“It seemed a good idea at the time?”
The weary bartender spoke to nobody in particular as he wondered, for the hundredth time, why he had opened the bar in the basement area of a busy shopping mall. Naturally, he had assumed that everything would be like it was on the television series, Cheers. You know, a fun place to work with interesting regulars.
In reality, it was nothing like that. It seemed that TV had lied about the whole experience of owning a bar in the basement.
It was not that it wasn’t busy, because it was definitely a busy environment. It was just that there were no regulars to speak of. Not only that, but the owner had yet to fall in love with an employee. The only people who wanted to work here were people not really bothered about love, as they had already settled down.
Just when he was thinking about packing it all in, and heading off into the catering lark, a young, attractive woman walked down the stairs. “I am here about the job?”
James looked up to the light bulbs, and sent a thank you towards them. Maybe his luck was finely changing.
Written for flash fiction for the purposeful practitioner
AngieTrafford 
Great job. I hope his luck does finally change.
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Hope so too! Thanks for reading.
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Never expect your bar to be the same as the bars on television. LOL! I’m happy that his luck is changing now that a young, attractive woman has come for a job. Hopefully, now, his dream will come true!
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We can but hope! Thanks for reading.
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Odd that he wants to open a bar to find love, but I guess it’s better than speed dating. 😉
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In this day and age, why not? Thanks for reading.
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Sam has found his Diane! Sweet story.
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Thank you! I was trying desperately to remember what names the characters actually had… Sam and Diane 🙂 anyway, thank you for reading.
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You’re welcome!
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I love how you’ve shown his disappointment. I think he deserves a bit of luck 🙂
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He definitely deserves a change of luck.Thanks for reading.
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It looks like his luck is about to change. If nothing else, she will probably help bring in some regular customers and he may get acquainted with one of them. He has a chance of it anyway. Great story. 🙂
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Hope it does, and the bar becomes everything he hoped for! Thanks for reading.
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Things could be looking up? Thanks so much for participating this week. Hope to see you for Week #3!
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Let’s hope it’s looking up! Thanks for reading.
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