tired woman sitting down on a happy hour bar stool: “You know you’re having a bad day when you just found out your lawyer’s been disbarred.”
Suit she’s talking to: “Yeah.”
Tired Woman: ” . . . but I got a good parking spot when I got back from the lawyer’s office.”
Suit: “So it’s a wash.”
Tired Woman: […]
The more you read about the people that San Francisco’s streets are named for, the more you realize the truth of this T Shirt. The downside of wearing a pithy truism on your shirt in Portuguese is, as my bartender said shaking her head, “I’m going to be explaining this all night.”
Your average Barbary Coast hoodlum aspired to graduate to Barbary Coast Ranger status, a Ranger being described by Herbert Asbury, in his book The Barbary Coast, as a man possessed of ” . . . notoriety and a long and sinful life as a man about the coast.” Who could not want that?
