I like dive bars now that I'm older and married because you don't have to worry about people going there to hook up. It's mostly just about the cheap booze. And the bathrooms are always gross.

What do you consider your local, amych? If I went to bars anymore, mine would probably be Jo and Joe's or The Federal. Actually, when I do go to bars anymore that's where I go.

I had a doctor's appointment and just went home instead of back to work. I only sloped off on 45 minutes - that's okay, right?

I like neighbourhood bars if it means I don't have to drive. But I don't really have one. Now I want dive bars.

I had California rolls, spicy tuna rolls, and salmon mango rolls. They really need better mango, but I'm good and full.

So the bar on Center Street where they don't have windows, the door has an industrial lock, and they used to have strippers would be a dive bar, where as the bar section at Applebee's and Red Robin would be the pick-up joint (it's certainly fun to be sitting to the side and watch the young-and-desperates trying to attract each others' attention.)

I think ita convinced me to go get sushi. I bet they won't have Mango rolls though.

Good call. OK, then I question Sue's liking of neighborhood bars as a category, until she qualifies the type of neighborhood.

I guess my typical neighborhood bars are unpretentious, probably pretty working class bars. But not necessarily dives.

I knew you were a Gus' Pub regular!

I haven't been in eons! I loved the El Strado. Which was my neighborhod bar, and a huge dive until it burned down. (Which really, answers Jesse's question above.)

This is my local, Friar Tuck's, which falls somewhere on the midpoint between neighborhood and dive.

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No fair.

I was at Divine Bar just last night and someone else was picking up the tab.

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So they charged you nearly three thousand dollars, but didn't actually apply it to what you owed them? Wow, I think that's called "stealing".

I'm being glib. But that's quite a startling coincidence -- "Not only did we charge you a huge amount of money, but now we can't find it. Sorry!"