Baby's First (Co-)Bartending.

[realmrsreynolds]

"...I ain't sure that I know what I'm doin' here, Bar

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[spandexed_edie]

A woman sits down, with hair that's much more red than brown.

"Can I get a strawberry daiquiri?"

[realmrsreynolds]

Sallie knows strawberries. She nods to the new customer.

The whole daiquiri thing is new, though.

"Ellen?"

Busy with a barkey, Ellen points to a bottle of nondescript mix in the corner; Sallie figures out the rest from there.

"Forgive me, I'm a bit new."

[spandexed_edie]

She watches slowly, smiling. "It's no problem. Take all the time you need."

She crosses her legs. "I'm Edie."

[realmrsreynolds]

"Sallie Reynolds." Even her own name is offered with a distraction to it - she's concentrating on making it pretty.

Ellen is politely not rolling her eyes.

Sallie retrieves a straw and declares the drink made, trying to not look to proud of herself as she hands it over.

"You new?"

[spandexed_edie]

"It's a pleasure."

Edie grins at the drink. She's a bartender on occasion back home, and has been here quite a bit.

"That's a good looking drink," she says before taking a sip, "Mmm, even better than it looks."

Yeah, she understands being proud of one's work.

"To somethings, and not to others, as I'm sure you can understand."

[realmrsreynolds]

Hard not to smile at that. Sallie didn't mess it up her first drink out!

She leans on the bar, balancing her chin in her palm and her elbow on the lacquered wood. "Do I look so wizened?"

[spandexed_edie]

She takes another sip.

"No, you look like a woman that's had a full and robust life. I've had the same."

She tucks her hair behind her ears.

[realmrsreynolds]

"You're awful young for that aren't you?"

[spandexed_edie]

Edie chuckles, "I'm older than I look, dear heart."

[realmrsreynolds]

"Now you're goin' to make me feel bad - do I even want to know?"

She asked for not-blood, so vampire it out. Right?

[spandexed_edie]

"Radiation poisoning a long time ago. Fell in love, pissed people off...the usual."

She chuckles. "If you see a man, striped like Neapolitan ice cream, that's my Tony."

[realmrsreynolds]

"...Fair enough."

In that way where Sallie so doesn't get it.

"Never seen a striped man in here as yet, but I'm sure with me working here now I'll come across 'im."

[spandexed_edie]

She nods, "Probably so. We've been taking an extended vacation here...been here nearly two months."

She leans against her arm.

"So you said you're working here?"

[realmrsreynolds]

"New co-Barman, with Mike?"

After a second, "He's the loud one."

[spandexed_edie]

She laughs, "I haven't met him yet, but it seems likely I will, at some point."

She takes another sip.

"I'm trying to get on the bartending staff. I like 'tending."

Never hurts to put a word in, does it?

[realmrsreynolds]

Sallie stops for a moment.

"Do I have the power to hire folk now? Shit, I have to ask."