happy hour!

[snap_time]

It's been a while. In the bar, anyway; for Larry, it's only been a couple of days since he was last in here.
(A couple of very, very long days, since he's been waiting to hear back about his gadget sales pitch - but he keeps reminding himself that probably hasn't even gotten to where it's going yet

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[stalinova_k]

So a Soviet stereotype walks up to a bar...

"You have cherry vodka?" Kremlina asks, after a brief glance at the board.

[snap_time]

"...If it's not back here, I can at least do vodka and grenadine."
It's probably not the same exact thing, but it'd be closer than regular vodka.
"Let me check."

[stalinova_k]

"Thank you," she says, and takes a seat at the bar. "If nothing else, regular with a cherry in it would do."

[snap_time]

"Considering they have more kinds of alcohol here than I've seen anywhere else, and I worked in a few very well-stocked bars... aha!"
And Larry emerges triumphant, with a bottle of cherry vodka. "Found some. How much do you want?"

[stalinova_k]

"A lot," she says. "But I'll start with one. It's going to be a long night."

She just has a feeling about that. Something in the air, maybe.

[snap_time]

If only Larry's 'I have a bad feeling about this' radar were so good. (But then, he wouldn't get his second part of canon.)
"All right. I'll keep the bottle on hand, and you say the word when you want a refill."
He's a pretty easy-going bartender, so long as people aren't stinking drunk when they get to him.

[stalinova_k]

"Thank you," she says, leaning against the bar.

And after a moment, "You're American, aren't you?"

[snap_time]

"Yeah. New York. I'm... guessing you're not?"
Not originally, anyway.

[stalinova_k]

"No," she says. "Well... I'm not from there, but I live there now, in Skyline City. But my boyfriend is American, and I don't understand how he thinks."

These are the kinds of problems people discuss with bartenders in movies, in her experience.

[snap_time]

"...Haven't heard of Skyline City. And I don't know how much I could explain about the guy's mind, but I can try."
He's divorced because his ex couldn't stand how he thinks. Does that count?

[stalinova_k]

"He's inconsistent," she says. "Sometimes he'll be very sweet, sometimes very insensitive. Sometimes he'll want to go out and do things, sometimes all he wants to do is stay home and watch TV. He acts like an idiot but sometimes? Sometimes he comes up with a brilliant answer to a problem."

[snap_time]

"...That sounds like most guys I know. A little more exaggerated, but."
He's not sure he can offer much in the way of ways to cope. But there's vodka!

[stalinova_k]

Vodka always helps.

"It's normal, then? Is there any way that's best to deal with it, or just... try to ignore it?"

[snap_time]

"Depends on the guy, probably. Some of us can be convinced to stop being flaky."
It can take a good cause (in Larry's case, the threat of losing even part-time custody of his son), but it has been known to happen.